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

The Mitchell Map Wauchope's Interpretation of the Mitchell Map The Mitchell map of 1755 was the first map to show Long Swamp as a place (albeit, under a different name). The map was compiled from the best sources of information at the time under the direction of the Second Earl of Halifax. The map remained one of the largest and most accurate depictions of North America through the 18th Century. At six and a half feet wide and four and a half feet high, it is a massive map

I am Jake Scudder, a Wilkes County man from Jackson, A Whig and Republican in political conviction, Resting beneath these columns of polished marble Which stand on a hilltop at Diana's Chapel, Rising like a sentinel to guard the treasure tunnel And looking over the river toward Lewis Blackburn - (except from larger writing on Scudder) Jacob McCartney Scudder was born in the last two decades of the 18th Century in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He moved to Georgia as a young