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The Lone Oak Motel is an abandoned motel outside of Toccoa, Georgia. Built in 1941, it seems to have been in use until 1921. Tax records indicate it was sold in 2024, so its future is unknown. It could be restored, demolished, or continue to languish. When I researched the motel’s history, I found out it was the final home of the singer Delecta “Dee” Clark (1938-1990), who sang the 1961 hit…

Built in approximately 1880, this commercial building once contained a bank and stores.

Built in 1857, Riverside sits high on a hill overlooking the Tugaloo River in Stephens County, Georgia. The homestead has been in the Prather family since its inception. The Greek Revival structure is part of a larger piece of plantation land that still had several extant structures according to the 1982 National Register of Historic Places application. According to the NRHP application, the…

Petroglyphs of Bronze Age Nordic boats identified in Northeast Georgia

The Uchee have always said that they came across the Atlantic from the Home of the Sun and landed on the Georgia coast. Uchee descendants are being found to carry high levels of the same DNA test markers found in the Saami (Lapps) of northern Scandinavia, the Gamlafolk of the mountains between Sweden and Denmark,  the Black Irish of County Kerry, Ireland and the Basques of Iberia.    This…

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