With their graves about to move again, don’t forget these early settlers in Hall County - Gainesville Times

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With their graves about to move again, don’t forget these early settlers in Hall County

A small stone marker tells of the 24 graves moved to a site along Dunlap Drive in 1957 during the building of Lake Lanier. Today, a builder is hoping to have the cemetery moved again as it is at a construction site along Dunlap Drive. - photo by Scott Rogers

10182019 CEMETERY 1.jpg — A small stone marker tells of the 24 graves moved to a site along Dunlap Drive in 1957 during the building of Lake Lanier. Today, a builder is hoping to have the cemetery moved again as it is at a construction site along Dunlap Drive. - photo by Scott Rogers

Andrew Thompson came to what is Hall County now in 1806. Where he landed was in Cherokee Indian territory north of the Chattahoochee River, now Lake Lanier.