Kirby-Quinton Cabin
Stephen Kirby originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina, moved to Pickens County in 1862 and purchased the Dunbean property. His family chose not to move to North Georgia, and after seven years he divorced his wife and married Mary Mann in 1869. Kirby established the first school in Jasper-Kirby Academy. He paid all the school bill, until shortly before his death. He and wife Mary were active in the Jasper Methodist Church and are buried in the church's cemetery. Furnishing in the cabin came from the Williams Family from the Yellow Creek Community. Additional restoration was done in 2006. Pickens County Master Gardeners designed and maintain the heritage garden at the cabin.
Credit for preserving the cabin belongs to the late Congressman Ed Jenkins. When it was discovered among the ruins of a burned out homestead on Dunbean Hill south of Jasper Jenkins gave the cabin to Tom Quinton, a teacher at Jasper Elementary School. Quinton used the cabin to used the cabin to teach Pickens County students about their mountain heritage. After his death, the school system transferred the cabin to the Marble Valley Historical Society, and it was moved to its present place next to the Old Pickens County Jail. It is believed that the cabin belonged to Charles "Tsali" Dunbean, a Cherokee who was relocated to Oklahoma with the rest of the Native Americans in North Georgia in 1838. Stephen Kirby originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina, moved to Pickens County in 1862 and purchased the Dunbean property. His family chose not to move to North Georgia, and after seven years he divorced his wife and married Mary Mann in 1869. Kirby established the first school in Jasper-Kirby Academy. He paid all the school bill, until shortly before his death. He and wife Mary were active in the Jasper Methodist Church and are buried in the church's cemetery. Furnishing in the cabin came from the Williams Family from the Yellow Creek Community. Additional restoration was done in 2006. Pickens County Master Gardeners designed and maintain the heritage garden at the cabin.