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Hall Hamlets: Community remains quiet and secluded
Sardis residents kept in touch at church, filling station
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The Sardis Recreation Center has been used for youth basketball games and PTA meetings as well as the home for Sardis Elementary students for a year after the school burned in the early 1970s.
Travelers wandering west on Dawsonville Highway out of downtown Gainesville traverse the winding road that connects Hall County’s seat to its neighboring Dawsonville, passing old country stores and newly built gas stations alike. But about six miles west of Gainesville rests a community that most travelers would pass through unknowingly if it weren’t for a group of service stations and an adequately named road. It’s a community that has kept mostly quiet for more than two centuries and its people are OK with keeping it that way.