North Knoxville Carolina Nashville 40 40 40 Tennessee Asheville Gatlinburg Nashville Charlotte 75 26 Sautee Greenville 5 Helen to Hardman Trail 8 Anna Ruby Falls 11 Old Sautee Store 14 The Stovall House Chattanooga Nacoochee The Helen to Hardman Trail follows the riverside The twin waterfalls of Curtis Creek and York Creek Built circa 1837 by Moses Harshaw, attorney, landowner 385 The E.P. Williams family built this general store in 1872, 85 railbed of the Gainesville & Northwestern Railroad, a 35- join to form Smith Creek, which flows into picturesque and until the 1940s it was also a post office. The store has and by some accounts, “the meanest man who ever lived,” South Carolina 75 Columbia mile line built by the Byrd-Matthews sawmill company to Unicoi Lake. Captain James Nichols, who built the Hardman remained in business for nearly 150 years and is a this Folk Victorian-style house on a hilltop commands a 85 Athens provide freight and passenger service from Gainesville to panoramic view of the Sautee Valley. William I. Stovall 20 House, bought the falls and named them for his daughter, landmark in the Sautee EXPL RE Georgia Helen and Robertstown. From there, narrow-gauge tracks Anna Ruby. A paved, 0.8-mile walking trail leads to the bought the house in 1893 and added a kitchen wing and HELEN & SAUTEE NACOOCHEE Birmingham Atlanta Nacoochee Valley. Part of 20 extended deep into the mountains to bring out logs. stunningly beautiful cascades. the old store is preserved wraparound porches. It is now a B&B inn. 20 as a museum. 75 Travel Distances (in miles) Atlanta ..........................................................90 Birmingham ...............................................230 Charlotte ....................................................200 12 African American Heritage Site Chattanooga ...............................................131 Circa 1850, the family of E.P. Williams, a prosperous Greenville ..................................................... 95 6 Chattahoochee River 9 Unicoi Turnpike local farmer and businessman, built a cabin near the Old Sautee Store to house enslaved people. Today the Gatlinburg ....................................................116 Steeped in human history since 1000 BC, the This ancient trail, which eventually became a toll restored cabin rests on the SNCA campus and serves as 15 Stovall Covered Bridge Savannah ...................................................280 Chattahoochee flows from its source near the Appalachian road, began near Knoxville, Tennessee, and wound its way an educational tool, focusing on the story of slavery in Trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains, through Helen, alongside southeastward through the mountains of North Carolina Nacoochee Valley. This is the smallest covered bridge in Georgia. Built the Helen to Hardman Trail, around Nacoochee Mound, and Georgia to the Tugaloo River, where travelers could across Chickamauga Creek in 1895 to replace the original Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center through Atlanta, past Kolomoki Mounds near Blakely, board boats bound for Savannah. The Turnpike passed bridge that washed away in the early 1890s, it is one lane a property of the Sautee Nacoochee Community Association Georgia, and on to the Gulf of Mexico. through Hardman Farm and by the Old Sautee Store. wide, 33 feet long, and timber framed using a modified queen-post truss design. 283 Highway 255 North 7 Nora Mill 10 Crescent Hill Baptist Church Sautee Nacoochee GA 30571 Unlike most miners of the time, gold miner John This Gothic Revival- Martin remained in Nacoochee Valley and built this grist http://www.snca.org 706-878-3300 style building served as mill in 1876. In 1902, Dr. Lamartine G. Hardman, governor the First Presbyterian Open Seven Days a Week of Georgia from 1927-1931, bought the mill and named it in memory of his sister Nora. The mill still grinds grain. Church in White County 13 Folk Pottery Museum of 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday to Saturday from 1872 until 1898. In Northeast Georgia 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm on Sunday 1921, Dr. Lamartine G. Hardman, governor of Northeast Georgia’s pottery tradition is Georgia from 1927-1931, nationally known, and this museum showcases the handcraft skills of one bought the church and of the South’s premier grassroots art 16 White County Courthouse X deeded it to the Baptist forms. The American Institute of White County hired Edwin Poore Williams to design Church. The beautiful Architects has given this museum two and build the White County Courthouse on the town square church is still in operation national design awards, and the World in 1858. Its architecture is atypical of courthouses in this and may be the most Architecture Community has honored part of the South, as it was modeled after Philadelphia’s photographed church the museum for its outstanding Independence Hall. The bricks were hand made by GET STARTED! in Georgia. architectural design. enslaved laborers using clay from the Mossy Creek area. 8 356 Download our free smartphone app, Why You Should See More 1 Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center 3 Nacoochee Mound Unicoi State The Heart & Heritage of Sautee Nacoochee SNCA’s brick schoolhouse was built in 1928 and Park & Lodge Native Americans built the Nacoochee Mounds during of the Northeast Georgia Mountains, operated as a high school until 1959 and then as an the Early Middle Woodland period (around 100 BC) and to guide you on regional tours. This is a special place. The fertile and well-watered elementary school until 1974. In the 1980s, a group of occupied them through the Mississippian period, from 1350 valleys at the intersections of the Chattahoochee River, Sautee Nacoochee residents bought the property, restored to 1600 AD. Captain John Nichols built the gazebo atop Dukes Creek and Sautee Creek held immense beauty in the the schoolhouse, which still has its creaky old wood floors, the surviving mound in 1890. The Smithsonian partially deep past and still do today. Beginning roughly 2000 years and began building what would become the Sautee 15 excavated the mound in 1915 and found 75 burials. ago, a relatively large population of Native Americans Nacoochee Cultural Center. chose to live in these valleys surrounded by forested hills and abundant wildlife. The Nacoochee Mound, an iconic landmark set in what they called the “Valley of the Evening Star” is now visible near the intersection of Georgia Highways 17 and 75. The mound was a central feature of Not all our visitors have smartphones, so this brochure their community, and it remains central to ours today. Explore downtown Helen just and map offer samples of the thematic tours the app will minutes away! In the early 1800s, small groups of white settlers came provide. Visitors, families and students in White County and 6 here following ancient trails along the eastern side of the Northeast Georgia can use our app to tour the area and Appalachian Mountains. In 1822, two larger groups that learn about its rich history and environment. These tours 14 included as many as 60 families arrived from the North include archaeological sites, mountain tops, ancient trails 2 Hardman House Carolina counties of Buncombe, Rutherford, and Burke. Helen and historic houses. We are excited and honored to offer Captain James Nichols built this Italianate-style house Earliest view of Nacoochee Indian Mound They brought the skills, tools, materials, livestock (and 5 by Thomas A. Richards circa 1840 this app, and we hope you enjoy it. Just scan the QR code around 1870. Originally known as “West End” because slaves) to form an almost self-sustaining, plantation-like image below to download the free app. it was at the west end of the Nacoochee Valley, this 4 Mount Yonah community. The names of these early settlers are still remarkable farmstead museum includes a dairy barn, Yonah is the Cherokee word for “bear,” and This brochure and app are brought to you by the names of people one sees and meets here today. Sautee Nacoochee Community Association (SNCA). Local greenhouse, springhouse, kitchen, smokehouse, gas house, 255 the mountain indeed looks like a crouching bear in These tours reveal both ancient and modern stories of 255 residents established SNCA in 1981 to recognize and carriage house and game house. certain light. Geologically, the 3,166-foot mountain is a Sautee Nacoochee. Two millennia of Native American life preserve the heritage, environment and community of this “monadnock,” an isolated extrusion of igneous bedrock were followed by two centuries of rapid change—people 7 exceptional place in the North Georgia mountains. Over the similar to Stone Mountain east of Atlanta. Looking south, it growing food, mining gold, lumbering the great trees, past four decades, the Center has widened its stewardship is prominently visible behind the Nacoochee Mound. enduring slavery, the Civil War, reviving agricultural wealth, Hardman House goals and strengthened its responsibility and leadership Parking Lot 1 weathering the Great Depression and more war, and lately, 2 in the community’s life. For additional information see our developing tourism. Railroads, automobiles, telephones 10 13 website, SNCA.org, or email [email protected]. 17 and tourism have changed how life is lived here, but what 12 11 has not changed is the deep sense of a community that 3 Hardman Parking treasures its people and the rich, beautiful land. Lot Hwy 17 Entrance Sautee Scan the QR Code to 9 Sautee download the app! Our value statement is NacoocheeNacoochee 75 75 We Change People’s Lives! For additional information contact [email protected]. (c.) 2019 SNCA. 16 4 8 miles from mound 4 miles from mound Cleveland EXPLORE-Helen-Sautee-GA.