Tate
Tucked into Georgia’s Piedmont near the southern Appalachian foothills, Tate is a place whose character is shaped by marble quarrying. This small Pickens County community stands in a major American marble-producing district, where the pale stone has long supported local industry. Tate marble has supplied construction projects across the United States, giving the community a national architectural connection. The historic Tate House, built in the 1920s for Sam Tate, a leader in Georgia’s marble industry, recalls that period of prosperity. State Route 5/515 and State Route 108 meet near Tate, linking it with Jasper, Canton and the wider north Georgia road corridor.
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Few communities in Georgia have a history as closely tied to marble quarrying as Tate. Set in Pickens County at the southern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, this small community developed around the exceptionally white stone of the Georgia Marble Belt. The material gave Tate an industrial name far beyond north Georgia: Georgia marble was used for the seated Abraham Lincoln sculpture inside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Quarries and processing works have long shaped the local economy and identity, while the wooded Appalachian foothills create a setting distinct from metropolitan Atlanta. Browse other webcams across north Georgia to place Tate’s marble-country setting in a wider geographic context.
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