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BOOK ABOUT "GEORGIA'S ALPINE VILLAGE"THE
BOOK ABOUT "GEORGIA'S ALPINE VILLAGE"
After wandering among Helen's Bavarian buildings and perhaps enjoying the revelry of Oktoberfest, many visitors naturally ask how Helen became "Georgia's Alpine Village". There's a tale behind the architecture, of course, and it is recounted in The Story of HELEN and Thereabouts. And from even earlier times, little remains in modern Helen to suggest that Main Street follows the route of an ancient Indian trading path, that pioneers once labored here to claim fields from a mountain wilderness, or that the shrieking whistles of trains and the belching smokestacks of a huge sawmill shaped valley life in an age of steam. Although the great Georgia Gold Rush overturned the valley floors and left scars on the surrounding hillsides, it's not generally recognized that the Helen area saw as much prospecting and speculation as any other part of the Georgia gold region. Together, these events are the Story of Helen.
There are a lot of interesting things in the Helen area as well. Readers will find information and history on these sites listed on the opposing map:
The Story OF HELEN and Thereabouts is available at selected stores in the Helen area, including the Red Door gift shop in Helen, the Helen Welcome Center, Betty's Country Store, Gourdcraft Originals, Old Sautee Store, the Dahlonega Gold Musuem, and at the Unicoi State Park gift shop. To order from Amazon.com, click on the link below:
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