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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29OR_emancipation-wall_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, legally freeing slaves in rebellious states and regions controlled by Union forces. According to oral tradition, E.P. Williams stood on a rock wall surrounding his home to re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29OQ_blacksmith-shop_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
Essential to settlers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, many small farm blacksmith shops dotted the landscape in these hills and valleys. Larger industrial foundries and commercial blacksmith shops were located at intersections of commerce, mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29O9_slave-dwelling_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
The Nacoochee slave cabin is one of only a few slave dwellings to survive in Georgia. Built on a stacked stone foundation and framed with hand-hewn timbers and lumber bearing the telltale marks of a sash saw, it saw for more than 150 years on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NX_slave-garden_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
Many masters allowed their slaves to work a garden patch near their dwellings for personal consumption, to supplement limited rations, or to sell surplus produce to acquire "luxury" items like fish hooks or farm tools. Slaves cultivated …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NN_millstones_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
Quarriers cut millstone blanks from an exposed ledge of gneiss rock adjacent to Mill Rock Branch, a small stream at the upper end of Sautee Valley. They used hardened steel hammers known as mill picks to cut grooves (lands) and ridges to shape the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29N9_cooling-vat_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
Slaves quarried and hand-chiseled this two-ton stone trough. Cool water preserved perishable foods, such as butter, cream and milk, in clay pots on the shelves of this 19th century refrigerator. Slave labor contributed to the settlement of this ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29M9_african-american-heritage-site_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
The African American Heritage Site preserves one of North Georgia's few surviving slave dwellings and interprets the lives of black people in bondage in Appalachia before the Civil War. Framed by 19th century landscaping and displaying antebellum …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29I4_joe-brown-pikes_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
On Sautee Creek just north of here are remains of a dam constructed as part of a grist mill owned by Edwin P. Williams. During the War Between the States, to arm the Home Guard, Gov. Joseph E. Brown had made a great number of pikes, daggers on lon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTCF_nacoochee-valley_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
This valley has long fascinated travelers, writers and artists. It was farmed for centuries by Indians and white men alike. The valley was devastated by Spanish and American gold hunters and timbermen and has been carefully nurtured by prosperous …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTCD_early-trading-post_Sautee-Nacoochee-GA.html
At this point, just north of the safest ford in the Chattahoochee River, the first white settlers in this area built their campfires in 1822. A trading post was soon established on the site and Indians traded gold nuggets and gold-dust to the sett…