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Articles about North Georgia history and the state in general. This section is currently being developed. For more information on Georgia History, please see The Civil War in Georgia
| A Breed Apart | A Breed Apart Charlie Weems worked as an ATF agent in the North Georgia mountains. This is an excerpt from his book by the same name |
| Antebellum Georgia | Antebellum Georgia Life and times of the antebellum north Georgian. Culture, society and slavery |
| Civil Rights March, January, 1987 | Civil Rights March, January, 1987 Hosea Williams led 75 marchers through Cumming, Georgia on January 17, 1987. Returning the next week with Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young and Joseph Lowery, the marchers... |
| Exploration and Settlement | Exploration and Settlement From deSoto to Oglethorpe, the early Spanish explorations for gold to the first English settlements and Georgia's exploitation by the British Government. |
| Flags of Georgia | Flags of Georgia From the Bonnie Blue to the Stars and Bars, the history of Georgia's flags is quite a tale |
| Georgia and the American Revolution | Georgia and the American Revolution Overview of the American Revolution in Georgia, focusing on North Georgia's involvement |
| Georgia Civil War Overview | Georgia Civil War Overview North Georgia's involvement in the Campaigns and battles of the Civil War. |
| Georgia Gold Rush | Georgia Gold Rush America's first gold rush occurred in the mountains of North Georgia in 1829 |
| Home Front | Home Front North Georgia's home front during the Civil War. From anarchy in the east to the Women Seizures in the west, a view of life for the families at war. |
| Land Lotteries | Land Lotteries Between 1805 and 1832 the state of Georgia held seven distinct lotteries to divide land taken from Creek and Cherokee Indians. |
| Medal of Honor | Medal of Honor History of the Medal of Honor, first awarded to Andrews Raiders |
| North Georgia after the Civil War | North Georgia after the Civil War |
| North Georgia, 1783-1828 | North Georgia, 1783-1828 Federal highways crossed early Georgia, giving whites access to the Cherokee land they would later steal. From Ringgold to the Chattahoochee, and Hiawasee to Tugaloo, these roads... |
| Political Reconstruction | Political Reconstruction Comments on the political rebuilding after the Civil War by Richard Irby |
| Reconstruction | Reconstruction |
| The Beatles in Atlanta, Georgia | The Beatles in Atlanta, Georgia For 10 hours on August 18, 1965 the Beatles made their only concert stop in Atlanta. |
| The Confident Years | The Confident Years From 1877 to 1900, Georgia developed as a dual society, split by color, religion and gender. |
| The Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud | The Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud The Yazoo Land Fraud is a frequently misunderstood episode of North Georgia history |
| The Walton War | The Walton War Georgia and North Carolina fought a war! Although today rarely mentioned, this war consisted of two major battles involving hundreds of men. |
| Wofford's Tract | Wofford's Tract Perhaps the most unusual cession of land from the Cherokee to the state of Georgia was this four-mile tract in the northeast. |
| Yazoo Land Fraud | Yazoo Land Fraud A series of acts inspired by political greed giving Georgia's western lands to developers that ended in the Supreme Court. |
| Other pages of interest on About North Georgia Georgia Moundbuilders | |
| Georgia's Moundbuilders | Georgia's Moundbuilders Georgia's first civilization, the Mississippian Moundbuilders, rose during Woodlands Indian period and built both ceremonial and burial mounds throughout the state |
| About North Georgia Feature Articles | |
| Little Secrets | Little Secrets Story of the murder of Mary Phagan and trial of Leo Frank, the most famous criminal proceeding in Georgia history. |
| Iron Industry | Iron Industry Iron production was an important industry in Antebellum Georgia. Jacob Stroup began 3 furnaces, two in Georgia and one in North Carolina. Mark Cooper purchased the Etowah Works in 1843. |
| Airplane crash at Orly Field | Airplane crash at Orly Field Tragic Air France crash taking the lives of 111 of Atlanta's elite, civic leaders, art patrons and politicians |
| American Indians of Georgia | |
| Worcester v. Georgia | Worcester v. Georgia Chief Justice Marshall validate the Treaty Clause of the United States Constitution in a ruling in favor of the Cherokee Nation |
| North Georgia Mountains | |
| Lookout Mountain | Lookout Mountain From Tennessee through Northwest Georgia and into Alabama, Lookout Mountain stretches through the cultural history of these three states |
| North Georgia Parks | |
| Dahlonega Gold Museum | Dahlonega Gold Museum Tells the story of our Nation's first Gold Rush, and the affects it had on North Georgia history |
| North Georgia Weather | |
| North Georgia Droughts | North Georgia Droughts A look at droughts suffered through by the Peach State, especially those with the greatest impact on North Georgia. |
| The Civil War in Georgia | |
| Sherman leaves his lifeline | Sherman leaves his lifeline Leaving the Western and Atlantic RR, Sherman boldly moves towards Dallas in Paulding County |
| After Atlanta | After Atlanta From the capture of Atlanta, the heart of the South, until Sherman left the state on the March to the Sea and Hood headed west on the Nashville Campaign. |
| Secession! | Secession! Faced with a Republican president, Georgia elects a convention to vote on Secession. Unlike South Carolina and Mississippi, the outcome of the vote is very close.. |
| Atlanta Campaign | Atlanta Campaign |
| Battle of Davis Crossroads | Battle of Davis Crossroads A brief battle in McLemore Cove that presaged the much larger Battle of Chickamauga |
| Battle of Allatoona Pass | Battle of Allatoona Pass Hood's first major battle after the loss of Atlanta left a strong Union fort in place when the Confederates failed to take an important railroad pass |
| Before Chickamauga | Before Chickamauga As William Rosecrans moves on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, Braxton Bragg decides to commit his entire force to stopping them. |
| Chickamauga Campaign | Chickamauga Campaign Covers the movements of the Union and Confederate Armies in the weeks prior to the battle of Chickamauga. |
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