Brasstown Bald-The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 Ft. - GHM 139-5 - Towns Co.
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N 34° 52.450 W 083° 48.690
17S E 243017 N 3862695
Brasstown Bald-The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 Ft. state historic maker located at the Summit of Brasstown Bald at trail to parking lot. – Fee Area, but the view is worth it. My GPSr read 4745.
Waymark Code: WM75XC
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/06/2009
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Brasstown Bald-The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 Ft.
The name is derived from the Cherokee word ltse`yi (New Green Place) or (Place of Fresh Green, from ltse`hi (green or unripe vegetation),and yi, the locative. It occurs in several places in the old Cherokee country, variously spelled Echia, Echoee, Etchowee, and sometimes `Brasstown,` from a confusion of ltsc`yi with Ontsaiyi (brass). One settlement known to the whites as Brasstown was on upper Brasstown Creek of Hiwassee River directly NW of this point. The area near the Spring to the SW was once an Indian camping ground.
GHM 139-5 Georgia Historical Commission 1958
View looking NE towards Hiawassee, GA.
Watch Tower at the summit, no access to top.
Brasstown Bald-The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 Ft.