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The following materials are available for in-house use:
Local Newspapers (Original issues, on microfilm, or in bound volumes)
- The Clayton Tribune - all extant issues from 1899 - present
- The Advertiser, 1882
- The Clarkesville Advertiser, 1882-1911
- The Tri-County Advertiser, 1913-1925
- Northeast Georgian - 1857
- North Georgia Weekly Press - issues from the 1950s
- Miscellaneous early Georgia newspapers, including extant issues of The Clayton Argus
Local History, including:
- Sketches of Rabun Co. History - Andrew Jackson Ritchie
- Rabun Co. Ga. & its People, Vol. 1
- Genealogy Extracted from Forest Service Court Cases in Rabun Co. - Susan Lewis Koyle
- A Pictorial History of Rabun Co. - Cuba S. McKay
- Foxfire Magazine
- Scrapbooks from Rabun Maternity Hospital, the Music Club, and others
- Yearbooks from Rabun Co. High School, among others
- Plus a host of other books on surrounding counties...
Rabun Co. Records, including:
- A select group of cemetery surveys
- Surviving U.S. population schedules for Rabun Co.
- Select 19th century tax & court records
- Copies of the original land lot & district maps
Family history books and folders, including the families of:
- Beck, Chastain, Dillard, Eller, Gragg, Hamby, Turpen/Turpin, Whitmire & many more
We also have a growing number of essential reference books on specific aspects of genealogical
research, such as The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual by the Board for Certification of Genealogists, The Source:
A Guidebook of American Genealogy by Loretto Dennis Szucs, & Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources
by Alice Eichholz.
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