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From: "Dream Builder" <>
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] CHEROKEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:10:37 -0500
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Perhaps it is the town of Etowah that I am thinking of or perhaps they
rerouted the Etowah River (which runs through Canton) and flooded part of
the old town. I'll call the local library later today and see if they know.

Dream Builder


----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Breeding" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] CHEROKEE COUNTY, GEORGIA


> Canton is miles from Lake Altoona. None of it wqas covered over. there
were
> small settlements covered, but not Canton. Earnie
> Canton Resident

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dream Builder" <>
> To: <>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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