Tragedy and Triumph: A North Georgia History Compendium

What we know and love as Pickens County was a magical place, literally from its physical beginnings. Located between chains of the oldest mountains in the world,

some scenes there have changed little in many thousands of years, even when sabretooth tigers roamed this land....

The past of this land and its people became as lost as its gold and silver mines, its prehistoric past, or even the origins of its most colorful names like Long Swamp, Price Creek, and Talking Rock. The late Reverend Ch...