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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.
Georgia is the only state that still allows sole commissioner county government. As of 2021, seven of the state's 159 counties operate under that system. As of 2021, seven of the state's 159 counties operate under that system.
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.
The original city center is located in Pickens County, but the city limits have recently expanded southward so that more of the city is now located in Cherokee County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km 2 ), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km 2 ), or 0.56%, is covered by water.
People from Pickens County, Georgia (1 C, 5 P) T. Transportation in Pickens County, Georgia (15 P) Pages in category "Pickens County, Georgia"