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bulletLimited watercolor prints by artist John Kollock
bulletJohn Kollock decided to preserve North Georgia the way it was by recreating in watercolor paintings.
bulletGeorgia State Map
bulletA map of all the counties in Georgia with a link to their respective genealogy sites.
bullet Photographs from the Paulownia Plantation of PaulowniaTrees.com
bulletThe Black farm had a large tree with very large leaves. My best guess is that it was a Paulownia.
bulletAmerican Paulownia Association
bulletMore information about the Paulownia.
bulletMark Rieger's Fruit Crop Home Page
bulletThe Black farm had grape vines. They were Scuppernong, a variety of muscadine grapes. Learn more about them from Mark Rieger's web site.
bulletCabbage Patch Kids
bulletXavier Roberts created the Cabbage Patch Kids. William Brewster Burke was Xavier's great-grandfather and is also my great-great-grandfather.
bullet Habersham
bulletHabersham County was created on Dec. 18, 1818, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. This site provided details.
bullet Habersham County Historical Maps
bulletA brief history of Habersham County along with maps showing how it has changed from 1822 to 2001. When White county was formed out of part of Habersham County the Blair Line was used as the county line. Sometime between 1874 and 1883 the county line was moved west to the Chattahoochee River moving what was to become the Black farm land back into Habersham County.
bullet Historical Maps of Georgia
bulletA directory of historical maps of Georgia.
bulletHabersham County Genealogy Site
bulletSeveral useful links on this site. This site seems to be new. It does not have much information yet but still worth the visit.
bullet Sweet Sorghum
bulletTom Black grew sorghum on his farm. Pressed it with a water driven mill and sold the syrup. On this site Keith Kenney tells how it is still being done on Ken Christison's farm in North Carolina.
bulletKen Christison's List of Sweet Sorghum Internet Resources
bulletLinks to the best of what is available on the internet on the subject of sweet sorhgum.
bulletChattanooga Water Powered Cane Mills
bulletInformation about water powered cane mills provided from old catalogs owned by Ken Christison. For pictures of more cane mills click on the Sweet Sorghum link above.
bulletMinnesota Historic Sites: Oliver H. Kelley Farm
bulletWatch sorghum cane being milled at the Kelley Farm in Minnesota every October. Sorghum became an important crop for Northern farmers in the 1860's when Southern sugar became hard to get during the Civil War.
bulletA Brief History of the Cherokee Nation
bulletThe Black farm sets just west on of the border of what was Cherokee Nation the west side as defined in the Treaty of 1818.
bulletTrail of Tears-North Georgia History
bulletIn the 1830's gold was discovered in North Georgia and the Cherokee were forced to move to the Oklahoma Teritories.
bulletKudzu Covered Houses in North Georgia
bulletKudzu, The plant that ate the South.
bulletThe Amazing Story of Kudzu
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bulletThe Blair Society
bullet The Black farm's west fence runs along the Blair Line. It was surveyed in the early 1800's by James Blair as a boundary between Georgia and the Cherokee Nation. There is a marker in Habersham County at the junction of Georgia Highways 115 and 105.
bullet Habersham County Roadside Historical Markers
bulletInformation about Historical Markers in Habersham County.

 

 

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