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: 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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By the time the first school was established here in 1874, the area had already been settled by several pioneer families. Many of their names appea...
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Circa 1815. Jeremiah Field, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, came with his family to settle in the Cherokee Nation at a site to be known as Fiel...
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This structure served the Birmingham community as one of seven militia district court-houses in Milton County. Rolls were maintained of eligible ma...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Dangar-Fowler house is an example of practical preservation. The original farm house dates from approximately 1890. Freitus and Bessie Dangar p...
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