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I appreciate those who used this blog as a discussion and contact for Vinings history over the last year.This is notice that there will be no additional posting, but information will be left up for a short while before being terminated. You are welcome to visit http://vinings.wordpress.com/, where some further information will be made available from time to time.Thank you

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...Has it that a few want some new "stuff" found or developing; there is a scheduled talk at the Vinings Club on Sept 11th for members interested in Vinings history and preservation.I noted in reviewing a 2006 study done by the county on historically significant properties, that Vinings only had one entry - the Vest Hodge house as "representative" of a period construction style. Otherwise no

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There will be a book signing June 26th at the Pavilion in Vinings at 6:30 PM. Copies of the book will be available, and you're invited ! Copies of the book will also be available at the Vinings Historical Society after June 26th, and if out of town, will be available on Amazon.com under title. Proceeds go to furthering historical designations and programs in the community. Thank you for your

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I 've got good news and bad news,....The good part is, I've been fortunate in some new history of late, which will be posted periodically. Not the least of which was a 6 foot wide map of Vinings done to reflect where everybody, and thing, was situated relative to everything else (prepared circa 1925-35). I've transcribed the legend and digitally duplicated the map.The bad news is, I'll be out of

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Since I've gotten several inquiries on "The Who, of Whom," Vinings is named for. (Is that proper English?) I've decided to make a scavenger game of it. Let's start it this way. So far, the top 4 heard are 1. Civil Engineer, 2. Charge of the Post Office, 3. Station Master, 4. Train Engineer. All are transparent in their implied connection to the railroad. Clue #1: What would not make this a

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There is the inclination in local history to overlay a "Gone With the Wind" version.Peacefully settled, wrongly and destructively invaded, and standing in the ruins with a handkerchief to the forehead, exclaiming "What shall we do..." Not an uncommon, and often repeated, southern theme in many small communities. I read this recently, which has some interesting clues on similarity:The Myth Since

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As the replacement of worn out Civil War era railroad equipment transitioned took time, nobody knew what to do with the engines in the late 1800’s. The cars were simply burned or dismantled as the depreciated, and replaced cheaply (around $1,500 each). The same fate, luckily, was delayed either out of sentiment or indecision on the steam engines – a few of which were left rusting on a weeded

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Submission is on its way for a historical marker in West Palisades of the Park.... If one would like a PDF of request (18 pages), drop me an e-mail at bleufalcon@aol.com

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One of the best descriptive stories I've found on Vinings during the Civil War. I'll leave it to the reader to define "which house" is being talked about.... Martin was a patient, and Fannie Jackson was his nurse. ...Martin seemed to improve a bit over the next several days. “I am on the gain a little.” He noted on July 14. “Have steady but not very severe pain.” Three days later, a Sunday, he

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165 years ago today, Vinings saw it's first train. Only befits the story be repeated...If there was little progress in population, the community was nevertheless advancing in other respects. The State road needed an engine to run between Atlanta and Marietta, and the first one ever seen by the inhabitants of “Terminus,” was shipped from Madison. There was then no railroad from that town, and

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On the reader's inqury as to: Where, when, and how was Vining's Mt known as MacRae's Hill? In Gov. Brown's marketing piece on Marietta and the W&A in the late 1800's, and on some Civil War summary maps reissued about the same time, Vinings Mt. is depicted as "MacRae's Hill." It seems anybody wanting to assign a name to the mountain can (i.e. Pace, Vinings, Wilkinson etc.). "MacRae" was likely

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Enquiring provenance is spreading to Smyrna at http://smyrnarevisited.blogspot.com

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ok....here's one. Given our (and Atlanta's) history, why can't we find the resources together to get a passenger steam train to run from Chattanooga to Atlanta twice a year? I want to hear some wheels turning (literally)....Kay and I spent the day at the St Johns-Settlement area photographing the grave structures there, which may be of interest to some (Go to "Research Sites" down the right hand

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Just so you know:The number working closely on the trail of "Vining," named after - 4Number of Paces who lived in the Pace House after the Civil War - 1Number of Union Troops still buried around town 2007 - More than 1...

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These are some of the prospective sites in Vinings being looked at for historically significant investigation. All are located on old undeveloped strips of private party woodland properties, for which permissions have, or are, being solicited.If you are interested in participating, drop me an e-mail for more information. One or two university archeology departments may participate as well.

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Reviewing a "Photographic Record of the Civil War," found this which I swear looks like this guy talking on a cell phone... ummmm.

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As Southern forces concentrated near Bolton to repulse the on-coming Union Army in 1864, General Samuel G French recalls the ill timing of intrusion;Autobiography of CSA General French, by Samuel Gibbs French 1901From the Southern perspective in early July, General French of the CSA took his retreating back across the Chattahoochee with some irritation as Sherman encroached. On the 5th, “we

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Where is Vinings?I thought I used to know.There were no limits that I can remember. Vinings just started about one place and ended about at another place. Roughly the starting point from Atlanta Road was sorta as you began to pass down the hill and saw where the black community people lived on both sides in poorly built small houses. Robinson’s Crossing at the tracks past the broom factory was “

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This was an "all male" cast performed in 1932 with a who's who of Vinings during the period...

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This is the plaque at Paces West with Nancy Still.This is the abbreviated Story of Nancy Still according to the record:"Nancy and Sally Still, both full bloods, lived at an earlier date on Soaps Creek, but had been removed by late 1836 to Cherokee County, Ga near Canton. These Cherokee had been disposed by GA law in the spring of 1835 of several acres of improved land. Nancy's claim totaled $415

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Pretty much decided to book it - albeit shorter than "Gone With The Wind" - maybe sometime this spring...

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An account of how the South deals with medical emergencies:General Alfred J Vaughn (CSA) Entered war as a Capt of the Dixie Rifles, made general in 1962. At Vinings Station on July 4, 1864, Vaughan was about 150 to 200 yards in the rear of his line behind a battery when he was wounded. After he had finished eating, he was lighting his pipe with a sun glass under a small opening in the trees when

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Nancy Still - a Cherokee woman of Standing Peachtree forced, in the 1830's , on to the "Trail of Tears" with her children. She was a Vinings neighbor, whoms land was taken with the removal of 16,000 Cherokee from their property. 4,000 died.As much as can be found on Nancy Still will be documented. Happy Thanksgiving...

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As this part of Cobb County was settled in the mid-1800's, many or the early settlers from Dekalb and other counties in Georgia, brought with them family servants, and owned slaves. As the railroad was being built, more blacks were pressed into labor along the route through Vinings and beyond. As the Shoup entrenchments were built along the river, these and more (as many as 1,000) were forced

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