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Amid the Ruins With Horses, Sheep, and Barking Dogs

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JD Breen
May 18, 2018
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Adairsville, GA
May 18, 2018

One decade after the US army pushed the Cherokee out, and two decades before it poured blue-bellied soldiers in, Godfrey Barnsley constructed for his wife an ornate Italianate villa in the Appalachian foothills northwest of Atlanta. 

The discovery of Dahlonega gold inspired the Cherokee removal; the retention of Confederate rev…

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