Through Mountain Mists

“Home is where the heart is,” we hear often, and especially at Christmastime. In mind if not in journeying we turn toward home, the place wh...

We didn’t have firecrackers and fireworks popping off that Christmas. In fact, I doubt if we had ever had the spectacular fireworks that som...

The Powell Building named for third administrator of Central State Hospital, Dr. Thophilus O. Powell, commands a central position in the hos...

Here in the mountains of North Georgia our ancestors hail from many countries. Since we become a part of what we have known from previous ge...

First, a correction from last week’s column. Thanks to Wanda Brown Gibson of Blairsville who knows much more about the many Brown family lin...

In last week’s column we looked at the life of Harmon and Sarah Clonginger Brown who were in Union County until where they lived became Town...

As Part 1 and Part 2 of this Brown Family Series indicates, the Browns were a major part of the population of early Union County, and, becau...