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The foundation pillars of the Conner house/store that washed away on April 7, 1938. April 7, 1938, was one of those fortunately rare days...

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

Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer.  While you can teach people how to...

My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their...

In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...

During the 19th and 20th centuries, many counties in the United States had places where the indigent could live and take shelter. They...

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

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

Many millions in eastern North America live within a short distance of amazing ruins as old as two millennia but do not know it....

This blast furnace was built in 1852 in Bartow County off Stamp Creek. Originally called the Union Furnace, its ownership changed hands...