{"id":477,"date":"2024-09-19T01:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nice-cori.104-207-151-122.plesk.page\/?p=477"},"modified":"2024-09-19T01:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:53:52","slug":"around-cherokee-the-story-of-our-county-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/around-cherokee-the-story-of-our-county-cities","title":{"rendered":"Around Woodstock | Around Cherokee: The Story of Our County &#038; Cities | Woodstock GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aroundaboutlocalmedia.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aroundabout Local Media<\/a> recently celebrated 24 years of serving Cherokee County by bringing uplifting and local news to our neighbors while supporting local businesses. The time we spent looking through magazines dating back to 1996 left us feeling nostalgic. We started to realize that many of our newer residents \u2014 and some not-so-new \u2014 may not know the county\u2019s history, so we created a lengthy feature in our July 2020 issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8897 alignright\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Around-Cherokee-Cover-232x300.jpg\" width=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the help of Stefanie Joyner and Rebecca Johnston of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockbarn.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee County Historical Society<\/a>, Samantha Daugherty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preservationwoodstock.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Preservation Woodstock<\/a>, Erin Honea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollyspringsga.us\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Springs<\/a>, and artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/category\/Visual-Arts\/AnnaLysa-Kimball-Professional-Artist-2095028827196611\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">AnnaLysa Kimball<\/a>, we pulled together a multi-page history lesson in each magazine, focusing on the localities specific to those distribution areas. Now, we want to share that with you, all in one PDF that you can access online, for reading or printing (see link below). Feel free to study it, and impress friends and relatives with your knowledge. Or, maybe you\u2019d like to incorporate it into your home-school curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the fun facts you\u2019ll learn:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where was Thousand Acre Woods, and what major swim\/tennis <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">community was built on it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which city was home to a former U.S. secretary of state, and a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">renowned physicist and member of the Manhattan Project team that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">developed the atomic bomb?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What area was best known for gold mining, long before the Discovery <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Channel made it popular?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A descendent of George Washington became an influential leader \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as a lawyer, physician, preacher and farmer \u2014 in which city?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which local university once was known by the name Normal College?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Click on the link below to view or download.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Around-Cherokee-The-Story-of-Our-County-and-Its-Cities.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Around Cherokee -The Story of Our County and Its Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aroundabout Local Media recently celebrated 24 years of serving Cherokee County by bringing uplifting and local news to our neighbors while supporting local businesses. The time we spent looking through magazines dating back to 1996 left us feeling nostalgic. We started to realize that many of our newer residents \u2014 and some not-so-new \u2014 may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-477","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundwoodstockmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}