SMARC: GA, TN & NC Tri-state History

It would take us numerous web pages to inform our visitors about the awesome and extensive history of our area. So many other web sites have already done this so well, that we see no reason to try and duplicate their efforts. Below are links to these wonderful history sites.

SMARC highly recommends all family historians to learn our history and the county formations of our tri-state area. Why? Without this knowledge, a researcher will be very lost in understanding how their ancestors lived and where to find information about them.

Biographies of individuals are brief summaries of a person's life and often contain very helpful information. However, they were written based on that particular author's research; and their accuracy will depend on just how detailed and thorough that author performed their research. Prior to the internet, it was very costly and time-consuming to conduct genealogy research covering a geographical area beyond one county at a time. Consequently, old biographies may have been based on research conclusions that did not include the 'big picture'. Unfortunately, there are also numerous fraudulent biographies on the internet. SMARC suggests that biographies be used merely as a research tool and not viewed as factual. If there are no sources cited or the information in a biography cannot be duplicated with sound genealogical research practices, it should be ignored.

GA	NC	TN
State and Regional History: The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson Historical Book on-line for your reading enjoyment !! courtesy of ALHN
This Day in GA History Georgia History - by Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Univ. of GA Our Georgia History - timeline of events from 1498 to present; caution: multiple popups History of Colonial Georgia About North Georgia - History, Travel & Adventure in the North GA Mountains - by Randy Golden The Changing Boundaries of Cherokee Co., GA - by Linda Woodward Geiger	Historical Highlights of NC History of the Carolinas Mountains, Lakes & Rivers History of Western NC	East TN pre-1796 @ tngennet.org The First People of TN and the American SE - @ tngennet.org Natural History of East TN - by the Sherpa guides Bibliography of TN Local History Sources - @ TSLA
County History Sites:
Cherokee GA Dawson GA Fannin GA Gilmer GA Habersham GA Lumpkin GA Murray GA Pickens GA Rabun GA Towns GA Union GA Old Walton GA	Buncombe NC Burke NC Cherokee NC Clay NC Graham NC Haywood NC Henderson NC Jackson NC Macon NC Madison NC Rutherford NC Swain NC Transylvania NC Yancey NC	Godspeed's' 1887 TN County Histories: Blount TN Bradley TN McMinn TN Monroe TN Polk TN Bibliography of TN Local History Sources - @ TSLA History of Tellico Plains [Monroe Co.] History of Coker Creek [Monroe Co.]
Books & CDs available for purchase on-line
The Blue Wall: Wilderness of the Carolinas and Georgia A North Georgia Journal of History Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia, of the Cherokees, and the Author Revised and Corrected Edition with an Added Index Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia Scots in Georgia and the Deep South, 1735-1845 The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 A Researcher's Library of Georgia History, Genealogy, and Records Sources, Vol. 2 (Researcher's Library of Georgia History, Genealogy, & Record) An Index to English Crown Grants in Georgia, 1755-1775 Cherokee Planters in Georgia, 1832-1838 This publication is subtitled "Historical Essays on Eleven Counties in the Cherokee Nation of Georgia. " It represents a history of the 11 "Cherokee counties" created in 1832-33 from the Cherokee Nation surveys. Primary sources include 1832 survey records, 1835 Cherokee Census, and 1836 Valuations of Indian Improvements recorded by agents in these 11 counties of northwest Georgia. It carries 3 sections of appendices and 2 indices, one of Indian names. Murray GA Heritage Book History of Lumpkin County for the First Hundred Years 1832-1932	Western North Carolina (A History from 1730 to 1913) The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (Civil War America) Until He Is Dead: Capital Punishment in Western North Carolina History May we all remember well: A journal of the history & culture of western North Carolina The German Invasion of Western North Carolina The War of Northern Aggression in Western North Carolina Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains Historical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851. 2 vols. in 1 Records of Old Macon Co., NC 1829-1850 North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. I, no. 1-Vol. III, no. 3 (11 numbers) The History of Jackson County A Heritage of Healing: the Medical History of Haywood County The Story of Lake Junaluska Hendersonville & Henderson County; A Pictorial History	The Annuals of Tennessee History of Tennessee Illustrated 30 East TN Counties Early Inns and Taverns of East Tennessee: A Photo-essay America's First Western Frontier: East Tennessee Blazing the Wilderness Road With Daniel Boone in American History Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869 East Tennessee and the Civil War East Tennessee Cantilever Barns History of Sweetwater Valley [Monroe Co.] Red Clay and Rattlesnake Springs: a history of the Cherokee Indians of Bradley Co., TN
For enthic histories, please visit SMARC's Ethnic section.