- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Early Trading Post historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--White County
Trading posts--Georgia--Helen - Location:
- United States, Georgia, White County, Helen, 34.70148, -83.73157
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Ga. 17 about 1 mile east of Ga. 75 near Helen
Text of marker: "EARLY TRADING POST. At this point, just north of the safest ford in the Chattahoochee River, the first white settlers in this area built their campfires in 1822. A trading post was soon established on the site and Indians traded gold nuggets and gold-dust to the settlers for merchandise. The first Nacoochee post office was established at the trading post with Charles Williams, son of one of the first settlers, serving as Postmaster for more than 50 years. To this same site in 1838 soldiers gathered the Indians from surrounding valleys and highlands to begin their "Trail of Tears" to the West. 154-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_early-trading-post
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_early-trading-post
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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