His only child, a daughter, is still living in Northeast Georgia.
Habersham County in Northeast Georgia, from its creation in 1818, is named in his honor, along with numerous sites and streets throughout the state.
The city was once home to a train station on a CSX line through Northeast Georgia, although the station closed back in the mid-1950s.
One of the community features, Community Life in Northeast Georgia, is an educational and informative program about an area that is not well known.
It is the largest county in Northeast Georgia.
During the 1970s, James and Francis Mathis started collecting artifacts from the early days of those who settled in Northeast Georgia.
The camp exposes local children to the different insects that call Northeast Georgia their home.
Northeast Georgia is a region of the Georgia in the United States.
Northeast Georgia is part of two media markets: metro Atlanta's toward the southwest, and the western Carolinas to the northeast.
Most of Atlanta's first settlers were from Northeast Georgia, though others came from the Carolinas and Virginia.