An itinerant stonecutter traveling through the North Georgia hills in 1835 noticed an outcropping of particularly fine marble. The small quarry he founded near the present site of Jasper was the first exploitation of a vein estimated to be large enough to supply the world's building needs for 3,000 years. The state of Georgia has two rivers named Chattooga. One forms part of the eastern border with South Carolina. The second runs southwest from Summerville, Georgia, to Weiss Lake in Alabama.
People pay a lot for famous signatures.
Among the famous men who signed the Declaration of Independence are Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Ben Franklin, but it is Georgia's own Button Gwinnett who nets the highest price for a signature, mostly because only 8 are known to exist. Dalton's carpet business began as a cottage industry. Women along U. S. 41 would sew bedspreads from a fabric known as chenille and drape them on clotheslines so passing tourists would see and hopefully buy them. The practice was so prevalent that the road became known as Chenille Alley, or Peacock Alley because of the many brilliant colors. Bartow County was the center of a religious revival that blossomed after the Civil War.