Brasstown Bald: The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 ft.

Brasstown Bald: The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 ft. is a Georgia historical marker in Towns County, dedicated 1958.

Half a mile north of Brasstown Bald Vistor's Center Parking Lot near Blairsville.

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The name is derived from the Cherokee word ltse'yi (New Green Place) or (Place of Fresh Green), from ltse'hi (green or unripe vegetation), and yi, the locative. It occurs in several places in the old Cherokee country, variously spelled Echia, Echoee, Etchowee, and sometimes "Brasstown," from a confusion of ltse'yi with Untsaiyi (brass). One settlement known to the whites as Brasstown was on upper Brasstown Creek of Hiwassee River directly NW of this point. The area near the Spring to the SW was once an Indian camping ground.

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1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · N. & S. Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1935 · Jacks Gap, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1938 · Jacks Gap, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Dahlonega, Georgia, 1903, covering the location of Brasstown Bald: The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 ft., with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Dahlonega, Georgia, 1903, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Brasstown Bald: The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 ft.

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