Book Authored by Rabun County Natives

Rabun County natives author a book that documents the area’s history through pictures.

George and Vicki Leach Prater, the owners of Prater’s Main Street Books in downtown Clayton, have written a book that examines the history of Rabun County through historic postcards.

George Prater said the postcards, which are from his personal collection, are a great way to look at the history of this area in a time before cameras were readily available..

Postcards show images of things that, in a lot of cases, you can’t find anywhere else,” said Prater. “In the early part of the 1900s postcards were really big, and so a lot of times people communicated by postcards.”

The book, which was released yesterday, was published by Arcadia Publishers as part of the Postcard History Series.