1972 Map of Greshamville

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Oconee National Forest dominates this Georgia landscape where Greene, Oconee, and Morgan counties converge. The winding path of the Oconee River is the central artery of the region, flowing past the Scull Shoals Historic Area toward the rising waters of Lake Oconee in the south. This survey captures a rural community defined by its watercourses and country congregations, from the Apalachee River in the west to the small settlements of Greshamville and Wrayswood. Genealogists and local historians can locate several rural landmarks including Fork Chapel, New Hope Ch, and Little Creek Ch. The presence of Colhan Ferry Road and numerous small family cemeteries scattered throughout the timberland provides evidence of older transit patterns and homesteads established long before the 1980s revisions documented the expanding reservoir shoreline.