The portrait of Col. Sam Tate is displayed in the Tate High School On May 23, 1926, the citizens of Tate presented a stately portrait of Col. Sam Tate by Charles F. Naegle at the Tate High School. A large group of the Tate citizenry, Tate family members, and workers from Georgia Marble attended the presentation at the Tate High School. The portrait was commissioned by funds raised by the residents of Tate and the Tate family themselves. The following text contains the speech presented by...

Colonel Sam Tate was remembered in the Pickens Progress by journalist Margaret Shannon from the Atlanta Journal Constitution as having traveled to the Taj Mahal in India and returning with a snow white piece of marble that perfectly matched the marble found in the Tate quarries. The article mentions Col. Tate's travels to the Taj Mahal in India and returning with a snow white piece of marble that matched the Tate marble. A picture of the Taj Mahal from Tate's visit. Sam also traveled to China...

On March 11 , 1927, Col Sam Tate boarded the S.S. Homeric, a White Star Line ocean liner. He crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Southampton, England eight days later. Col. Tate visited England and Scotland before heading to Monaco, Pompeii, and Egypt. His return voyage for New York departed on March 30, 1927 and he arrived on April 7, 1927. According to the Pickens Progress, dated April 14, 1927, it took him two days to return to Tate on Saturday the 9th. The S.S. Homeric arrives in New...