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■THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, IMI
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That cross between a machete and a cold chisel the fireman
is banging on is called a Reno Tool. It was developed by the
Reno, Nevada, Fire Department some years ago to get to
people trapped in damaged car. A group of Forsyth County
firemen, sheriff’s deputies and Civil Defense workers
learned about it last Saturday during a demonstration of
rescue techniques by an expert from the state Emergency
Medical Services Training Staff. The visit was the final part
of fire department Chief of Training Jack Avery’s course on
the use of the Sheriff’s Department's new first-responder
rescue truck. The truck is loaded with gear far more
sophisticated than Reno Tools and w ill patrol the central part
of the county on weekends, while during the rest of the week
it will be parked at the sheriff’s office waiting to speed to
collision. Avery’s class was over Saturday and the firemen
and deputies spent the rest of the day putting their new truck
in service. The truck was obtained for free by the Sheriff's
Department with a governmental grant.
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Park Holds Guitar Class
The Cumming Recreation
and Parks Department is
sponsoring classes in guitar
lessons for youth and adults
on Monday evenings at the
Kiwanis Building.
These classes are taught
once each week and are pay
able by the month. The fee
for group lessons is S2B per
month with a maximum
three students per group,
and S3O per month for 30
minute-private lessons.
The instructor is Gary
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By JAY JORDAN
NEWS EDITOR
In the year 1815, Jacob
McCarty Scudder crossed
the Chattahoochee River
into Forsyth County.
He settled some land near
Hightower in the northwest
part of the county and by
doing so earned himself a
place in a controversy that
continues to this day.
Some will say Scudder was
the guardian of the lost trea
sure of the Cherokees, the
one they left behind in the
1830 s when they went to Ok
lahoma.
But others will say that is
all “imaginary things.”
The basic facts of Scud
der’s life are known.
Scudder built a store and
prospered. By 1828, he
owned 160 acres near High
tower. By 1835, he sold that
and moved a few miles west
and settled again on the Ala
bama Road, or what is now
Georgia Highway 369.
In 1869, Scudder sold his
house and 500 acres of land
to his grandsons. He sold
what is now Poole’s Mill on
Settendown Creek to Dr.
Marcus Poole that same
year.
Years before that, Scudder
had been postmaster at
Hightower. In 1832, he had
been elected as a Whig to the
Georgia Senate and had in
troduced the bill that carved
Forsyth County and a bunch
of others out of Cherokee
County, which at that time
encompassed all of north
west Georgia.
Besides being politically
prominent, Scudder had
helped start schools in Cum
ming and Hightower. He was
teaching and repairing gui
tars at a music store since
1977. Winkler teaches all
types of music including ac
coustical guitar.
Winkler played in a rock
band while in college, then
moved to Texas and played
in a country-western band.
He returned to Atlanta and
joined a local band that
played Top 40 country and
rock-n-roll tunes. From
there he went on to play bass
in a three piece country band
and then played with a
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Jacob Scudder’s Grave
Is The Target Of Vandals
a Methodist and Diana’s
Chapel, named for his wife,
stood on a hilltop near the
Etowah River. There was a
grave yard there and he
deeded four acres to the
Methodist Church as a ceme
tery.
Today, Diana's Chapel is
long vanished. Part of the
cemetery has been plowed
under and the rest is covered
with brush and second
growth pine. Months may
pass before anyone goes
there.
But Jacob Scudder is bur
ied there, and Diana’s Cha
pel cemetery is a vital part
of our story. We will return
to it.
The 1820 s and 1830 s were a
time of change for the Chero
kees. For many years, they
had been living alongside
their white neighbors. White
men took Indian wives and
raised families and com.
The frontier was moving
westward, and what had
been trickles, adventurers
like Scudder, became an ir
resistible tide of settlers hun
gry for land and not too
particular about how they
got it. The Cherokees had
been mining gold for years
on a small scale, but in the
1820’s gold was found in
quantity at Dahlonega,
which only increased the
white pressure on the Indi
ans.
Soon Cherokees had no re
course in the white man’s
courts. Their land was sur
veyed into the land lots we
know now. Federal troops
arrived and built a fort near
Scudder’s home and store.
The Army left in 1830 and
Scudder was left in charge of
bluegrass band.
For more information on
guitar lessons contact the
park at 887-5655.
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the fort. The Georgia Guard
arrived to keep order in the
new country and Scudder
became their suttler, supple
menting the monotonous ra
tions, and providing a few
comforts. Scudder wrote
long letters to Gov. George
Gilmer in Milledgeville
about conditions and events
in the Cherokee country.
As Indians gave up and left
for the West, Scudder had to
appraise the homes and
other improvements on the
land they abandoned.
A lottery was held in 1832
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and the Cherokee Nation was
given away to settlers seek
ing land. If there was no
Indian living on the lot a
settler had drawn, it was his.
The government wanted
the Cherokees to go. Pres
sure increased, and in 1835,
the Cherokees signed a
treaty in which they agreed to
pack up and leave Georgia
for Oklahoma, land on the
far frontier so worthless no
white man would want it.
In his book “Cry of the
Eagle,” Forest C. Wade
maintains Scudder, alone of
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all white men, was trusted
by the Cherokees. Scudder
alone knew how to read the
secret signs carved on the
rocks and bent into the
shapes of the saddle trees.
In 1835, Chief Rising Fawn
summoned all his lesser
chiefs and Scudder to a se
cret conference at his home
on Settendown Creek, Wade
claims. There, the Indians
decided to build a secret
tunnel and hide their gold in
it. Scudder was appointed
custodian. He would watch
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