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Pike County Courthouse

Pike County Courthouse

The Pike County Courthouse, designed in the Romanesque revival and colonial revival styles, was built in Zebulon in 1895. It is the county's third courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Pike County Sawmill

Pike County Sawmill

Workers load logs for transport at a sawmill in Pike County, circa 1910. The timber industry continues to be an important economic activity in Pike County, which was created by the state legislature in 1822.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Tunnel Hill

Tunnel Hill

Tunnel Hill, a city in Whitfield County, was named for the 1,477-foot railroad tunnel exacavated through the Chetoogeta Ridge in 1848-49. The city served in 1864 as a winter camp for General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate troops during the Civil War.
Photograph by Ethan Geer
Whitfield County Courthouse

Whitfield County Courthouse

The Whitfield County Courthouse, located in Dalton, was completed in 2006. Designed in the modern style, the structure incorporates the previous courthouse, which was built on the site in 1961.
Photograph by Jimmy Emerson, DVM
Crown Cotton Mill

Crown Cotton Mill

Crown Cotton Mill No. 2, located on Chattanooga Avenue in Dalton, is pictured in the late 1920s. Established in 1884, Crown Cotton Mill brought much-needed economic activity to Whitfield County and by 1916 employed 1,000 workers.

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Mill Houses

Mill Houses

Mill houses line a street in Dalton, circa 1930. The carpet and textile industries in the city began in the late nineteenth century with the tufted bedspreads of Catherine Evans Whitener and by the 1940s had developed into a mechanized industry in Whitfield County.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Wayne County Courthouse

Wayne County Courthouse

The Wayne County Courthouse, designed in the Romanesque revival style, was completed in 1903. Located in Jesup, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Altamaha River

Altamaha River

Kayakers paddle down a stretch of the Altamaha River. The river played an integral role in the county's timber industry during the early nineteenth century as a means for transporting logs to the coast.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
Altamaha River, Darien

Altamaha River, Darien

Although the Darien economy is dependent on tourism, many locals continue to make a living through offshore fishing and shrimping.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
Hickory Hill

Hickory Hill

Hickory Hill, pictured circa 1910, was the home of noted senator and publisher Thomas E. Watson. Located in Thomson, the historic home, renovated to its 1920s appearance, is open to the public for tours by appointment.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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McDuffie County Courthouse

McDuffie County Courthouse

The McDuffie County Courthouse, located in Thomson, was built in 1872. Major renovations to the courthouse, the county's first, were made in 1934 and 1970.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Rock House

Rock House

Rock House, built in 1785 near the Quaker community of Wrightsborough in McDuffie County, is considered to be the oldest standing building in Georgia with its original architecture intact.
Image from Jimmy Emerson, DVM

Old Wilkes County Courthouse

Old Wilkes County Courthouse

The old courthouse in Wilkes County, pictured circa 1890, was constructed in 1817 and served until 1904.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Wilkes County Courthouse

Wilkes County Courthouse

The Wilkes County Courthouse, completed in 1904, is designed with a Richardsonian Romanesque influence. Located in Washington, the courthouse is the county's second.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Wilkes County Cotton

Wilkes County Cotton

A wagon loaded with cotton, pictured circa 1900, stands on West Main Street in Washington, the seat of Wilkes County. Cotton was a major cash crop in the county throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, ending with the boll weevil invasion.
Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #wlk011.

Wilcox County Courthouse

Wilcox County Courthouse

The Wilcox County Courthouse, built in Abbeville in 1903, is designed in the neoclassical revival style. It is the county's second courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Wilcox County Workers

Wilcox County Workers

Workmen in Wilcox County, pictured circa 1915, stand on white-oak barrel staves, which were shipped overseas for use in whiskey barrels.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
wlc005.

Joseph Wheeler

Joseph Wheeler

General Joseph Wheeler, born near Augusta, commanded U.S. volunteers in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Wheeler also served during the Civil War and the Philippine Insurrection, and authored several books on military and civil subjects. Wheeler County, in central Georgia, is named in his honor.
From The Conflict with Spain and Conquest of the Philippines, by H. F. Keenan
Wheeler County Courthouse

Wheeler County Courthouse

The Wheeler County Courthouse, built in Alamo in 1917, is designed in the neoclassical revival style. Restored in 1961, it is the county's second official courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Train Passengers

Train Passengers

Passengers pose for a photograph, circa 1901, at Gallemore, a community in Twiggs County located between Macon and Danville. Railroad construction played a key role in the settlement patterns of Twiggs County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Twiggs County Courthouse

Twiggs County Courthouse

The Twiggs County Courthouse, located in Jeffersonville, was completed in 1904. Designed in the Romanesque revival style, the courthouse was renovated in 1979 and expanded between 1996 and 2003.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Byron Depot

Byron Depot

The Byron depot has been restored and now serves as a museum housing photographs and other memorabilia of the city's history.
Courtesy of .
Peach Harvest

Peach Harvest

Harvesting peaches in Peach County, the self-proclaimed "Peach Capital of the World."
Courtesy of , Photograph by Andrew Thomas Lee.
Peach Blossom Festival

Peach Blossom Festival

Queen Elizabeth Joyner rides a float from Americus–Sumter County in the Peach Parade, held during Fort Valley's Peach Blossom Festival in the mid-1920s. Fort Valley is the seat of Peach County, the self-proclaimed "Peach Capital of the World."

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Peach County Courthouse

Peach County Courthouse

The Peach County Courthouse, built in 1936, was designed in the colonial revival style. The courthouse, located in Fort Valley, was expanded in 1970 and again in the 1990s.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Fort Valley State University

Fort Valley State University

Fort Valley State University, located in Peach County, is one of ten historically Black colleges and universities in the state. Since the advent of the HOPE scholarship program in 1993, enrollment by Georgia students at historically Black schools in other states has decreased.
Courtesy of .
Lincoln County Courthouse

Lincoln County Courthouse

Built in 1915, the Lincoln County Courthouse is designed in the neoclassical revival style. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the courthouse is the third to be built in Lincolnton, the county seat.
Courtesy of Don Bowman

Mulberry CME Church

Mulberry CME Church

Mulberry Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1873 and offered church services and a school to Black residents of Lincolnton, the seat of Lincoln County. A congregation of approximately 200 members continues to meet in the church.
Courtesy of Lincolnton-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce
Treutlen County Courthouse

Treutlen County Courthouse

The Treutlen County Courthouse, built in Soperton in 1920, is designed in the neoclassical revival style. The county's original courthouse, it was renovated in 1976 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Photograph by Jimmy Emerson, DVM

Telfair County Courthouse

Telfair County Courthouse

The Telfair County Courthouse, built in 1934, is designed in the colonial revival style. It is the second courthouse to be built in McRae, which became the county seat in 1871. At least two other courthouses were built during the nineteenth century in Telfair County's first seat, Jacksonville.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
McLeod Hotel

McLeod Hotel

The McLeod Hotel, pictured circa 1890, was located in Lumber City, which boasted the largest sawmill in the South at the time of its incorporation in 1889. Today Lumber City is one of six incorporated cities in Telfair County.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Glennville Depot

Glennville Depot

A Register and Glennville train, pictured in 1906, stops at the depot in Glennville, today the largest city in Tattnall County. The R&G Railroad was renamed the East Georgia Railway in 1914.

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Tattnall County Courthouse

Tattnall County Courthouse

The Tattnall County Courthouse, built in Reidsville in 1902, was most recently renovated in 1991. Designed with a Second Empire influence, the courthouse is the county's third.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Tattnall County Sawmill

Tattnall County Sawmill

Workers, pictured circa 1910, pose at the sawmill of Frank Southwell near Mendes, in Tattnall County. The largely agricultural economy of the county in the nineteenth century supported a number of mills, many of which were built by 1849.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
tat054.

Gordonia-Alatamaha State Park

Gordonia-Alatamaha State Park

Gordonia-Alatamaha State Park, located in Tattnall County, is named for the endangered Gordonia bay tree, a relative of the rare Franklin tree discovered in 1765 by John and William Bartram. The park offers facilities for fishing, boating, and camping, as well as an eighteen-hole golf course.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
Georgia Historical Commission

Georgia Historical Commission

The Georgia Historical Commission gained national recognition as a pioneer in state historic preservation. The commission erected some 1,800 historical markers. This marker designates the site of the Cedar Creek Primitive Baptist Church, established in 1813 in Tattnall County.
Courtesy of .
Old Fayette County Courthouse

Old Fayette County Courthouse

Constructed in 1825, the original Fayette County Courthouse, pictured in the late 1880s, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the oldest courthouse in Georgia. The clock tower was added to the structure in 1888.
Courtesy of Fayette County Historical Society
Courthouse Bench

Courthouse Bench

Fayette County's first courthouse (in use from 1825 until 1965) is the oldest county courthouse in the State of Georgia. Today the building houses the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce and the Fayette County Development Authority.
Image from Jimmy Emerson, DVM

Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House

Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House

The Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House in Fayetteville, designed in the Greek revival style, was built in 1855 by John Stiles Holliday, the uncle of "Doc" Holliday. The city bought the home in 1999, and following renovations, the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum opened to the public in 2003.
Image from Cdrcody
Old Fayette County Courthouse

Old Fayette County Courthouse

The Old Fayette County courthouse in 2015. Today, this building is used as office space for several organizations, including the Fayette County Development Authority. The Fayette County Superior Court is located at One Center Drive in Fayetteville.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Lula Falls

Lula Falls

Lula Falls and Lula Lake, in Walker County near Lookout Mountain, are protected by the Lula Lake Land Trust. More than 4,000 acres, which lie within the Rock Creek watershed, are owned by the trust.
Image from Rock/Creek

Lee and Gordon’s Mills

Lee and Gordon’s Mills

Lee and Gordon's Mills, pictured between 1900 and 1915, was a saw- and gristmill built during the 1830s in Walker County. The mill continued to operate until 1967, and during the 1990s it was restored as a Civil War-era museum.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Walker County Courthouse

Walker County Courthouse

The Walker County Courthouse in LaFayette, completed in 1919, was designed in the Beaux-Arts classical and Italian Renaissance revival styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Warren County Courthouse

Warren County Courthouse

The Warren County Courthouse, built in 1910 and renovated in 2000, is located in Warrenton and designed in the neoclassical revival style. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, the courthouse is the county's third.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Beall Springs Hotel

Beall Springs Hotel

Visitors gather in 1908 outside the Beall Springs Hotel, a popular resort destination in Warren County during the early twentieth century. Built around a mineral springs, the town of Beall Springs developed after the state acquired the springs and surrounding land in 1773.
Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, # wrr001.

Roberts-McGregor House

Roberts-McGregor House

The Roberts-McGregor House in Warrenton, the seat of Warren County, was a two-story stuccoed brick home built in 1835. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and was later demolished.
Courtesy of Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, University of Georgia, Hubert B. Owens Collection, #Box 45.
Turner County Courthouse

Turner County Courthouse

The Turner County Courthouse, built in 1907, is the only recorded courthouse in the county's history. Located in Ashburn, it is designed in the neoclassical revival style.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Shingler Home

Shingler Home

The home of J. S. Shingler, pictured in 1918, is located in the historic Shingler Heights neighborhood of Ashburn, the seat of Turner County.
Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, # tur007.

Towns County Courthouse

Towns County Courthouse

The Towns County Courthouse, built in 1964, is designed in the modern style. Located in Hiawassee, it is the county's third courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman

Lake Chatuge

Lake Chatuge

Lake Chatuge, a 7,050-acre reservoir, was created when the Tennessee Valley Authority dammed the Hiwassee River in 1941. It is located in Towns County, in the north Georgia mountains.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

Taliaferro County Courthouse

Taliaferro County Courthouse

The Taliaferro County Courthouse, built in 1902, is designed in the High Victorian style. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it is the county's second courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall, the mansion of Georgia governor Alexander Stephens, forms the centerpiece of the A. H. Stephens Historic Park in Taliaferro County. The interior of the home, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, is open to the public.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
A. H. Stephens Historic Park

A. H. Stephens Historic Park

The A. H. Stephens Historic Park, in Crawfordville, is part of the Georgia state park system. The park includes Alexander Stephens's restored home, Liberty Hall, as well a museum containing Civil War artifacts.
Courtesy of , Photograph from Georgia State Parks.
Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall in Taliaferro County, home of Alexander H. Stephens, is pictured in 1936.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, #HABS GA,133-CRAWV,1--2.
Woody Lake

Woody Lake

Woody Lake is located near the rural community of Suches in Union County, which continues to operate the Woody Gap School, one of the few remaining rural schools in the state to survive several rounds of consolidation.
Image from John Getchel

Union County Courthouse

Union County Courthouse

The Union County Courthouse, located in Blairsville, was built in 1978 as an annex to the Union County Office Building, which was constructed in 1976. The county's fourth courthouse, it is designed in the modern style.
Photograph by John Trainor
Blood Mountain

Blood Mountain

Blood Mountain, with an altitude of 4,458 feet, is the highest point along the Georgia section of the Appalachian Trail. It is located in Union County.
Image from Lily S

Brasstown Bald

Brasstown Bald

Visitors to Brasstown Bald, the highest elevation in Georgia, can view four states. The mountain is partly in Union County and partly in Towns County.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
Old Union County Courthouse

Old Union County Courthouse

The Old Union County Courthouse, constructed in 1899, served as the county's courthouse until 1971. The building, which today houses the Union County Historical Society, was renovated by local volunteers and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Image from Jimmy Emerson, DVM

Toombs County Courthouse

Toombs County Courthouse

The Toombs County Courthouse, built in Lyons in 1964, is designed in the modern style.
Photograph by OZinOH
Ice Plant

Ice Plant

C. E. Adams's ice plant, pictured in the 1940s, was located in Vidalia, a community in Toombs County. During the years of World War II (1941-45), a number of new businesses sprang up in Vidalia to support a newly built U.S. Army Air Force field.
Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #tom002.

Vidalia Onions

Vidalia Onions

Vidalia onions were first cultivated by Mose Coleman, a farmer in Toombs County, during the 1930s and today represent one of the county's most important commodities. The crop is named for the community of Vidalia, which is located in Toombs County and known as the "Sweet Onion Capital of the World."
Image from UGA CAES/Extension

Toombs County Farming

Toombs County Farming

Vidalia onions grow in Toombs County, one of the counties served by an extension office of the Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Project of Fort Valley State University.
Courtesy of , Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
Blackshear Depot

Blackshear Depot

The Blackshear railroad depot in Pierce County, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, houses the chamber of commerce as well as the county's Heritage Museum and genealogical library. The depot was built in 1902.
Courtesy of John Walker Guss and Pierce County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
Pierce County Courthouse

Pierce County Courthouse

The Pierce County Courthouse, located in Blackshear, was constructed in 1902 and remodeled in 1970. Designed in the neoclassical revival style, the courthouse is the county's third. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Cotton Warehouse

Cotton Warehouse

A warehouse in Pierce County stores bales of cotton, one of the major crops grown in the county during the nineteenth century. The boll weevil infestation of the 1920s, however, caused many Pierce County farmers to switch from cotton to tobacco cultivation.
Courtesy of John Walker Guss and Pierce County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
Satilla River

Satilla River

The Satilla River, pictured near Blackshear, the seat of Pierce County, circa 1925.
Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, # prc012.

Brewton-Parker College

Brewton-Parker College

Brewton-Parker College is a four-year institution affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention. Built in 1904, the same year as the school's founding, Gates Hall, pictured, is the only original building still standing on the college's main campus, which is located in Mount Vernon.
Courtesy of Terry Gaston, Brewton-Parker College
Richard Montgomery

Richard Montgomery

Richard Montgomery, pictured in an engraving made around 1777, was a brigadier general in the Continental Army who was killed in Quebec in 1775. Montgomery County, in east central Georgia, is named in his honor.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Montgomery County Courthouse

Montgomery County Courthouse

The Montgomery County Courthouse, designed in the neoclassical revival style, was built in 1907. Located in Mount Vernon, the courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Renovations to the building were completed in 1992.
Photograph by OZinOH
East and West Railroad Construction

East and West Railroad Construction

The East and West Railroad, built between Cartersville and Cedartown around 1900, is one of several railroads that came to Polk County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Polk County Courthouse

Polk County Courthouse

The Polk County Courthouse, designed in the stripped classical style, was built in Cedartown in 1951. It is the county's third courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman

Eugene Talmadge Rally

Eugene Talmadge Rally

A crowd is gathered for a 1946 Eugene Talmadge political rally in Cedartown, Polk County.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
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Hiram Colored School

Hiram Colored School

Hiram Colored School in Paulding County was built by the Rural School Building Program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund in 1930. The Rosenwald schools, which offered an education to African American students, were built throughout the South from 1912 to 1932.
Courtesy of .
Paulding County Farmer

Paulding County Farmer

Jacob Searight Freeman, pictured circa 1927, was a cotton farmer in Paulding County. Agriculture has played an integral role in the county's economy since the nineteenth century.

Courtesy of , Vanishing Georgia, #
pld015-95.

Paulding County Courthouse

Paulding County Courthouse

The Paulding County Courthouse, located in Dallas, was built in 1892 and is designed in the Queen Anne style. The structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and a three-story annex was added in 1990. It is the county's third courthouse.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Oak Hill School

Oak Hill School

The students of Oak Hill School, a one-room school in Paulding County, gather with their teacher, Ella Louise Babb, for a photograph in 1904. Similar schools opened around the county early in the twentieth century.

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Ideal Railroad Depot

Ideal Railroad Depot

A railroad depot is pictured in Ideal, in Macon County.
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Macon County Courthouse

Macon County Courthouse

The Macon County Courthouse in Oglethorpe, built in 1894, is an example of the Romanesque revival style. It is the county's third courthouse, and the second to be built in Oglethorpe, which became the county seat in 1856. The first seat of Macon County was Lanier.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Andersonville Cemetery

Andersonville Cemetery

The cemetery at Andersonville Prison, the most notorious prison camp of the Civil War, was designated a national cemetery after the war ended. In 1998 the Andersonville National Historic Site, in Macon County, opened the National Prisoner of War Museum, which is dedicated to all U.S. prisoners of war.
Image from Ken Lund

Great Beaver Creek Duck Race

Great Beaver Creek Duck Race

Rubber ducks race down Beaver Creek during the 2005 Beaver Creek Festival, held each fall in Montezuma, one of the largest cities in Macon County. The festival celebrates the recovery of the city following the 1994 flooding of the Flint River.
Photograph by Camille Bielby

Wrightsville Depot

Wrightsville Depot

The Wrightsville railroad depot, located in the seat of Johnson County, was built in 1900 by the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad. Pictured circa 1915, the depot was restored duringthe 1990s and today houses the Wrightsville–Johnson County Chamber of Commerce and the Johnson County Development Authority.

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Johnson County Courthouse

Johnson County Courthouse

The Johnson County Courthouse, built in 1895, is the county's second courthouse. Designed in the Romanesque revival and colonial revival styles, the building was remodeled in 1938 and restored in 1996.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Nannie Lou Warthen Institute

Nannie Lou Warthen Institute

The Nannie Lou Warthen Institute, pictured circa 1900, was founded in 1888 as a district high school in Johnson County by the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the early 1900s the school received a charter and became Warthen College, which later closed.

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Calhoun County Farm

Calhoun County Farm

Workers prepare to plow a field on Will J. Bruner's Calhoun County farm in 1932. Although the number of small farms in the county has decreased over the years, more than 50 percent of Calhoun County is designated as prime farmland by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Calhoun County Courthouse

Calhoun County Courthouse

Built in 1935, the Calhoun County Courthouse, located in Morgan, is the third in the county's history. Designed in the colonial revival style, the courthouse was renovated in 1972.
Courtesy of Don Bowman
Gopher Tortoise

Gopher Tortoise

Among several endangered species found in Calhoun County is the gopher tortoise, the state reptile of Georgia. The tortoise is identified as a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Gopher Tortoise

Gopher Tortoise

The gopher tortoise is the official state reptile. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region 4/24/2002
Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region 4/24/2002

Mulberry Depot

Mulberry Depot

The Mulberry depot in Jackson County is pictured circa 1910.

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Cotton Weighing

Cotton Weighing

Bales of cotton are weighed, circa 1904, in Commerce, one of several incorporated cities in Jackson County. Because the town was an important center for the cotton market early in the twentieth century, residents changed its name from Harmony Grove to Commerce in 1904.

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Jackson County Courthouse

Jackson County Courthouse

The Jackson County Courthouse in Jefferson, designed in the classical modern style, was completed in 2004. It is the county's fifth courthouse.
Photograph by Jimmy Emerson, DVM
Pendergrass Depot

Pendergrass Depot

The train depot in Pendergrass, pictured in 1908, was renovated in the 1990s and today houses the Pendergrass City Hall, as well as a community center. Pendergrass is an incorporated city in Jackson County.

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Chateau Elan

Chateau Elan

Almost 200 acres of vineyards at Chateau Elan, a winery in Braselton, are planted with Vitis vinifera varieties and French-American hybrids. Chateau Elan produces an average of 40,000 cases of wine annually.
Courtesy of Gerard Krewer
Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta, a 2.54-mile, 12-turn road-racing course in Braselton, is a major tourist attraction in Jackson County. The venue, part of the Panoz Motor Sports Group, offers a variety of motor-sport events, including sports car, motorcycle, and kart racing.
Image from Osajus Photography