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Lost and Found (The Potter's Fields of North Georgia)
The Poet Bury me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and love. They slew me for I did disparage Therefore Religion, Law, and Marriage. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! Aleister Crowley, infamous poet and black magician of the mid-twentieth Century. Potter's field "piece of ground reserved as a burying place for friendless paupers, unknown persons, and criminals" (1520

Christopher Feldt
Mar 27, 20255 min read
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John Dilbeck and the lost town of Johntown (Dawson County)
1886 Map with Johntown, Georgia John Dilbeck was born in 1787 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Around 1839 he moved to Dawson County (Gilmer at the time) and purchased 160 acres near the present Steve Tate/Faucett Lake area. He acquired Land Lot 160, and Land Lot 129. This was where the area of Johntown sprung up. Upon his death in 1857, the land passed to John L. Grogran, the brother of John Dilbeck's son-in-law. The descendants of the Dilbecks lived near Burnt

Christopher Feldt
Dec 2, 20223 min read
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