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Habersham County, GA

Habersham County was created in 1818 from Cherokee cession lands in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Northeast Georgia, and it was named for Joseph Habersham, the Postmaster General of the United States under Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. The county seat was established at Clarkesville, but Cornelia, incorporated in 1887 following the arrival of the Tallulah Falls Railway, became the largest town in the county and its commercial center. The antebellum families who settled the mountain valleys of Habersham County accumulated Liberty Head gold coins, early Bust and Seated Liberty silver, and the obsolete banknotes issued by the Bank of Augusta that still surface in Habersham County estate sales today. The county's mountain terrain limited large-scale cotton farming, but the fertile river valleys produced significant agricultural wealth that was expressed in the coin and currency accumulations of the county's most prosperous families.

The apple industry transformed Habersham County beginning in the 1890s. The mountain climate and soil of Habersham County proved ideal for apple cultivation, and by 1900 the county had become one of the most important apple-producing regions in the Southeast. The Cornelia Apple Festival, established in 1971, celebrates this heritage and draws visitors from across the region. The Habersham County National Bank, chartered in 1903, issued national bank notes that are actively collected today by currency specialists nationwide. The apple industry and the Tallulah Falls Railway created a prosperous agricultural and commercial class whose estates regularly include significant numismatic material. The mill families who worked in the Cornelia area saved pre-1933 gold coins and pre-1964 silver coins through the prosperous 1920s and the difficult years of the Great Depression.

The mid-20th century brought Piedmont College and the North Georgia mountains resort economy to Habersham County. Piedmont College, founded in Demorest in 1897, became one of the most distinctive educational institutions in Northeast Georgia and attracted the kind of educated, collecting-minded families whose estates regularly include significant numismatic material. The development of Lake Burton, Lake Seed, Lake Rabun, and Tallulah Falls Lake in the early 20th century brought wealthy Atlanta-area families to the mountains, and the influx of affluent newcomers brought new estate collections into the Habersham County market. The county diversified its economy around small manufacturing, agriculture, and the growing retirement community attracted by the area's natural beauty.

Today, Cornelia is known as the Big Red Apple City, a nickname derived from the giant red apple sculpture that has stood in the center of town since 1926, and the city's position on US-441 makes it one of the most accessible mountain communities in Northeast Georgia. Habersham County estate collections reflect that layered history: antebellum silver and gold from the mountain farming families, national bank notes from the Habersham County National Bank, pre-1933 gold coins accumulated during the apple industry era, and the mid-century and modern estate collections of the Atlanta-area families who vacationed and retired to the mountains. When those collections surface, Clemson Coins in Pendleton is the buyer Habersham County estate attorneys and families trust. We are the only PCGS, NGC, PMG, and CACG authorized dealer in the region, and the approximately 50-minute drive from Cornelia via US-441 North consistently produces offers that far exceed what sellers find locally. Clemson Coins Pays The Most, ALWAYS! Moreover, Clemson Coins has the largest coin and bullion inventory in the entire Upstate. Others pale in comparison.