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June 2024 Newsletter: The Lasting Legacy of the WPA

The June 2024 newsletter contains photographs of some of the buildings and facilities in Rabun County that were constructed by the Works Projects Administration (WPA) in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Use the link below to download the newsletter in PDF format. 2024 June Vintage Rabun

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Dillard

Towns in Rabun County Dillard, Georgia Captain John Dillard was one of the first white settlers in northern Rabun County. Like all veterans and widows of the Revolutionary War, he was permitted to draw early in the county’s 1819 land lottery. He drew a lot on the Tallulah River that he traded for 1,000 acres

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