1915 map of Cherokee County featuring Keithsburg

Keithsburg is a small unincorporated town in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. Cherokee County is a County located in the US state of Georgia. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It was established in the mid nineteenth-century along the railroad northeast of Canton. Canton is a city in and the County seat of Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. The community was named after the local Keith family and its Keith Plantation, one of the oldest plantations in Cherokee County. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco During the Civil War, the Keith family buried its valuables and suspended its food in trees in order to hide it from the approaching Union Army. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. The soldiers found the food and, as vengeance for the family's deception, burned their house and hanged 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. The Etowah River rises northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia, north of Atlanta. Today, the Keith property is in shambles, with kudzu covering what remains of the house and barns. Pueraria lobata (syn P montana P thunbergiana) (sometimes known as foot a night vine, mile a minute vine, Gat Gun, Ge Gan and