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The Myth The folktale goes like this: There's a haunted house in the south of Gilmer County where the owner used to pick up and send his mail. All the kids in Gilmer called it the Elf House. The builder was a lawyer from New York or the Midwest. He retired and moved to North Georgia and built the Elf House so his rejected manuscripts would have a place to land because they wouldn't fit in a regular mailbox. It was said he only lived there for ten years in a small house wi

For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...

For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...

The Mitchell Map Wauchope's Interpretation of the Mitchell Map The Mitchell map of 1755 was the first map to show Long Swamp as a place (albeit, under a different name). The map was compiled from the best sources of information at the time under the direction of the Second Earl of Halifax. The map remained one of the largest and most accurate depictions of North America through the 18th Century. At six and a half feet wide and four and a half feet high, it is a massive map