On Saturday, May 29th, 2021, the Spirit of the American Doughboy Statue was rededicated in memory of those who lost their lives and those who served during World War 1. It will be an addition to the Chattooga County Veterans Memorial in Dowdy Park. The rededication was done through a collaboration between local veteran
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Dick Taylor’s Ridge
April 20, 2021Editor’s Note: The excellent piece below was contributed by Historical Society member Bill Mitchell, a skilled amateur historian who grew up with a view of Taylor (or Taylor’s if you please!) Ridge. Bill has a special appreciation for the history and the beauty of our Chattooga County environs. The original version of this piece appeared
Maurene Pickle Wallin Remembers the Trion Glove Mill in the 1940’s
March 17, 2021Maurene Wallin was born Maurene Ellen Pickle on February 18,1921 in Cherokee County Alabama at Broomtown to Tim and Emma Pickle. Her sisters are Hayne Speer and Waynie Edge; her brothers, both deceased, were Wilburn Pickle and Harold Pickle. Maurene and her husband, the late Bill Wallin, have one child, a daughter, Susan, who is
The Chattooga County Courthouse
February 25, 2021On March 23,1839 the Justices of the Interior Court were given authority by an act of the General Assembly to select a place for the county seat, buy land, divide it into lots and sell the lots to raise money for the construction of a county courthouse and a jail They purchased ninety acres of
At The Execution of David L. Beck ( The Gazette 1877)
February 24, 2021Friday the 27th day of April 1877 will long be remembered in Summerville. It had been raining during the night before and continued to rain at intervals during the day, sometimes pouring down in heavy showers; but it did not prevent the assembling of an immense concourse of persons of both sexes. Early in the
