Joe Brown Pikes

Joe Brown Pikes is a Georgia historical marker in White County, dedicated 1955.

On Ga 17 at Sautee Creek.

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On Sautee Creek just north of here are remains of a dam constructed as part of a grist mill owned by Edwin P. Williams. During the War Between the States, to arm the Home Guard, Gov. Joseph E. Brown had made a great number of pikes, daggers on long poles, for close fighting. This mill was converted to the manufacture of 'Joe Brown Pikes.' Though church bells and old iron were given for making the pikes, iron from a forge near Clarksville was probably used too. After the War the mill was reconverted to grinding corn.

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1895 · Gen. map VIII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1901 · Map of South Carolina (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · N. & S. Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

N. & S. Carolina, 1927, covering the location of Joe Brown Pikes, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — N. & S. Carolina, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Joe Brown Pikes

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