Showing posts with label Fields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fields. Show all posts
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Akins Hotel “on the Square” and the People Who Operated It

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Akins Hotel on-the-square, about 1950 Perhaps many remember the days when the Akins Hotel “on the Square” in Blairsville operated in its he...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Militia Districts in Union County

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The state of Georgia is divided into 159 counties. Within each county are further subdivisions called Militia Districts. Union County is div...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Early Settlers--Jesse Fields Family

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In 1837 Jesse and Catherine Fields moved from North Carolina to Union County, Georgia. The 1840 and 1850 census records of the county can be...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

A Look at Owltown

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Travel Highway 129/19 south from the old courthouse square in Blairsville and you will come to the Owltown District of Union County lying ar...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Dr. Thomas Newton Berry, Mountain Doctor

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"If the hat fits, wear it!" might well have been the advice to young medical student Claude Hemphill III from his grandmother, Mrs...
Thursday, August 3, 2006

Civil War's effect on Mary Elizabeth Fields Smith Foster

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In looking back on the Civil War, we often focus on the men who went away to war and its effect on them. But the women and children who were...
Thursday, July 6, 2006

Standing tall like the hills, a tribute to Cecil Woodrow Collins

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"God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!" These words ending Arthur Guiterman's poem, Hills could well descr...