- Source: Pickens County, Georgia
Pickens County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,216. The county seat is Jasper. Pickens County is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, Georgia metropolitan statistical area.
History
The Georgia General Assembly passed an act on December 5, 1853, 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.
During the Civil War, Company D of the 1st Georgia Infantry Battalion of the Union Army was raised in Pickens County.
Most of Pickens County's early industry revolved around marble. 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 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.
Pickens County has seen very rapid growth with the building of Georgia State Route 515, locally referred to as the "four-lane". Many new businesses and residents continue to move to Pickens County.
Pickens County is home the Georgia Marble Festival.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 233 square miles (600 km2), of which 232 square miles (600 km2) are land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (0.3%) is covered by water.
The county is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The highest point in Pickens County is the 3,288-ft summit of Mount Oglethorpe, the southernmost peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and for a number of years, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Other notable peaks in Pickens County include Sharp Top Mountain and Sharp Mountain. One of the best viewpoints of Sharp Top Mountain is from Grandview Lake Dam on Grandview Road.
The eastern half of Pickens County is located in the Etowah River subbasin of the ACT River Basin (Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin). The western half of the county is located in the Coosawattee River sub-basin of the same larger ACT River Basin.
= Adjacent counties
=Gilmer County - north
Dawson County - east
Cherokee County - south
Bartow County - southwest
Gordon County - west
Communities
= Cities
=Jasper
Nelson (partially in Cherokee County)
= Town
=Talking Rock
= Unincorporated communities
=Tate
Marble Hill
Blaine
Hinton
= Private communities
=A significant portion of the county population resides in gated master-planned communities that function similar to a municipality, with HOA fees to provide many municipal-type services independently from the county government.
Bent Tree
Big Canoe (partially in Dawson County)
The Preserve at Sharp Mountain
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 33,216 people, 11,868 households, and 8,539 families residing in the county.
Politics
Politically, Pickens County is an outlier in Georgia, one of the few ancestrally Republican counties of the state, due to Unionist sentiment in the county during the American Civil War.
Transportation
= Major highways
=Education
Notable residents
Farish Carter Tate, U.S. congressman
John Bozeman, frontiersman; co-founder of Bozeman, Montana
Chandler Smith, professional racecar driver
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Pickens County, Georgia
List of counties in Georgia
References
General
Specific
The weekly newspaper for Pickens County is the Pickens Progress, a family-owned newspaper published since 1887 in Jasper.
Encyclopedia of Georgia Pickens County article
GeorgiaInfo Pickens County Courthouse info
External links
Media related to Pickens County, Georgia at Wikimedia Commons
Documents from Pickens County in the Digital Library of Georgia
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