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Development followed rails after the war
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While the immediate years after the Civil War were troublesome for the South, including Northeast Georgia, it didn’t take long for conditions to improve. Perhaps the most significant development was the building of new railroads, the main one being from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., in the 1870s. Gainesville was fortunate to become a stop on that line, as other routes considered would have taken it out of Hall County.
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Mysterious white horse rider searched for pot of gold in North Ga.
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During the 1920s, a woman in fancy riding clothes regularly could be seen on a white horse in a sparsely populated area of Banks County near Alto. She carried a map and said she was searching for a pot of gold supposedly left by Spanish explorers decades ago. She wore high-top black English riding boots and stayed with the Seaborn Gilstrap family.
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