A legend in his own time, Robert Toombs was a successful planter and lawyer who led a turbulent career as state legislator, U.S. Congressman and Se...
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This stagecoach inn and plantation home was built around 1815 by James R. Wyly. He strategically located it along the newly constructed Unicoi Turn...
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Originally a military compound and later a trading post, Oconee Station State Historic Site offers both recreational opportunities and a unique loo...
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Twenty years before the 1849 gold rush in California, thousands of prospectors flocked into the Cherokee Nation in north Georgia, marking the true ...
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About Us:Settlers struggled against the harsh backcountry to survive. Cherokee Indians hunted and fought to keep their land. Two towns and a tradin...
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The Saint Aidan's Episcopal Church Cemetery is located by Alpharetta North Park on Cogburn Road. There are no burials, but there ashes from cremati...
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The community takes its name from Bethany Baptist Church. Constituted on December 27, 1850, the church was significant in the settlement of the are...
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About: Hopewell Baptist Church was organized in 1851. We are a member of the Hightower Baptist Association, which is part of the Georgia Southern ...
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In 1834, Thomas Byrd of Hall County paid $400 to purchase Land Lot 403 -- a swath of 40 acres in what was then Cherokee County. Circuit riders ofte...
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Intersection of Bethany Oaks Pointe and Hopewell Road,
Milton, GA
Emerson Cemetery is located off the intersection of Bethany Oaks Pointe and Hopewell Road. All that remains of this cemetery is an old iron fence.&...
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John B. Broadwell was the great-grandson of Jesse Broadwell, an early (1838) settler of the area. Jesse obtained four land lots (160 acres) in Crab...
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The Dinsmore Sawmill was one of at least 30 sawmills in Milton County in the 1940s and 1950s. Some mills were fixed, others were portable so they c...
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