Nelson

Nelson is a city in Pickens and Cherokee provinces, Georgia, USA. At the 2010 registration, the populace was 1,314. It is a piece of the Atlanta metropolitan territory. The city is named for John Nelson, an early landowner, rancher, and rifle maker. The territory has considerable stores of marble. The development of a railroad in 1883 made the advancement of substantial scale quarries conceivable. The nature of the marble has made it favored for government monuments.

The Marble Museum is situated in the Nelson City Hall and highlights a year-round display that incorporates "cases of fine marble and demonstrates the historical backdrop of marble mining in Pickens County". Numerous stone cutters and different specialists who relocated from either Italy or Scotland in the early years of the business settled in Nelson to work in the zone's marble industry.