Blue Ridge Mtns., Virginia
On the roof top of Virginia, the continent's oldest mountains,
you can walk through high mountain meadows, or drive the
nation's oldest and longest rural parkway. This area is ripe
with history, tradition, and music. See living history at the Blue
Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum. Here is the home the
Old Fiddlers convention, the New Market battlefield, Luray
Caverns, and many more adventures. Head west from the
blue Ridge area and enter the heart of Appalachia. Old time
music, trout filled streams, and traditional skills and crafts are
practiced here. Drive east and you will find places such as
historic Jamestown, and Williamsburg.
The Blue Ridge Range comprises the majority of the
Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachians are a loose-knit
series of mountain ranges that extend from Maine to Alabama
and include portions of New Hampsire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticutt, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. These mountains
formed the greatest barrier to the westward movement of
European and American settlers until the 19th century.
No wonder they call them the Blue Ridge MountainsWest of
the Blue Ridge range is a second series of mountains that
runs from West Central North Carolina to Fannin County,
Georgia. In Georgia, this range is known as the Cohuttas;
further north they are called the Smoky Mountains. The
Cohuttas and the Smokies are part of the Blue Ridge province,
yet they are actually geologically distinct from the Blue Ridge
Mountain Range and quite a bit older.
In Fannin County, Georgia, the Gateway to the Blue Ridge
Mountains, the Cohuttas rise in the west and the Blue Ridge to
the south and east. The Cherokee consided the Cohuttas to
be the "poles of the shed," holding up the sky in this, their
"Enchanted Land." Many Cherokee would farm in the Blue
Ridge Mountains, leaving them during the winter and staying
at the Cherokee village of Aska, or "winter home."
These mountains also held wealth for the early settlers.
Although agriculture was the major industry in the area, lumber
and mining in both the Cohuttas and Blue Ridge Mountains
contributed significant income to the north Georgia settlers.
Once the lumber had been harvested the federal government
bought the mountain land and created the Chattahoochee
National Forest.
During the 1930's the Civilian Conservation Corps worked to
improve the environmental conditions of the mountains,
reforesting areas all across Fannin County. There were two
camps listed in Fannin County, Georgia, Camp Sea Creek and
Camp Wilscot. Other camps outside Fannin County,
specifically Camp Woody in Suches, did significant amounts of
work within our county.
Today, more than 100,000 acres of land in Fannin County is
managed by the United States Forest Service. The Fannin
County Chamber of Commerce and local businesses work
closely with the Forest Service in many aspects of the
management of the land within our county.
you can walk through high mountain meadows, or drive the
nation's oldest and longest rural parkway. This area is ripe
with history, tradition, and music. See living history at the Blue
Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum. Here is the home the
Old Fiddlers convention, the New Market battlefield, Luray
Caverns, and many more adventures. Head west from the
blue Ridge area and enter the heart of Appalachia. Old time
music, trout filled streams, and traditional skills and crafts are
practiced here. Drive east and you will find places such as
historic Jamestown, and Williamsburg.
The Blue Ridge Range comprises the majority of the
Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachians are a loose-knit
series of mountain ranges that extend from Maine to Alabama
and include portions of New Hampsire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticutt, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. These mountains
formed the greatest barrier to the westward movement of
European and American settlers until the 19th century.
No wonder they call them the Blue Ridge MountainsWest of
the Blue Ridge range is a second series of mountains that
runs from West Central North Carolina to Fannin County,
Georgia. In Georgia, this range is known as the Cohuttas;
further north they are called the Smoky Mountains. The
Cohuttas and the Smokies are part of the Blue Ridge province,
yet they are actually geologically distinct from the Blue Ridge
Mountain Range and quite a bit older.
In Fannin County, Georgia, the Gateway to the Blue Ridge
Mountains, the Cohuttas rise in the west and the Blue Ridge to
the south and east. The Cherokee consided the Cohuttas to
be the "poles of the shed," holding up the sky in this, their
"Enchanted Land." Many Cherokee would farm in the Blue
Ridge Mountains, leaving them during the winter and staying
at the Cherokee village of Aska, or "winter home."
These mountains also held wealth for the early settlers.
Although agriculture was the major industry in the area, lumber
and mining in both the Cohuttas and Blue Ridge Mountains
contributed significant income to the north Georgia settlers.
Once the lumber had been harvested the federal government
bought the mountain land and created the Chattahoochee
National Forest.
During the 1930's the Civilian Conservation Corps worked to
improve the environmental conditions of the mountains,
reforesting areas all across Fannin County. There were two
camps listed in Fannin County, Georgia, Camp Sea Creek and
Camp Wilscot. Other camps outside Fannin County,
specifically Camp Woody in Suches, did significant amounts of
work within our county.
Today, more than 100,000 acres of land in Fannin County is
managed by the United States Forest Service. The Fannin
County Chamber of Commerce and local businesses work
closely with the Forest Service in many aspects of the
management of the land within our county.
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