Editing Cornelia, Georgia (section)

===Lore===

Cornelia abounds in historical lore. Near the city is the Wofford Trail, on which many stagecoach robberies occurred. The last railroad holdup in Georgia took place at Cagle's Crossing, which is a few miles south of Cornelia.<ref>[http://www.gabartow.org/News/CN/newsCN.1909.0701.shtml "The Wofford Trail"]. ''The Cartersville News.'' July 1, 1909</ref> The whole of Habersham County was extremely loyal to the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] and was known, along with the [[Shenandoah Valley]] of Virginia and countless other fertile, out-of-the-way places as the "breadbasket of the Confederacy", as thousands of bushels of wheat and corn were supplied to the troops from this area alone. After the [[Battle of Atlanta|Fall of Atlanta]], a detachment of William Tecumseh Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county; but the [[Confederate Home Guard]], made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Union soldiers at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town. By making considerable noise and stirring up clouds of smoke, they scared off the Union soldiers and saved the area from complete devastation. Today this skirmish is remembered as "The [[Battle of the Narrows]]".<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gasteph2/historical%20information%20the%20battle%20of%20the%20narrows.html "The Battle of the Narrows"]. ''The GAGenWeb Project''</ref>