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The portrait of Col. Sam Tate is displayed in the Tate High School On May 23, 1926, the citizens of Tate presented a stately portrait of Col. Sam Tate by Charles F. Naegle at the Tate High School. A large group of the Tate citizenry, Tate family members, and workers from Georgia Marble attended the presentation at the Tate High School. The portrait was commissioned by funds raised by the residents of Tate and the Tate family themselves. The following text contains the speech

Colonel Sam Tate was remembered in the Pickens Progress by journalist Margaret Shannon from the Atlanta Journal Constitution as having traveled to the Taj Mahal in India and returning with a snow white piece of marble that perfectly matched the marble found in the Tate quarries. The article mentions Col. Tate's travels to the Taj Mahal in India and returning with a snow white piece of marble that matched the Tate marble. A picture of the Taj Mahal from Tate's visit. Sam also

On March 11 , 1927, Col Sam Tate boarded the S.S. Homeric, a White Star Line ocean liner. He crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Southampton, England eight days later. Col. Tate visited England and Scotland before heading to Monaco, Pompeii, and Egypt. His return voyage for New York departed on March 30, 1927 and he arrived on April 7, 1927. According to the Pickens Progress, dated April 14, 1927, it took him two days to return to Tate on Saturday the 9th. The S.S. Homer

By the late 1890s North Georgia virtually extinguished all its deer population. Overhunting, not disease, was the cause of their downfall. And as the stories go, it wasn't until the "Barefoot Ranger" Arthur Woody brought in 5 deer from North Carolina circa 1927-1928 to the Rock Creek Refuge near Suches and Hightower Gap, that deer began to come back. By the 1940s, the work paid off and controlled hunts were offered by the State of Georgia. Arthur Woody, the "Barefoot Range

In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later, Pickens County was officially formed. After the Civil War, the Tate family was operating a sawmill on Long Swamp Creek in the section that is colloquially called Pendley Creek. At the time, a main road came north from Tate and bisected the old Dawsonville Jasper Highway (Cove Road) before heading directly to the sawmill. Afterward, the road