History
The Brown Lands - Map of the BP and Wm. P. Brown land!
Treaty with Creeks - 1796 - see where it refers to Currahee Mountain!
History of the WMA - 1935 - 1938 by Tom Hawks
David Stone - Cousin of Robert Burns - his grave along Stone Grave Road
Brown Ferry Slaughter - this story is of William Penn Brown who lived just above what is now Hartwell Dam and the slaughter of 3 union soldiers after the Civil War. William Penn Brown lived between Pollard Brown in Abbyville, and his brother Robert Brown in Habersham County and while there is no proven link yet, he might have been related.
1910 Census - images of the Curahee District Census! (large files - use with cable-modem or when you have time!!)
How the land was obtained:
1798 - who lived here
1802 - Governor of Georgia writes President Thomas Jefferson
1804 - Wofford Settlement Purchase Treaty - 4 mile purchase
1937 - military leases for 99 years the land (and cure for cancer is found - social security payments etc)
Wofford Settlement - a summary of events (text)
A Soldier Came to Stay - from the Chieftan by Annie Ramage - 1989 (text)
SETTLERS AND INTRUDERS ON CHEROKEE INDIAN LANDS 1801-1816 - an incredible website that contains the 1798 list above as text! AND MUCH MORE.
Woffords Settlement - several historical documents and articles - excellent reading!
Merriwether Lewis found the Pacific - but he was here first!
Liquor License of Wm. P. Brown - 1913
Happenings - Stories of Cora Ledbetter! First published in the local news.