Blood Mountain

Blood Mountain is a Georgia historical marker in Union County, dedicated 1958.

Located on U.S. 19, on the right when traveling north in Blairsville.

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BLOOD MOUNTAIN ELEVATION 4458 FT CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FOREST In Cherokee mythology the mountain was one of the homes of the Nunnehi or Immortals, the "People Who Live Anywhere," a race of Spirit People who lived in great townhouses in the highlands of the old Cherokee Country. One of these mythical townhouses stood near Lake Trahlyta. As a friendly people they often brought lost hunters and wanderers to their townhouses for rest and care before guiding them back to their homes. Before the coming of white settlers, the Creeks and Cherokees fought a disastrous and bloody battle in Slaughter Gap between Slaughter and Blood Mountains.

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Historical maps covering this location

1903 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · N. & S. Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1935 · Neels Gap, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1938 · Neels Gap, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1950 · Neels Gap, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Neels Gap, Georgia, 1950, covering the location of Blood Mountain, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Neels Gap, Georgia, 1950, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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