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Pioneer Island
- September 7, 2000
- Rated 4 of 5 by
katyw from Blairsville, Georgia
Pioneer Island provides a glimpse of rural life in the 1800's. A reproduction of the Wiles Cabin offers an interesting view of the dangers faced by early Georgia settlers.
Kids of all ages will enjoy the petting zoo. The historians among you will be more interested in the cultural aspect.
Maxie Wiles was a Scottish immigrant who settled in the area in 1832. He and his wife along with their ten children and several cousins were not prepared when a band of Seminole and Creek Indians swooped down on their little cabin, burned it to the ground and killed Maxie, his wife, six of their children and a cousin. This raid in 1838 was the last Indian Massacre in Georgia.
From journal Waycross,Where the Ways Cross