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Tag: Dade County GA

Big Fork Hotel and Post Office
April 25, 2019 Georgia / Preachers

Was I what you would call a pioneer? No, there were then old settlers

I sought and received the forgiveness of my sins in August 1861, at a camp meeting at Bird’s Chapel, in Dade County, Georgia.

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Sittons' Gulch, Dade County, Georgia
August 10, 2017 Doctors / Oral histories

Who Was Here When I Got Here

Reminiscences of the Cloverdale, GA community by Brody Hawkins, who was born there in 1927 (d. 1998) and lived there all his life. 

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Holding a special edition of The Dade County Times which was published in the Confederate colors of blue and gray, announcing the return of Dade County to the Union, is Judge J.M.C. Townsend.
May 21, 2015 Border disputes / Civil War / Georgia

The persistent myth of ‘The State of Dade’

“If Georgia doesn’t vote to immediately secede from the Union, Dade County will secede from Georgia & become The Independent State of Dade!”

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