When we think of American states going
to battle with each other, our minds are immediately transported to the
dark days of the American Civil War; however, long before the bloody
tides of war ever reached Gettysburg or Appomattox, blood was being shed
in the Appalachian Mountains as two Southern States fought for an
unassuming 12-mile stretch of mountain real estate.
The origins of this long forgotten
conflict — called Walton War — between the states of Georgia and North
Carolina can be traced to the early days of the 1700s, when King George
II separated Georgia from the Carolina colony, using the Savanah River
as the east-west border and the 35th parallel as the north-south border.
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