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The Body In the Well On Tuesday, February 22, 1949, a grey 1947 Chevrolet with a blue top with a sign that read Veteran’s Cab arrived at the Asta Café on Main Street in Jasper. The driver, Earl Holbert, thought it was going to be a short evening. He was right, but not in the way he planned. G. "Earl" Holbert Around 6 p.m. Earl had picked up a passenger at the cafe (inside what is now the Old Mule House building). At 7 p.m. he traveled to Low’s Service Station in Talki

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

On the afternoon of April 2nd, 2025, Pickens County resident Jessica McCabe found a cannonball near the bridge off Swan Bridge road

Pickens County, in the Appalachian Mountains and one of Georgia's smallest counties in size and population in 1860, existed as an...

The home guards remain one of the most confusing aspects of the history of the Civil War in Georgia. Family tales and reminiscences...

During the heart of the Civil War, Pickens County was torn between sides. The flag that flew over the courthouse yard was a Union flag. Yet, many of the residents fought on each side. Many of the Darnell family fought for the North, while those from the Fields side predominantly fought for the South. And while many neighboring counties were far more aligned with the Confederacy, as with Pickens's history with race and slavery, Pickens was more of a mixed bag. There we

During the last two decades of the 19th Century, the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad (MNGR) finally reached Jasper, eventually making its way to Knoxville, Tennessee. Just east of Talking Rock a double reverse curve was built. The purpose was to allow the train to descend the steep terrain coming from Jasper to Talking Rock. This section became known as the “Hook” of the railroad. The ”Hook” as seen on the 1914 Talking Rock Topographic map While this section worked a

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 engineer of the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad Company, F.S. Wallace, drew this map up to demonstrate the lands that were conveyed to help facilitate the passage of the railroad through the town of Jasper. The map is below along with what I could make of the penmanship of the document. {Georgia, {Pickens County: For the purpose of e