Part of the area that became Lumpkin County, Georgia, was settled as
early as 1818 when Hall County was created. In 1832 Lumpkin county
was created from Hall County and from Cherokee Indian lands in the 1832
Georgia Land Lottery. Bordering Lumpkin County are Dawson, Fannin,
Gilmer, Hall, Union, and White Counties, Ga.
Lumpkin County, Georgia Cemeteries includes:
Complete surveys of all 80 cemeteries in Lumpkin County.
Over 13,000 tombstone inscriptions include full names, birth
and death dates, military and other
relevant data.
Maps of Lumpkin County for 1832, 1839, 1896, 1915 and 2001.
Complete index of all names, including maiden names of females.
Nine appendices include:
Lost cemeteries of Lumpkin County
Early births (pre 1820) and deaths (pre 1850).
Military service markers for all wars.
1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 Mortality Census schedules.
Hard cover with fine quality acid-free paper.
526 (+xvi) pages.
Surnames having more than forty references:
Abercrombie, Adams, Anderson, Ash, Barnes, Beck, Berry, Brown, Butler,
Cain, Caldwell, Chapman, Chester, Christian, Crane, Davis, Dowdy, Edwards,
Evans, Fields, Fortner, Free, Gaddis, Garrett, Gooch, Grindle, Grizzle,
Head, Ingram, Jarrard, Jones, Lance, Lee, Lingerfelt, Martin, McDonald,
Miller, Mincey, Moore, O'Kelley, Parks, Peck, Perry, Pierce, Ravan, Rider,
Ridley, Roberts, Robinson, Sain/Saine/Sayne, Satterfield, Seabolt, Smith,
Stringer, Sullens/Sullins, Thomas, Thompson, Turner, Walden, Walker,
Waters, Whelchel, White, Wilson, Wimpey/Wimpy and Woody.
The price is $35 each, postpaid.
Order from:
Ted Brooke
2055 Foster Drive,
Cumming, GA 30040
DEATHS, MURDERS AND LYNCHINGS
Abstracted from Lumpkin County, Georgia, Newspapers 1873-1900
Volume I
by Jimmy E. Anderson
Publisher: Wolfe Publishing, 1998
(P.O. Box 8036 Fernandina Beach, FL 32035)
Hardbound, 350 pages, full name index.
Library of Congress Catalog No: 98-60213
Contains the names of approximately 5,000 people mentioned in articles published during this time period. Most of the articles are reprinted in their entirety. A lot of the deaths reported were of people out of state who had passed through North Georgia or had relatives still living in North Georgia. It is an excellent research tool for family researchers who had ancestors with North Georgia ties who died during this time period.
HALL COUNTY GEORGIA MARRIAGES, 1819-1832
compiled by Frances T. Ingmire
Publisher: Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN, 1985
Softcover, 28 pages
Includes an alphabetical listing for the groom, as well as the bride.
Each record includes the name of bride, name of groom and date.
LUMPKIN COUNTY GEORGIA MARRIAGES, 1833-1860
compiled by Frances T. Ingmire
Publisher: Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN, 1985
Softcover, 54 pages
Includes an alphabetical listing for the groom, as well as the bride.
Each record includes the name of bride, name of groom and date.
1834 STATE CENSUS OF LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA
Frances Ingmire
Publisher: Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN, 1985
Softcover, 9 pages
This is a listing of those white families living in Lumpkin between 19 February 1834 and 22 March 1934.
This is a State Census and differs from the Federal Census of 1830 or 1840.
There were 4393 persons counted. The names of the head of household
with the number of residents within that house are shown
CENSUSES FOR GEORGIA COUNTIES:
Taliaferro 1827; Lumpkin 1838; Chatham 1845
Publisher: Taylor Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979
57 pages
1860 LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA CENSUS INDEX
Frances Ingmire
Publisher: Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN, 1985
Softcover, 22 pages
THE ONE HUNDRED-SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
WAHOO BAPTIST CHURCH, 1819-1979
LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA
by Elizabeth Barton
Publisher: Wahoo Baptist Church, 1979
Softcover, 53 pages
LUMPKIN COUNTY HISTORY: A BRIEF SKETCH
by Bill and Deborah Kinsland
Publisher: Kinsland's Hometown Book Store, Dahlonega, GA
Paper Pamphlet, 8.5" x 11", 4 pages
MOUNTAIN LINES: WIT, WISDOM AND HISTORY
FROM THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS
by Steve Whitmire and Larry Fricks
Introduction dated December 1992
Softcover, 101 pages. Not indexed.
Charlie Turner and the Bear pp. 45-52 takes place in
"a tiny historic community in North Lumpkin County called Turner's Corner."
It includes a photo of Oscar Cannon, age 94.
OBSERVATIONS FROM A PEAK IN LUMPKIN
The Writings of W B Townsend, editor of the Dahlonega Nugget
by A. F. Dean
Publisher: Oglethorpe University Press, Atlanta, First Edition 1936
342 pages
DAHLONEGA
by Hugh I., II Shott
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Inc, 2002
Softcover, 236 pages
ISBN 1591131561
DAHLONEGA HAUNTS
Ghostly Adventures in a Georgia Mountain Town
by Amy Blackmarr
Publisher: Willacoochee Publishing Company, Tifton, GA, 2005
Softcover; 150 pages
ISBN 0977317307
DAHLONEGA: A SPECIAL PLACE
by John D Anthony
Publisher: J.D. Anthony, 2000
ISBN 0970246609
BOARDING HOUSE REACH - SPIRAL BOUND COOKBOOK
Recipes From The World Famous Smith House Inn Of Dahlonega Georgia
Compiled by Dot Gibson
Publisher: Dot Gibson Publications, 1981
Susan Coleman Illustrations
Spiral Bound
GOLD FEVER
America's First Gold Rush
by Ray C. Rensi and H. David Williams
Publisher: Georgia Humanities Council, Atlanta, 1988
Softcover, 43 pages
GOLD RUSH DAYS IN DAHLONEGA
The History of a Mountain Festival
by Sallie Sorohan
Publisher: Sallie Sorohan, Dahlonega, GA, 2002
Softcover, 155 pages, with index and photos
AURARIA
The Story of A Georgia Gold Mining Town
by E. Merton Coulter
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press, 1956
Hardcover, 149 pages, including index.
Library of Congress Catalog No: 56-13005
Quote from Preface:
"This book was made possible by the discovery and use of a complete
file of the Western Herald, a newspaper published in Auraria."
The newspaper was established April 9, 1833 and lasted just under a year.
DAHLONEGA GOLD
by Ben Green Cooper
Publisher: Roberts Publishing Co., 1962
Paperback, 32 pages
The story of Dahlonega, GA
WHITE, LUMPKIN COUNTY GA GOLD MINING
Tales of the Southern Blue Ridge
by W. W Blackburn
1954
Softcover booklet, staplebound, 28 pages, with B&W photos
Tales include: lost silver mine in White County GA, lost gold coins,
hidden treasures in Lumpkin County GA, Battle Branch Mine,
the art of hand panning for Gold Passing in the east, a prospect near the Old Loud mine,
Indian spirits protect mine, hand testing...
GOLD COINS OF THE DAHLONEGA MINT, 1838-1861:
A Numismatic History & Analysis
by Douglas A. Winter
Publisher: Douglas Winter Numismatics Publishing, 1997
Hardcover, 250 pages
ISBN 0965678601
Publisher: Zyrus Press, 2nd Edition, 2003
Hardcover, 237 pages
ISBN 0974237108
THE UNITED STATES BRANCH MINT AT DAHLONEGA, GEORGIA
It's History and Coinage
by Clair M. Birdsall
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 1984, 1998
Hardcover, 119 pages, with index and color plates
ISBN 0893085200
THE NEIGHBORHOOD MINT
Dahlonega in the Age of Jackson
by Elizabeth W. Etheridge
Publisher: Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 1986
Hardcover, 228 pages; ISBN 0865542406
(Reprint)
by Elizabeth W. Etheridge and Sylvia Gailey Head
Publisher: Gold Rush Gallery, 2000
Hardcover, 206 pages; ISBN: 0967976901
THE GOLD OF DAHLONEGA
The First Major Gold Rush in North America
by Lou Harshaw
Publisher: Hexagon Company, Asheville, North Carolina, 1976
Hardcover, 109 pages
EARLY GEORGIA GOLD - DAHLONEGA
by John Miller
Publisher: Lulu.com, 2005
Softcover
ISBN 1411621123
THE HAND DITCH OF LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA
by Thomas H. Gresham
Publisher: Southeastern Archaeological Services, Inc., Athens, GA, 2002
The Hand Ditch, a massive 14 mile long 19th aqueduct, was constructed to provide water & water pressure to gold...
THE GOLD SEEKERS, GOLD, GHOSTS AND LEGENDS
FROM CAROLINA TO CALIFORNIA
by Nancy Roberts
Publisher: University of South Carolina, 1989
265 pages. No index.
From Contents: "Green Russell: A Man Without Fear" pp 192 -221
GREEN RUSSELL AND GOLD
by Elma Dill Russell Spencer
Publisher: University of Texas, Austin, 1966
ISBN: 6615707
GOLD COUNTRY
by Elma Dill Russell Spencer
Publisher: Naylor Co., San Antonio, TX, 1958
9x6 in, 256 pages
WHITES AMONG THE CHEROKEES
GEORGIA 1828 - 1838
by Mary B. Warren and Eve B. Weeks
Publisher: Heritage Papers, Athens, GA, 1987
Hardcover, 303 pages, with full name index
GEORGIA'S 1832 GOLD LOTTERY
by Mary Bondurant Warren
Publisher: Heritage Papers, Danielsville, GA, 1981
Hardcover, 254 pages
The book consists of an alphabetical index to the lottery
CHEROKEE PLANTERS IN GEORGIA, 1832-1838
by Don L. Shadburn
Publisher: W H Wolfe Associates Historical Publications, 1989, 1996, 1998
422 pages
This book of historical essays on Georgia's 11 "Cherokee counties" is the only work published anywhere on Georgia's Cherokee natives and Indian countrymen on a grassroots, county-to-county level. This academic work, which has become a standard reference, carries over 600 source notes and two indices. The book is illustrated with 93 plats from 1832 Cherokee surveys and maps of the 11 counties.
SOME GEORGIA RECORDS
VOLUME 6
by Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, 1993
Hardcover, 500 pages
ISBN 0893086878
Includes the following counties:
Cherokee, Cass, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Gordon, Gwinnett, Gilmer,
Hall, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Walton, Whitfield
over 40,000 persons listed.
A NORTH GEORGIA JOURNAL OF HISTORY
VOLUME I
Compiled and Edited by Olin Jackson
Publisher: Legacy Communications, Inc., 1989
Address in 1991 Reprint is:
Legacy Communications, Inc.,
65 Roswell Street, Building
100, Alpharetta GA 30201.
467 pages, including index.
Library of Congress Catalog No. 89-84981
HERITAGE OF HALL COUNTY, GEORGIA 1818-2001
by Hall County Heritage Book Committee
and County Heritage, Inc. (www.countyheritagebooks.com)
Publisher: Walsworth Publishing Co., Inc., 2001
THE FAMILIES OF HALL COUNTY, 1817-1849
by Robert S. Davis
Publisher: Magnolia Press, Gainesville, GA, 1991
THE HISTORY OF HALL COUNTY, GEORGIA
by James E. Dorsey
Publisher: Magnolia Press, Gainesville, GA, 1991
INDEX OF MARRIAGES
HALL COUNTY, GEORGIA, 1819-1900
Transcribed and edited by Patricia K. Jones and Becky Nix
Gainesville, GA, 2000
