The Wheels of Time and a Day in the Life
Tim Day, a member of the Gartrell/McCravey line recently reached out to me about helping him track down some long-lost relatives. Back...
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- Aug 20
- 3 min
Return to John's Mill: The Surprise Gift
Last summer, John Humphrey and his sons Norman and William, found themselves in unfortunate circumstances. Within two weeks of each...
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- Aug 16
- 2 min
The Forgotten Golf Course of North Georgia
In 1930, in Northeastern Pickens County, Col. Sam Tate opened a 10,000-acre resort for wealthy Atlantans called Tate Mountain Estates. ...
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- Apr 5
- 7 min
The Sundown Counties of Georgia
A history of violence used to protect tradition, and fighting against a centralized economy and power structure can be found in the...
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- Mar 19
- 2 min
Young Potts (part 2)
In a previous post about Young Potts Cemetery, we learned of Young Potts, his emigration to the gold mines of the Dahlonega area, and his...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Mar 11
- 23 min
LIGHT AND THEN POWER: SIXTY YEARS OF A NORTH GEORGIA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CO-OP (2001)
Amicalola Electrical Membership Co-operative began in 1940 as one of the last electrical membership co-ops. Rather than benefiting from...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Into the Wilderness:John Kellogg’s Journey Through Civil War North Georgia
John Azor Kellogg wrote a memoir of the time he spent with the people of north Georgia that his family published after his death. He was...
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- Mar 6
- 2 min
North Georgia History Book Available (Digital and Print)
CLICK HERE TO BUY TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: A COMPENDIUM OF NORTH GEORGIA HISTORY After four years of research and countless hours and...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Mar 5
- 5 min
The First European Settlement of North Georgia and Pickens County in the American Revolution
For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Mar 4
- 11 min
The History of the Woodbridge Inn
The beginnings of Jasper, the Woodbridge inn, and the hospitality industry in Northwest Georgia go back to 1805. In that year, the State...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Mar 2
- 7 min
A Night of Terror: The Whitestone Flood of 1938
April 7, 1938, was one of those fortunately rare days when the weather moved from the back to the front page of newspapers. Savage storms...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Pioneer Engineers: The Atherton Brothers In Pickens and Cherokee County, Georgia
Pickens County, in the Appalachian Mountains and one of Georgia's smallest counties in size and population in 1860, existed as an...
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- Feb 28
- 3 min
Rural Exploration (RUREX): How to Find Historical Sites)
Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer. While you can teach people how to...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Feb 28
- 18 min
THE LOST HISTORY OF AN ALLRED FAMILY OF NORTH GEORGIA
My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their...
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- Feb 27
- 3 min
Tate's Saw Mill - 1869
In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...
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- Feb 26
- 3 min
The Pauper's Home of Pickens County
During the 19th and 20th centuries, many counties in the United States had places where the indigent could live and take shelter. They...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Feb 25
- 5 min
The First European Settlement of North Georgia and Pickens County in the American Revolution
For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Feb 24
- 7 min
The Georgia Confederate Home Guard
The home guards remain one of the most confusing aspects of the history of the Civil War in Georgia. Family tales and reminiscences...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
- Feb 23
- 3 min
The Lost History of Eastern North America’s Ancient Walls
Many millions in eastern North America live within a short distance of amazing ruins as old as two millennia but do not know it....
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- Feb 16
- 3 min
The Tragedies of Steele's Bridge: Both of them.
Most people from Pickens and Dawson County are familiar with the metal span bridge over the Amicalola River. Spanning 80 feet over a...
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