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In February of 1884, a tornado visited Pickens County and cut a 15-mile path, leaving several residents dead (including the Cagle and other families) A vivid description of the tornado is in the Feb 21, 1884 cover of the Atlanta Constitution. Cagletown began in 1869 and today is known merely as Cagle. Historically it was mostly an agricultural town started by the Cagle family that had first migrated from North Carolina to the Hickory log section of Cherokee County until t