The Road to Georgia Marble: How the Federal Road Led to Discovering Georgia's Marble Industry

by Bill Cagle

Overview

The history of Georgia's marble industry is a much more complicated tale than meets the eye. It begins with the construction of a road built through Cherokee land, leading to the removal of the tribes of Native Americans. From there, the story weaves through the establishment of a state, three wars, the Great Depression, all the way to the present.

Bill Cagle's unique connection to the town and company that established the marble industry, as well as his experience working with historical societies and years of studying this history, makes him the expert on all things Georgia marble. The Road to Georgia Marble is an informative and concise history on Georgia's marble quarries and the company that created a monopoly on them. Cagle shows through his own words, as well as photographs and documents collected, how marble went from a rock found underneath the soil to a booming industry coveted by so many.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162404576
Publisher:	BookLogix
Publication date:	08/18/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Bill Cagle is a sixth-generation resident of Pickens/Cherokee County, Georgia. He has always had a love of American and Georgia history, and became president of the Pickens Historical Society in May of 2018. Bill has given several lectures on the history of Georgia’s marble industry, most recently to the Captain James Kell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Tellus Science Museum, and Cherokee Historical Society.
His family ties to the Georgia Marble Company go back to the 1920s, when his grandfather began working in the quarries as a water boy. His grandfather Homer Walker retired as foreman at the Tate quarry in 1976 with over forty years of service. Several other relatives of Bill worked at Georgia Marble Company over the years, including his great-grandfather Ed Satterfield, his uncles, his mother-in-law and her father, and both of her grandfathers. He has fond memories of his grandfather taking him to the quarry when he was a young boy and hearing stories told about the workers and of Colonel Sam Tate.
Bill is married to his wife Thelma (Bay) of thirty years and has two children: Katie, age twenty-five, and Nathan, age twenty-one. He has been employed for over thirty years as a senior salesman in the construction industry and currently resides in Jasper, Georgia.