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I miss my father terribly. Dear Dad, It’s been less than a year since you’ve left us. Almost a year, and it still feels like yesterday....

The Curious Origin of the Goblin Goblin - early 14c., “a devil, incubus, mischievous and ugly fairy,” from Norman French gobelin (12c.,...

I’ve been living in Louisiana for over three years now. There are two seasons here, hot and hotter. There is water here; brackish,...

Map from an early Tate Mountain Estates Publication (early 30's) Aerial photograph of the area with notable locations (1949) In 1930...

The Whittington Family only lived in the land that is part of Bent Tree for a little over a decade. Where did they go after they left?...

For 40 years the Whittington Home occupied part of the land where the sixth hole of the Bent Tree golf course is. Was this house the...

Sallie Doss' chimney is the stuff of legend When you think of Sallie Doss, what comes to mind? She was a widowed landowner that bought...

Did you know that Frank Spratlin, father of Bent Tree's developer H. Dean Spratlin, helped build a radio tower for Georgia Tech on Burnt...

High atop Rich Mountain there is a half acre site with 95 stacks of Indian rock piles. Ancient Sites within Pickens County Pretribal...

Here's a poem about the burning of the Connahaynee Lodge. Mountains, sky, field and rocks Timbers and nails, woolen socks Paths and...