On North Main Street at Chambers Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
This 38-foot monument was designed and dedicated in 1930 by Colonel Sam Tate of Georgia Marble Company, as a tribute to General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia. Attendees included Governor Lamartine G. Hardman and other . . . — — Map (db m15159) HM
On East Church Street (Georgia Route 53) 0.1 miles south of Old Tate Highway, on the right when traveling north.
This highway from Tate to Talking Rock follows substantially the course of the Old Federal Road, the earliest thoroughfare to link Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation. Permission to use the way was granted informally by the Indians in . . . — — Map (db m22650) HM
On North Main Street at Stegall Drive, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
From Tate through Jasper to Talking Rock, this highway coincides closely with the course of the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's first vehicular way which linked Tennessee and Georgia across the Cherokee Country. Permission to open the route . . . — — Map (db m15477) HM
On N. Main St., on the right when traveling south.
This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two-story log building. Dr. William B. Tate urged the construction of the jail as a grand juror and on two . . . — — Map (db m15459) HM
On North Main Street at Court Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
Created December 5, 1853, and named for General Andrew Pickens of Revolutionary fame. The first settlements sprang up along the Old Federal Road which followed in general the route of the highway through Tate, Jasper and Talking Rock. Mount . . . — — Map (db m15476) HM
On North Main Street at Chambers Street, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.
In the nineteenth century, Northwest Georgia changed dramatically when the federal government forced native peoples out and allowed white settlers to purchase the land left behind through lotteries. The Kirby-Quinton Cabin and the land where it . . . — — Map (db m221131) HM
On North Main Street at D. B. Carrol Street, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.
"Stylishly and stoutly constructed" in 1906, the Old Pickens County Jail had "all the modern conveniences, both to the health and good keeping of the prisoners," reported Dr. William Tate, foreman of the building committee. Replacing Jasper's . . . — — Map (db m221128) HM
