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Pickens County, Georgia                         A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Pickens County, Georgia. This County is available for adoption. Our goal at Genealogy Trails is to help you track your ancestors through time and place by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This is a continuation of our original, Illinois Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy Project and we are excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact us. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as our Illinois websites are. If you think you might be interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and instructions on signing up.. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists Any data we come across will be added to this site. We regret that we are unable to perform any personal research for you. The Georgia General Assembly passed an act on December 5, 1863 to create Pickens County from portions of Cherokee and Gilmer counties. Pickens received several more land additions from Cherokee (1869) and Gilmer Counties (1858 and 1863); however several sections of Pickens County have also been transferred to other counties: Dawson County (1857), Gordon County (1860), and Cherokee County (1870). Pickens County is named for American Revolutionary War General Andrew Pickens. The county seat is Jasper, Georgia Most of Pickens County's early industry revolved around the marble industry. Georgia Marble Company is located in Marble Hill near Tate. The Tate Elementary school is built out of marble. The marble was also used to make the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. Most of the marble is white, but there is also very rare pink marble. It is one of the few places in the world where pink marble is found. The marble is also used for tombstones for the United States Military. Cities and towns Jasper -- Talking Rock -- Nelson -- Tate ONLINE DATA Only the links in color are active. Native Americans Obituaries Census Slave Data Cemeteries Marriages History Wills Biographies Military Newspaper Data Misc     EMail Us       Website Updates: Adjacent Counties Gilmer County, Georgia - north Dawson County, Georgia - east Cherokee County, Georgia - south Bartow County, Georgia - southwest Gordon County, Georgia - west If you think you might be interested in hosting one of the above counties, you can read the Volunteer Information page Here ~ Please Report Broken Links ~ Visit our National Genealogy Trails Website Copyright © 2007 - 2008 by Genealogy Trails - Contributors retain all copyrights.