Johns Creek Historical Society

HISTORY ACTIVITIES

September 2026
Tuesday, Sept 15 7:00pm JC Historical Society Program "Chattahoochee River Crossings" History of the Ferries & Bridges of Johns Creek

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Outreach History Programs
Outreach programming, where we bring a history presentation to your community group or business, is also available on a variety of topics of local history.

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The Johns Creek Historical Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that depends on memberships and donations to cover operations, programs, preservation projects, archival supplies, research materials, and other costs to make sure Johns Creek history is not lost.

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HELP GROW THE JOHNS CREEK HISTORY ARCHIVES

We are actively collecting items to add to our history archives and research library for Johns Creek.

If you have items or documents that will help record or tell the stories of life in the Johns Creek area during earlier times, please let us know. This could include photographs, documents, scrapbooks, family letters, and other records of historic value. While we always prefer original materials, we are also able to digitize documents and photos, then return them to their owners.

Historic objects can also be donated or we can photograph them for the archives records, if you want to retain the object.

Please contact us at info@johnscreekhistory.org

Johns Creek History

Thanks to all who attended our September 15th Historical Society Program

History of the Ferries & Bridges of Johns Creek

Our September 15th meeting drew a wonderful turnout of both new and familiar faces. All heard the fascinating history of the evolution of river crossings along the Johns Creek stretch of the Chattahoochee, including some of the human backstories.

Lisa Lake began the talk with the three ferries that operated when this area was part of the Cherokee Nation and followed with the ferries added by early settlers after the Cherokee removal. Bob Stevens continued with a look at the construction of a remarkable six steel truss bridges that once towered over the this section of the river, including controversies and disasters along the way to their eventual disappearance.

The presentation was prepared by Joan Compton by compiling information from years of research and discoveries, to bring this story of local river crossings to life.

Bob Stevens explaining the benefits of a bridge over a ferry

Our thanks to the City of Johns Creek and Autrey Mill Nature Preserve for providing a location for this meeting.

We are in need of places to hold our historical society programs. Let us know if you have a space that we could use. info@johnscreekhistory.org

In Case You Missed It . . .

Story of losing the historic Publix Oak in February 2026

Story of losing the historic Publix Oak in 2026

Archive Space needed for the Johns Creek Historical Society

Artist and public art piece commissioned to utilize steel salvage from the historic Rogers Bridge

A Johns Creek Country Club community had their original club house and sales center in a cattle barn

Special program and tour given at the historic 1839 William Rogers House

Charles Summerour's Book includes history of farms in Johns Creek

Descendants of Sam Jones met with Historical Society at Macedonia Cemetery

Filming descendants of the Rogers, Bells, and Taylor families

Resident of Country Club of the South researched the history of her neighborhood's land

Johns Creek Historical Society part of Appen Media's 'Preserving History' podcasts

Local restaurant's exhibit of photos of Johns Creek's past & present

Adding to our history archives with research and with donations

Outdoor history classes for children during COVID

4 Macedonia films-a project of Mercer University, Student Leadership JC, and the JC Historical Society