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Track Rock Petroglyph 3

While it is difficult to specifically identify many of the carvings, the following figures have been positively identified. Can you find these symbols? Human Figures Human Foot Bear Track Bird...

While it is difficult to specifically identify many of the carvings, the following figures have been positively identified. Can you find these symbols? Human Figures Human Foot Bear Track...

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Track Rock Petroglyph 2

Petroglyphs are carvings in stone made by native people. The carvings in track rock were created by different people over many years. This is why it is common for carvings to overlap. Each carving...

Petroglyphs are carvings in stone made by native people. The carvings in track rock were created by different people over many years. This is why it is common for carvings to overlap. Each...

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Track Rock Petroglyph 1

Track rock gap is one of the most significant rock art sites in the southeastern United States. It consists of six table sized soapstone boulders, containing hundreds of symbols and figures. The...

Track rock gap is one of the most significant rock art sites in the southeastern United States. It consists of six table sized soapstone boulders, containing hundreds of symbols and figures....

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Byron Herbert Reece

Renowned Appalachian poet, novelist, and farmer, Byron Herbert Reece lived most of his life near this site. Here he composed, to critical acclaim, four volumes of poetry and two novels, Better a...

Renowned Appalachian poet, novelist, and farmer, Byron Herbert Reece lived most of his life near this site. Here he composed, to critical acclaim, four volumes of poetry and two novels, Better...

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Blue Star Memorial

Blue Star Memorial By-Way A tribute to the Armed Forces of America Blairsville Garden Club, National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...

Blue Star Memorial By-Way A tribute to the Armed Forces of America Blairsville Garden Club, National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...

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Trackrock Gap

The road leading south crosses Trackrock Gap, two miles from here. Soapstone boulders in the gap are covered with tracks, symbols, and patterns carved in the rocks by primitive man. The gap was...

The road leading south crosses Trackrock Gap, two miles from here. Soapstone boulders in the gap are covered with tracks, symbols, and patterns carved in the rocks by primitive man. The gap was...

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Brasstown Bald

The high rounded peak to the south with lookout tower is Brasstown Bald or Mount Enotah, the highest mountain in Georgia 4,748 [Sic] feet above sea level. [The correct elevation is 4,784 ft.] Its...

The high rounded peak to the south with lookout tower is Brasstown Bald or Mount Enotah, the highest mountain in Georgia 4,748 [Sic] feet above sea level. [The correct elevation is 4,784 ft.] Its...

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Homesite of Joseph Emerson Brown

Joseph Emerson Brown (1821- 1894), born in Pickens District, South Carolina, moved to Union County, Georgia as a boy. The old Brown home was on the present site of the Woody Gap School, opened in...

Joseph Emerson Brown (1821- 1894), born in Pickens District, South Carolina, moved to Union County, Georgia as a boy. The old Brown home was on the present site of the Woody Gap School, opened...

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Union County

Union County was created by Act of Dec. 3, 1832 from Cherokee. Originally, it contained part of Fannin and Towns Counties. In 1832 there was much discussion over Union and States` rights. John...

Union County was created by Act of Dec. 3, 1832 from Cherokee. Originally, it contained part of Fannin and Towns Counties. In 1832 there was much discussion over Union and States` rights....

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Blood Mountain, Elevation 4458 Ft.-Chattahoochee

In Cherokee mythology the mountain was one of the homes of the Nunnehi or Immortals, the `People Who Live Anywhere,` a race of Spirit People who lived in great townhouses in the highlands of the...

In Cherokee mythology the mountain was one of the homes of the Nunnehi or Immortals, the `People Who Live Anywhere,` a race of Spirit People who lived in great townhouses in the highlands of the...

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Davenport Mountain

Davenport Mountain in view to the east was named for John Davenport who came to this section in 1838. He built his 40 foot long log house 1/2 mi. to the east over the peak of the mountain. It...

Davenport Mountain in view to the east was named for John Davenport who came to this section in 1838. He built his 40 foot long log house 1/2 mi. to the east over the peak of the mountain....

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Track Rock Gap

One of the best-known of the petroglyph, or marked stone, sites in Georgia. The six table-sized soapstone boulders contain hundreds of symbols carved or pecked into their surface. Archaeologists...

One of the best-known of the petroglyph, or marked stone, sites in Georgia. The six table-sized soapstone boulders contain hundreds of symbols carved or pecked into their surface. Archaeologists...

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Arthur Fort, 1750-1833

Arthur Fort, Sr., a representative of Wilkinson County, introduced the Bill in the Georgia Legislature to carve a new county out of Wilkinson County territory which became an Act on December 14,...

Arthur Fort, Sr., a representative of Wilkinson County, introduced the Bill in the Georgia Legislature to carve a new county out of Wilkinson County territory which became an Act on December 14,...

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Battle of Griswoldville

Colonel Charles Colcock Jones, General Hardee's Chief of Artillery. summarized the Battle of Griswoldville: "This engagement, while it reflects great credit upon the gallantry of the Confederate...

Colonel Charles Colcock Jones, General Hardee's Chief of Artillery. summarized the Battle of Griswoldville: "This engagement, while it reflects great credit upon the gallantry of the...

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Rev. Vincent A. Tharp Home (1809)

This historic house, built for Rev. V. A. Tharp by his sons, John and Charnick, with slave labor in 1809, is the oldest known house in Twiggs County, then Wilkinson. The Tharp family, who occupied...

This historic house, built for Rev. V. A. Tharp by his sons, John and Charnick, with slave labor in 1809, is the oldest known house in Twiggs County, then Wilkinson. The Tharp family, who...

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Twiggs County

Twiggs County was created by Act of Dec. 14, 1809 from Wilkinson County. It was named for Gen. John Twiggs (1750-1816), born in Maryland, resident of Burke County, a leader in the Revolution and...

Twiggs County was created by Act of Dec. 14, 1809 from Wilkinson County. It was named for Gen. John Twiggs (1750-1816), born in Maryland, resident of Burke County, a leader in the Revolution...

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Ezekiel Wimberley

Major General Ezekiel Wimberly commanding the Twiggs Militia erected and garrisoned three forts along the Ocmulgee River for frontier protection. Born in Bertie County, North Carolina, September...

Major General Ezekiel Wimberly commanding the Twiggs Militia erected and garrisoned three forts along the Ocmulgee River for frontier protection. Born in Bertie County, North Carolina,...

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Stone Creek Baptist Church-1808

Constituted September 3, 1808, this Church was first located two miles from here on a rocky hill overlooking Stone Creek, a tributary of the Ocmulgee. In 1842 the meetings were moved to an Academy...

Constituted September 3, 1808, this Church was first located two miles from here on a rocky hill overlooking Stone Creek, a tributary of the Ocmulgee. In 1842 the meetings were moved to an Academy...

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Dudley M. Hughes

"Magnolia Plantation" was the home of Dudley Mays Hughes, four times a member of Congress from 1909 to 1917. He was the co-author of the Smith ~ Hughes Vocational Education Bill which was passed...

"Magnolia Plantation" was the home of Dudley Mays Hughes, four times a member of Congress from 1909 to 1917. He was the co-author of the Smith ~ Hughes Vocational Education Bill which was...

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Richland Baptist Church

Richland Baptist Church was constituted Oct 5, 1811 with 4 male and 8 female members. The first pastor was Rev. Micajah Fulghum. In June 1861 the ladies of this church made and presented a...

Richland Baptist Church was constituted Oct 5, 1811 with 4 male and 8 female members. The first pastor was Rev. Micajah Fulghum. In June 1861 the ladies of this church made and presented...

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