Cave Spring, GA news and local guide

In 1833 John Jacobus Flournoy, a deaf man from Jackson County, interested Governor Wilson Lumpkin and the legislature in educating deaf children, who were at first sent to Hartford, Connecticut. On May 15, 1846, with four pupils in a log cabin and O. P. Fannin as teacher, the Georgia School for the Deaf began here as part of the Hearn Manual School, and a brick building followed in 1847. During the Civil War the school closed and served as a hospital for both armies, and in 1864 Confederate and Union troops came to Cave Spring to rest and recover. It reopened in February 1867. In the spring of 1838, during the Cherokee removal, soldiers rounded up Cherokee families across the region and held them in camps before sending them west on the Trail of Tears; Cave Spring is part of the trail's commemoration. The town keeps an 1867 Presbyterian church and an 1880 depot. Sources Wikipedia: Cave Spring, Georgia The Historical Marker Database: Georgia School for the Deaf The Historical Marker Database: The Trail Where They Cried (National Park Service, City of Cave Spring and Trail of Tears Association)