Every photograph on the Jasper Marble Festival Guide is a real photograph used with credit. There are no licensed photos of the Georgia Marble Festival itself, so none of the pictures on this site show the festival, its parade or its quarry tours. They show the places: Jasper, Tate, Nelson, the mountains around them, historic quarry views and marble specimens.
A few honest labels. The Lincoln statue photo was taken in Washington, D.C., and the capitol photo shows the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta; neither is in Pickens County. The quarry images from 1891, around 1906 to 1907 and 1911 are historic images, not current views. Each caption says where and when the photo was taken.
The film on the home page is cut from these same credited photos, and nothing in it is generated. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, by OpenStreetMap contributors. How we source everything else is on our about page.
Photographs
The marble-faced Pickens County Courthouse in Jasper, with three flags flying over a round brick plaza.
Photograph Pickens County Courthouse, Georgia 2015 by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
The courthouse square in Jasper with a shade tree, a marble memorial pillar and an Old Federal Road historical marker.
Photograph Pickens County Courthouse (Panoramio) by Thomson M (Panoramio), licensed under CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Brick storefronts and parked cars on a tree-lined downtown street, with a green Welcome to Jasper banner on a lamppost.
Photograph Jasper, Georgia downtown by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A green clapboard railroad depot with a red roof and a yellow JASPER sign beside a curving track.
Photograph Jasper Depot, Jasper GA by John Phelan, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for this site.
A two-story building of rough pale stone blocks with barred upper windows and a white front porch.
Photograph Old Pickens County jail (Panoramio) by Thomson M (Panoramio), licensed under CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A tall white marble obelisk with a carved portrait medallion, standing on brick tiers in a paved roundabout.
Photograph Oglethorpe Monument, Jasper, Georgia by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Black-and-white photo looking down into a deep marble quarry with stepped walls, workers, machines and rising steam.
Photograph Georgia Marble Company quarry near Tate, Georgia (1911) by Unknown photographer; published in Cassier’s Magazine, 1911 (scan: Internet Archive Book Images / Smithsonian Libraries), licensed under Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Sepia photo of a marble block hanging from a derrick cable above a very deep, square-cut quarry pit.
Photograph Hoisting blocks of marble from the Tate quarry (Cassier’s Magazine, 1911) by Unknown photographer; published in Cassier’s Magazine, 1911 (scan: Internet Archive Book Images / Smithsonian Libraries), licensed under Public domain (no known copyright restrictions), via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Black-and-white photo of men standing on the stepped white ledges of an open marble quarry cut into a wooded hill.
Photograph Marble quarry in Pickens County (Advantages of Georgia, 1906-7) by Unknown photographer; published in ‘Advantages of Georgia for those desiring homes in a genial climate, 1906-7’ (scan: Internet Archive Book Images), licensed under Public domain (no known copyright restrictions), via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A wood engraving of the Georgia Marble Company works at Tate: a timber trestle, a smokestack and sheds below wooded hills.
Photograph Tate: Georgia Marble Company (1891 engraving) by Unknown engraver; 1891 book, page 186 (British Library Mechanical Curator collection), licensed under Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A round engraving of a quarry pit with stepped stone walls, two derricks and a smoking steam engine.
Photograph Tate: Georgia Marble Co by Unknown engraver; 1891 book, page 186 (British Library Mechanical Curator collection), licensed under Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A salmon-pink, coarse-grained marble specimen with white patches on a black background.
Photograph Pink marble from near Tate, Pickens County, Georgia (GeoDIL 324) by Nessa Eull (GeoDIL geology image library), licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for this site.
A creamy white, sugary-textured marble specimen with a numbered catalogue sticker.
Photograph White marble, from near Tate, Georgia (GeoDIL 509) by Nessa Eull (GeoDIL geology image library), licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for this site.
A fist-sized sparkling white marble specimen with a pink blush and a few greenish streaks.
Photograph Marble (Murphy Marble, Ordovician; quarry near Tate, Georgia, USA) by James St. John, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A black Georgia Historical Society marker titled Georgia Marble Company and the Village of Tate, in a grassy lot with pines.
Photograph Georgia Marble Company and the Village of Tate historical marker, Tate GA by John Phelan, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
The gable end of a white metal industrial shed painted with the words Georgia Marble Company and Nelson Plant.
Photograph Georgia Marble Company building, Nelson, Georgia by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A two-story mansion faced in pink marble with a portico of four tall white columns, framed by shade trees.
Photograph Tate House, east of Tate on Hwy by MrGeode13, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A weathered clapboard railroad depot with a red tile roof and a TATE sign, seen in light snow.
Photograph L&N Depot, Tate, GA from Hwy 53 by Gwringle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A long, low clapboard depot with a red tile roof beside a railroad crossing, under falling snow.
Photograph L&N Depot, Tate, GA by Gwringle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A long two-story gym with teal shingle siding above white lap siding and rows of white-trimmed windows.
Photograph Tate Gymnasium, 5600 GA 53 E, Tate by MrGeode13, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
An open-fronted mausoleum of large veined white marble slabs with TATE carved in the lintel, in front of green woods.
Photograph TATE (empty mausoleum, Tate family cemetery) by Lee Coursey (Lee Edwin Coursey), licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A still lake reflecting forested ridges under a pale sky, with two small boathouses on the far shore.
Photograph Burnt Mtn across Grandview by Microtus, licensed under Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A long view from a high overlook across rolling green forested ridges fading into haze.
Photograph Pickens County, Georgia viewed from GA 136 by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A broad forested mountain with the first fall color, above gold and red hardwoods and a green pasture.
Photograph Mount Oglethorpe, October 2015 by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A high view over bare winter ridges in tan and russet rolling toward a hazy horizon.
Photograph View from Mount Oglethorpe in North Georgia by Stephen Rahn, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A cone-shaped wooded mountain rising behind a bright green shoreline and calm green lake water.
Photograph Sharp Top Mountain, Pickens County, Georgia by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A pointed green peak behind a forested shore, with tall white summer clouds reflected in a dark lake.
Photograph View of Sharptop across Grandview Lake, Pickens County GA by John Phelan, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for this site.
A wide field of russet-gold autumn grass stretching toward two forested peaks under soft grey clouds, a flock of birds overhead.
Photograph Sharp Mountain, Pickens County, Oct 2021 by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A rounded forested mountain in spring green above the trellis wires and young vines of a vineyard.
Photograph Sharp Mountain, Pickens County, Georgia by Thomson200, licensed under CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A shallow rocky creek winding through dappled shade beside a curving footpath and sunny lawns.
Photograph Talking Rock Creek, Talking Rock GA by John Phelan, licensed under CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
The seated marble statue of Abraham Lincoln on a tall pedestal under a carved inscription.
Photograph Lincoln Memorial statue by Daniel Chester French, Washington, D.C by Carol M. Highsmith (Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith Archive), licensed under Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A grand staircase rising through a columned atrium with pale veined marble floors.
Photograph Georgia State Capitol, South Atrium and Staircase, Atlanta by DXR, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
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Video
- Hero film: a 30-second loop of slow camera moves and dissolves across 8 real photographs credited on this page (Thomson200 (CC0); Unknown photographer; published in Cassier's Magazine, 1911 (scan: Internet Archive Book Images / Smithsonian Libraries) (public domain); Lee Coursey (Lee Edwin Coursey) (CC BY 2.0); Carol M. Highsmith (Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith Archive) (public domain); Gwringle (CC BY-SA 3.0)). Nothing in it is generated. Because some sources are CC BY-SA, the film is offered under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map
- Map drawn for this site from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Pin locations come from each place's cited source, geocoded against OpenStreetMap. The Tate distance is our OSRM routing estimate.