Through Mountain Mists

Senior scholar, Loyal Jones, a native of nearby Cherokee County, North Carolina, and for many years director of Appalachian Studies at Berea...

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

In last week's column we revisited the store of Mr. John Andrew Wimpey and his wife, Nellie Jane Duckworth Wimpey. I neglected to write ...

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...

As you gather with family and/or friends for a Thanksgiving Day celebration may you find many things for which to give thanks. In our family...

The work of circuit riding ministers in the early days of settlement in the mountain counties of north Georgia required a person of strong p...

The last column looked at the life and work of the Rev. Thomas M. Hughes (1809-1882), an early Union County settler who was associated with ...

For several weeks now we’ve explored aspects of the Eli Townsend family and its branches. That subject still has many avenues to explore, bu...

Stories abound about those who hoped to make their fortune from gold found in Union County mines. One told by the late Preston Turner and R...