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• Welcome

Welcome

to Blairsville-Union County!

Where Mountains & Memories Meet

Come for the stunning views and stay for the unforgettable
Steve Rowe
experiences. Our community boasts a quality of life that President/CEO
includes endless outdoor activities, vibrant festivals, Blairsville-Union County
Chamber of Commerce
new wineries and breweries, award-winning healthcare,
top-notch schools, and business-friendly opportunities.

Blairsville-Union County is the ideal
place to raise a family, start or expand
a business, or enjoy your retirement.
We have a five-star healthcare facility, a
leading school system that includes an
innovative College & Career Academy,
and recreational facilities for everyone.
You can enjoy it all with one of the lowest
property tax rates in Georgia.
Our business community is well-
connected, both personally and
technologically, with fiber internet being
ur many festivals, such as the For a more reflective environment, enjoy installed throughout the county. We
Mountain Heritage Festival, the solitude of Brasstown Bald, Georgia’s continue to build the infrastructure to
OButternut Creek Festival, and highest peak, or explore Vogel State Park, support a diverse range of businesses,
Sorghum Festival, offer something for one of the oldest parks in Georgia. Feel the including numerous manufacturing
everyone. Where else can you churn spray of our beautiful waterfalls or cast a line facilities alongside a thriving hospitality
butter, enter a seed-spitting contest, in some of the best trout streams around. and tourism industry.
and saw logs with a two-man buck Relax with a glass from one of our award- The true heart of our community lies
saw? Or perhaps you would prefer to winning wineries, whether on the porch of in the people. We hope you will join us
kick up your heels at the Sorghum a rental cabin with spectacular views or and weave yourself into the fabric of our
Square Dance! around a firepit at a cozy campsite. vibrant community.

The Georgia General Union County The Civilian Conservation Corps The Tennessee Valley North Georgia Technical
Assembly names delegates vote builds structures at Vogel State Authority dams the College opens its
Blairsville the Union against Georgia’s Park, Lake Winfield Scott, & the Nottely River to create Blairsville campus.
Gold is discovered! County seat. The secession from the Walasi-Yi Interpretive Center Lake Nottely for
White settlers flock town is named either United States, but on the Appalachian Trail. The hydroelectric power &
to the Cherokee for Revolutionary Georgia secedes Appalachian Trail is completed. flood control. Blairsville celebrates
territory for what is War veteran James regardless. Like The U.S. 200 years!
said to be the purest Blair or journalist & many mountain The Union County government The Zell Miller
creates the
gold of the North presidential advisor communities, Union Courthouse is rebuilt Mountain Parkway,
Georgia Gold Rush. Frances Blair. County is a mix of a third time after Chattahoochee GA Highway 515, 55th anniversary of
National Forest,
Union & Confederate burning in 1898. conserving nearly is completed & the Blairsville Sorghum
After the U.S. removes supporters. Today it houses 867,000 acres. connects the North Festival, our longest
the Cherokee Nation the Union County First road Georgia Mountains running celebration.
from their lands, Union Historical Society & is paved in to Atlanta.
County is created museum. Blairsville.
during the Georgia
Land Lottery.
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