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From: "Earnie Breeding" <>
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] CHEROKEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:37:15 -0500
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Canton is miles from Lake Altoona. None of it wqas covered over. there were
small settlements covered, but not Canton. Earnie
Canton Resident
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From: "Dream Builder" <>
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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] CHEROKEE COUNTY, GEORGIA


There are many people in North GA who are of (or claim to be) Cherokee
descent. I believe that part of the original town of Canton was submerged
when Lake Allatoona was built. I had not heard the mine shaft story, though.
I'll have to tell my boyfriend - we fish there often. There are also some
great ghost stories from Cherokee County and I would be interested in
hearing any that people know.

V. Friedman
Waleska, GA


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From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] CHEROKEE COUNTY, GEORGIA


> My great grandfather, Robert Lee Bennett, did some work as a miner in
> Cherokee and Bartow Counties around the turn of the century. I recall my
> grandmother saying (accurately?) that he worked in lime mines. She also
said
> when Lake Altoona was built it covered old mine shafts. When she was a
girl
> (1910) rumor had it that people who swam in Altoona sometimes disappeared
> down the submerged shafts. Grandmother said one or two of her brothers
> worked at the Wyman mines (Bartow County?) which were lime or coal and
were
> owned by relatives of actress Jane Wyman. As far as I know little
significant
> gold was found in Cherokee County. Most was in Lumpkin and White. I live
in
> Dahlonega and own one of the original gold-lottery tracts. I believe the
> Cherokees weren't officially removed until the late 1830's, and those who
> were mixed race and affiliated with white families were able to stay
behind.
> My great great grandfather was born in 1844 Cherokee County and his mother
> was (reportedly) from a local Cherokee Indian family named Cloud. Decades
> later, one of my grandmother's uncles married a Cherokee Co. woman of
mixed
> heritage. My grandmother recalled visiting her uncle and his part-Cherokee
> wife in the early 1900's. She had first cousins who were decidedly Native
> American in coloring and facial features. I met them in the late 1970's
when
> they paid her a visit at her home in Atlanta.



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