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The Georgia General Assembly passed an act on December 5, 1853, to create Pickens County from portions of Cherokee and Gilmer Counties. [3] Pickens received several more land additions from Cherokee (1869) and Gilmer Counties (1858 and 1863); however, several sections of Pickens County have also been transferred to other counties: Dawson County (1857), Gordon County (1860), and Cherokee County ...
The Cagle House is a rare surviving example of a two-story I-house in a rural setting found in the Highlands region of North Georgia. Peter Cagle (the younger b. 1844) and wife, Martha Emeline Carpenter, built their house in c. 1872 with the assistance of Peter's brothers and their father, Martin.
Jasper is located at (34.469127, -84.434039 [7]Georgia State Route 53 passes through the center of Jasper, while Georgia State Routes 5 and 515 bypass the city to its west. GA-5/515 lead north 21 mi (34 km) to Ellijay and south 60 mi (97 km) to Atlanta, via its connection with Interstate 575, which ends just south of the city.
Georgia State Routes 5 and 515 (Zell Miller Mountain Parkway) pass to the west of the city as a four-lane highway, leading north 15 mi (24 km) to Ellijay and southeast 6 mi (10 km) to Jasper, the Pickens County seat. Atlanta is 66 mi (106 km) south via GA-5/515 to Interstate 575 and Interstate 75.
The Georgia Marble Company was founded in 1884 by Samuel Tate. Tate leased out all the land in Pickens County, Georgia, which contained rich Georgia marble.Pickens County has a vein of marble 5 to 7 miles (8.0 to 11.3 km) long, a half mile wide, and up to 2,000 feet (610 m) deep.
Pickens County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Jasper, Georgia, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia. It was designed by Bothwell & Nash and built in 1949. The exterior includes marble from Tate, Georgia. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 2008. It is located at 50 North Main Street.
An 18-year student at Clemson University has been found dead, the Pickens County coroner’s office reported Friday morning. The student was identified as Joseph McPartland, of Roswell, Ga.
People from Pickens County, Georgia (1 C, 5 P) T. Transportation in Pickens County, Georgia (15 P) Pages in category "Pickens County, Georgia"