Keithsburg, Georgia
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Keithsburg was established in the mid nineteenth-century along the railroad northeast of Canton. The community was named after the local Keith family and its Keith Plantation, one of the oldest plantations in Cherokee County. During the American Civil War, the Keith family buried its valuables and suspended its food in trees in order to hide it from the maraudering Union Army. The soldiers found the food and, as vengeance for the family's deception, burned its house and hung the family patriarch from a tree. However, his life was spared by the knot in the rope getting caught and failing to break his neck. The Keith house was rebuilt in 1865 from kiln-dried bricks made of clay from the nearby Etowah River. Today, sadly, the historic Keith property is in shambles, with kudzu covering what remains of the house and barns. (The large rocks at the side of the house are reminders of an earlier time when they were used to mount horses.)
