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-Georgia, National Register of Historic Places, Stores

The Jones Mercantile Building of Canton, Georgia

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The Jones Mercantile Company was founded by Robert Tyre Jones (golfer Bobby Jones’s grandfather). The store opened in 1879 and was expanded in 1914 and 1921. The store was so successful that more mercantiles were opened in north Georgia.

Image from Empire; Georgia today in photographs and paragraphs, compiled and edited by Emily Woodward
Image from Empire; Georgia today in photographs and paragraphs, compiled and edited by Emily Woodward
Ad in The Cherokee Advance (January 12, 1917)
-Georgia, Cemeteries, Symbolism

Riverview Cemetery-Canton, Georgia

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Located in Canton, Georgia, Riverview Cemetery is one of the older cemeteries in Cherokee County. The Brady Monument memorializes Thomas Brady, the sculptor for the Lion of Atlanta that used to be in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta.

This memento is on Marie Brady’s grave who died at a young age.