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Roads passing through Clayton—Highways 441/23 and 76 and Warwoman Road—are daily reminders of a distant past when the Appalachians in northeastern Georgia were known as the Cherokee Mountains. And in the land that became Rabun County, the major Cherokee trails, which are now our highways and byways, converged at The Dividings in present-day Clayton. Early explorers and settlers classified the Cherokee into three groupings, depending on their location and dialect: Lower, Midd

The Perseverance Quarry can still be seen on the north side of Cove Road. In the 1850s Summey and Hurlick operated a marble operation...

During the last two decades of the 19th Century, the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad (MNGR) finally reached Jasper, eventually making...

In searching through the archives of deeds at the county, I came across this map of the town of Jasper dated March 5th, 1883. The chief...