Everyone who has driven to the town square has driven by the old Sam Penland Store (currently the Ellijay Florist) on River Street. Sam Penland hails from the same family which started Penland's Orchards. Sam Penland began operating out of the River Street location in 1914 as a merchandise store. Sam Penland and his son in front of the store. The faded mural on the wall shows an advertisement for Ballard's Obelisk Flour. Ballard's Obelisk Flour was produced in Memphis, Tennessee. The...

Many longtime residents of Ellijay have walked to the abandoned railroad trestle of the old Marietta and North Georgia Railroad/Later...

As with most counties in America, Cherokee County has several family cemeteries. Back in the days of the early settlers of a county, in...