Every photograph on Dahlonega Shopping is a real photograph used under a public-domain or Creative Commons license, from Wikimedia Commons or Flickr, with its credit listed below. Nothing on this page or anywhere on the site is a generated image presented as a photo. The shop map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (OpenStreetMap contributors).
A few honest labels
- Several of the photos were taken years ago. A storefront in a photo may have changed hands since, so the shop cards, not the photos, tell you what is there now.
- One photograph is a 1936 Historic American Buildings Survey picture of the courthouse, and its credit says so.
- Where we have no photo of a shop, we show none rather than a stand-in from somewhere else.
Photographs
A crowded spring afternoon on Dahlonega's Public Square, with shoppers strolling past jewelry, music-venue and ice cream storefronts and white market tents in the street.
Photograph Public Square North, Dahlonega, GA by Gwringle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Looking down from the old courthouse across parked cars to the Picnic Cafe and general store fronts on the square, with wooded hills behind town.
Photograph Dahlonega, Georgia by BullDawg2021, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Storefronts on the Public Square seen from the old courthouse, with the Picnic Cafe and general store behind a row of parked cars.
Photograph Dahlonega – Dahlonega Gold Museum – Town Square View by Jared, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The red-brick old Lumpkin County Courthouse, now the Dahlonega Gold Museum, with its tall white-columned portico and balcony.
Photograph Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site by HowardSF at English Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
The red-brick Dahlonega Gold Museum decorated with evergreen garland, wreaths and big red bows.
Photograph Dahlonega – Gold Museum by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The old courthouse on the square at dusk, strung with holiday lights and wreaths in every window.
Photograph Dahlonega Town Square by Ann Larie Valentine, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The Dahlonega Gold Museum sign wrapped in holiday garland and red bows.
Photograph Dahlonega – Gold Museum by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The window of High Cotton, a gift shop lettered 'Celebrating Southern Style', full of cotton stems, pillows and a national-parks poster.
Photograph A Walk Through Dahlonega, Georgia Series by Carol VanHook, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
A shop window lettered 'Coffee Break' filled with garden decor, candles and a vintage yellow scooter.
Photograph A Walk Through Dahlonega, Georgia Series by Carol VanHook, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The brick front of Outlaw Jerky & Trail Grub with an autumn window display, next to an olive oil and vinegar tasting room window.
Photograph Dahlonega – shop front by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
A vintage bicycle with a flower-filled basket leaning against a whitewashed shop front.
Photograph A Walk Through Dahlonega, Georgia Series by Carol VanHook, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The hanging sign of Giggle Monkey Toys above a brick shop entrance with a chalkboard about play.
Photograph A Walk Through Dahlonega, Georgia Series by Carol VanHook, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
A chalkboard sign for The Crimson Moon and a red guitar sculpture on a brick sidewalk.
Photograph A Walk Through Dahlonega, Georgia Series by Carol VanHook, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
An antiques booth packed with an old carpenter's tool chest, lanterns, a rotary phone and shelves of books.
Photograph Dahlonega – Antiques Mall – full tool chest by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
A framed folk-art farm painting hanging on pegboard in an antiques booth.
Photograph Dahlonega – Antiques Mall – farm painting by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
A rusty vintage tricycle with a price tag for sale in an antiques booth.
Photograph Dahlonega – Antiques Mall – tricycle by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
Metal wall art of golden branches with little silver birds, for sale on a shop wall.
Photograph Dahlonega – Metalwork Store – birds on branches by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The visitors center on the square, a two-story building with dormers and a long porch, seen from the old courthouse.
Photograph Dahlonega – Dahlonega Gold Museum – Town Square View (2) by Jared, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The Holly Theatre's marquee and marble entrance in downtown Dahlonega.
Photograph Holly Theatre by Holly Bokash by HollyJoe28, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Antique brass scales for weighing gold in a museum display case beside framed gold coins.
Photograph Dahlonega – Dahlonega Gold Museum – Scales by Jared, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
The recreated assayer's room in the Dahlonega Gold Museum, with jars, scales and a brick fireplace.
Photograph 19-07-042-museum by Dsdugan, licensed under CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
North Park Street climbing away from the Hawkins Street crossing, with a white steepled church on one side and a stone community house on the other.
Photograph Hawkins Street and North Park Street Crossing by Snarblox, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
The University of North Georgia campus in Dahlonega, with a gold-topped steeple rising above red-brick halls across a broad green field.
Photograph UNG Dahlonega Campus 2013 by ZachJBeavers, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
Vineyard rows on a hillside in Lumpkin County with the Three Sisters mountains on the horizon.
Photograph Three Sisters (22124129596) by Thomson20192, licensed under CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
A 1930s black-and-white photograph of the brick Lumpkin County Courthouse on a bare dirt square, with the old hotel behind it.
Photograph Historic American Buildings Survey Harold Bush-Brown, Photographer Enlarged by L.D. Andrew June, 11, 1936 END VIEW – Lumpkin County Courthouse, Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, GA HABS GA,94-DAHL,2-1 by Harold Bush-Brown (Historic American Buildings Survey), licensed under Public domain (HABS, U.S. government work), via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for this site.
The historical marker for Dahlonega's Public Square on the brick plaza, with storefronts behind.
Photograph Dahlonega – The Public Square by Jared, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
An American flag flying beside the bronze Hall's Block plaque on a brick storefront, with holiday greenery in the window.
Photograph Dahlonega – US Flag – stars and stripes by Mike Finn, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr. Resized for this site.
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Video
- Hero film: a 30-second loop of slow camera moves and dissolves across 8 real photographs credited on this page (Gwringle (CC BY-SA 3.0); Carol VanHook (CC BY-SA 2.0); Mike Finn (CC BY 2.0); Jared (CC BY 2.0)). Nothing in it is generated. Because some sources are CC BY-SA, the film is offered under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map
- Map drawn for this site from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Pin locations come from each place's cited source.
Map and parking sources
Streets, paths, water and buildings on our map come from OpenStreetMap, and the green is Hancock Park. Pin positions come from OpenStreetMap or an address lookup, and each place’s details say which. Shops we could not confirm operating are left off the map. It is a planning map, not turn-by-turn directions.
For parking, the city publishes its own downtown parking map with 3-hour, all-day, accessible and loading spaces (City of Dahlonega). Our parking page summarizes it with the date we checked.