Rabun County GA Archives - Appalachian History

The Devil danced on Fiddlers Mountain

Rose Thompson spent summer of 1946 in Clayton, in Rabun County GA, where an elderly black preacher told her the tale of Fiddler’s Mountain.

Mr. Ritchie, principal of Rabun Gap Industrial School, is himself a mountain boy & struggling to place the school on a firm financial basis.

As with elsewhere in Georgia, many of Rabun County’s place names are derived from Indian names. In Rabun County that would be the Cherokees.

In this partial court transcript, Eugene W. Beck is indicted for the murder of his wife Ella. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Foxfire Museum adds to its collection a spectacular local barn of a style not often seen in the north Georgia mountains.