Screamer Mountain is a mountain in
Rabun County,
Georgia, United States, near
Clayton, Georgia
Clayton is a city in Rabun County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 2,003 at the 2020 census. The county seat of Rabun County, it is in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
History
The area that eventually became Clayton was called the Dividings ...
and is the birthplace of
Logan E. Bleckley
Logan Edwin Bleckley (July 3, 1827 – March 6, 1907) was an American lawyer and jurist.
Born in 1827 on Screamer Mountain in Rabun County, Georgia, Rabun County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Bleckley became a self-taught lawyer. At age eleven ...
. Screamer Mountain has an elevation of 2,972 feet.
[USGS Place Name: Screamer Mountain]
mytopo.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015. The entire mountain was purchased in 1971, by Modern States Life Insurance Co.
There are two versions of the legend of how the mountain got its name. One
Cherokee
The Cherokee (; chr, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or chr, ᏣᎳᎩ, links=no, translit=Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, t ...
legend is that a Native American woman once screamed at the top of the mountain all night long. Another legend is that a woman leaped to her death from the mountaintop rather than be removed from the state at the beginning of the
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. As part of the Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, ...
in 1838.
Sources
External links
TopoQuest map of Screamer Mountain
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Mountains of Georgia (U.S. state)
Mountains of Rabun County, Georgia