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CD package relates stories of area locations

Johnny Kytle was a native of Clermont in Hall County and a pioneer daredevil pilot who carried the mail between Atlanta and Richmond, Va. Read More
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CD package relates stories of area places like Dip

Johnny Kytle was a native of Clermont in Hall County and a pioneer daredevil pilot who carried the mail between Atlanta and Richmond, Va. Read More
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Prior Street was named for Hall judge

Prior Street is one of Gainesville’s most important streets. It connects the northside of town to the southside. It runs from Hunter Street near St. Paul United Methodist Church on Summit Street, to City Park and the Civic Center. Read More
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Hero reticent about his heroics during World War II

Bob Dollar said Jason Nix was an ordinary man, the kind who goes about his work and lives humbly and without much fanfare or attention. Read More
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Poodle at large: Owner seeks pet lost for months

Poodle at large: Owner seeks pet lost for months

If you’d lost a dog six months ago, chances are you would have given up finding it by now and moved on. Read More
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Family’s lives rotated around a 5-and-dime

You don’t see many 5-and-10-cent stores anymore like McLellan’s, which was such an anchor in downtown Gainesville over several decades. Read More
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Mill villagers had hard life, yet had fun

With no television, limited transportation and very little money, children growing up in the Gainesville Mill village in the 1940s, ’50s and beyond “made do.” Read More
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Do diamonds remain hidden in Hall’s soils?

A century and a half ago this month, the Civil War began officially with the shelling of Fort Sumter, but as embroiled as the nation was in the turmoil of the times, Hall Countians had diamonds on their minds and in their mines. Read More
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Lawyer lost friends fighting for Cherokees

One of the little known, but most controversial figures in Hall County history was a lawyer named William H. Underwood. Read More
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