Virtually every landscape holds traces of the past as people leave imprints of their presence everywhere they have been. When we peel back the layers of history, the true nature of a place can be better understood. In “A History of Sautee Nacoochee,” Tommy Hart Jones does precisely this for a small Appalachian community with a remarkably long history.
Sautee Nacoochee is a rural community located in White County in northeastern Georgia. The community is centered around two large valleys: Sautee, drained by Sautee Creek, and Nacoochee, drained by the Chattahoochee River. This book synthesizes an enormous amount of information from many contrasting sources into a narrative that identifies historical contexts, documents and incorporates site-specific information, and strives to illuminate the lives of the people who contributed to making Sautee Nacoochee what it is today.
This is not a typical “pioneer” history. Jones shines light on the lives of all the people who have occupied the valleys over many thousands of years and connects the deep past to the present.
