Living on the Unicoi Road
Helen’s Pioneer Century and Tales From The Georgia Gold Rush
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By Matt Gedney Publisher: Little Star Press/ Pub Date: 1996 Binding: Paperback 183 Pages/ Numerous B & W photos Regular Price: $11.95 YOUR SPECIAL PRICE: $9.85 From its beginning at a long-abandoned and all-but-forgotten pioneer cemetery, this book sets off on a three-centuries-long odyssey through the Helen Valley and the Chattahoochee headwaters. The region was the wild domain of panthers, Indians, traders, and soldiers for a hundred years until the Unicoi Road was begun in 1813. The next century belonged to the pioneers and gold miners whose story is told for the first time in these pages. The tale does not end there, though, for the writer follows the threads of the past to find them still woven into the evolving tapestry of modern life in the beautiful northeast Georgia mountains. |