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What is a spring house? Watch this video to learn more about this old school refrigeration structure. To learn more about spring houses, click on the following link. northgeorgiahistory.com/post/a-spring-house-in-north-georgia Copyright 2025 CJF Productions

Located near Kingston, Georgia, the Akin Lime Kiln was built in the late 1800s and operated at least until the 1920s. It was used to make quick lime used in construction, agriculture, and other purposes. To learn more about it, please visit: https://www.northgeorgiahistory.com/post/the-akin-lime-kiln Copyright 2025 CJF Productions

In 1894, the Southern Marble Company of Marble Hill, Georgia built a two-mile long water channel/pipeline known, locally referred to as the Ditch. For about 70 years people walked along it on a wooden boardwalk while it was maintained by the marble company. Eventually it fell into disrepair after being abandoned in the 1960s. At its apex, the water from the pipeline was strong enough to strip the paint from a vehicle! To read more about it, please visit: https://www.northgeorgiahistory.com/post/the-southern-marble-company-pipeline-a-k-a-the-ditch Copyright 2025 CJF Productions

The Turniptown Creek Trestle is a marvel of 19th Century engineering. This span is now abandoned and no longer used as a railroad bridge. It is located just north of Ellijay, Georgia near Hwy 515 and Old Northcutt Road. To see it and learn more of the history watch the video. To learn more about the Hook and Eye Railroad, click on the following link: https://www.northgeorgiahistory.com/post/tracing-tracks-through-time-the-the-abandoned-section-of-the-hook-and-eye To see the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad schedule click here: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a0d715_88bd38da022b4f359b9e798019b3e3db~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1682,h_3392,al_c,q_90/a0d715_88bd38da022b4f359b9e798019b3e3db~mv2.webp To see the "Hook" section of the railroad click here: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a0d715_1ea6d06a720c4f1abcbd0445183eeb23~mv2.jpg To see the maps of Jasper and Talking Rock with the 1883 date of the railroad click here: https://www.northgeorgiahistory.com/post/the-lost-maps-of-1883-the-railroad-comes-to-jasper-and-the-creation-of-talking-rock Copyright 2025 CJF Productions

In this episode I visit one of the origin story sites of the name Talking Rock. The Late Reverend Charles Walker wrote about this in his Cherokee Footprints series. While James Mooney felt the name was based on a translation from a Cherokee phrase, others claimed the "talking rock" was a rock from which talks were given. To learn more, visit the following link: https://www.northgeorgiahistory.com/post/the-ancient-council-site-in-talking-rock Copyright 2025 CJF Productions To learn more about the events at Beargrass, visit the following link: https://www.facebook.com/events/24073288129003261?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22user_timeline%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

John's Mill, located in Hinton, in Pickens County, Georgia is a former grist mill built by John Humphreys in 1966 and operated through the 1990s. These days the mill is closed to the public, but for decades people from all over the southeast would visit to have their corn meal ground. John is a treasure and so is his hand built mill. To learn more about John's Mill and its history, please visit the following link: https://www.northgeorgiahistory.com/post/the-history-of-john-s-mill-j-w-dean-s-mill Copyright 2025 CJF Productions

Using topographic maps, aerial photography, trees, plants, and springs to find old structures.

Take a trip back in time to the earliest days of Bent Tree!