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John W. Henley was born March 26, 1852, in Dahlonega - one year before Pickens County was formed. While attending the North Georgia Agricultural College, at the age of 23, Henley walked through Jasper on his journey from Dahlonega to Resaca for a teaching assignment. The following year, he came back to Jasper to teach school at Jasper First Baptist Church (NOTE: there were no Public Schools in Jasper in 1876.) He opened the Jasper Institute (a private school at the time) i

The Great Depression of 1929 caused massive hardships across the United States of America. In response to the dire economic situation, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a series of public works programs designed to employ thousands of Americans in different areas of infrastructure, agriculture, and forestry-related jobs. For nine years, the Civilian Conservation Corps changed the American landscape by building fire towers, fire brakes, roads, and planting trees.

The Late Great Professor Perrow By Chris Feldt “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.“ - Henry David Thoreau Eber Carle Perrow, grandfather of Pickens County residents Janet Vardaman and Margo Austin, was born on December 7th, 1880 in Tye River, Virginia. When he was eight-years-old, he moved with his p