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KKK sign could return to Dahlonega building
Owner applying for new permit
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People took to the street in Dahlonega on Friday to protest a Ku Klux Klan sign that had been put up on the Jeremiah Payne House sometime Wednesday night and then taken down Thursday.
DAHLONEGA — A sign removed from a Dahlonega building featuring Ku Klux Klan imagery could make a return. Dahlonega Mayor Gary McCullough told the Forsyth County News on Friday officials with the building have applied for a new sign after the one depicting a Klansman with an outstretched hand and the words “Historic Ku Klux Klan Meeting Hall” was taken down due to a violation of the city’s sign code. “They don’t have to put what’s on it until they bring it to us to be approved,” McCullough said.
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Where a new subdivision is being developed off Lake Lanier
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Construction crews prepare new single-family homes and townhomes currently going up Wednesday, April 2, 2025, off Chestatee Rd. near Bolding Mill in Hall County at the new Falcon Landing subdivision. - photo by Scott Rogers
A new housing development is springing up off the shores of Lake Lanier.
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