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The Civil War in Talking Rock
On the afternoon of April 2nd, 2025, Pickens County resident Jessica McCabe found a cannonball near the bridge off Swan Bridge road
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Apr 34 min read
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The Howard Plantation of Bartow County
Charles Wallace Howard was born in 1811 in Savannah, Georgia. After graduating from college he attended seminary in Princeton, New...
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Aug 22, 20244 min read
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Into the Wilderness:John Kellogg’s Journey Through Civil War North Georgia
John Azor Kellogg wrote a memoir of the time he spent with the people of north Georgia that his family published after his death. He was...

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Mar 7, 20244 min read
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Pioneer Engineers: The Atherton Brothers In Pickens and Cherokee County, Georgia
Pickens County, in the Appalachian Mountains and one of Georgia's smallest counties in size and population in 1860, existed as an...

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Mar 1, 20242 min read
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Tate's Saw Mill - 1869
In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...
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Feb 27, 20243 min read
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The Georgia Confederate Home Guard
The home guards remain one of the most confusing aspects of the history of the Civil War in Georgia. Family tales and reminiscences...

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Feb 24, 20247 min read
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The Fire-Eater/Diamond Furnace of North Georgia
This blast furnace was built in 1852 in Bartow County off Stamp Creek. Originally called the Union Furnace, its ownership changed hands...
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Feb 20, 20242 min read
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The Night Riders of Pickens County: Part 2 - McCollum's Raiders, A.J. Glenn, and the Covington Hang
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. ...
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Jan 31, 20246 min read
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The Night Riders of Pickens County (Part 1)
During the Civil War and for several decades that followed, criminals and vigilantes from various places around the United States would...
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Jan 30, 20246 min read
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The Keith Plantation of Cherokee County
The Keith Plantation of Cherokee County The overgrown entrance to the Keith Plantation. Note the main house in the background According...
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Jan 26, 20243 min read
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The Murder of Peter Cantrell
Peter Cantrell's grave marker, not at actual site of his murder, placed by Dutch Cantrell of Canton. Located on private property on LL...
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Feb 7, 20231 min read
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