Today, the area is made up of mainly subdivisions and small plots of land, with very few traces of old home places for which it was once known.
Many of the first families still have descendants living on Georgia Mountain and most of the surviving founding members are buried in one of the cemeteries.
Prior to the American Civil War Ira Roe Foster had purchased about 6 miles of river frontage (including the present Guntersville Dam site) and a large portion of Brindlee Mountain.
Many had lost their money and households, and that part of Georgia through which General Sherman's army had marched was almost completely devastated.
He invited a number of friends to join him and they settled on that part of Brindlee Mountain which lies east of 'Long Hollow' and was at that time largely uninhabited wilderness.
While there appear to have been inhabitants of some parts of Georgia Mountain for some years prior to the Civil War, its main settlement and its name came afterwards.
For several years all the settlement's supplies came on the Tennessee River to the landing and were carried up the mountain on wagons via that route – that road has ceased to exist.
The road was finally extended down the other side of the mountain to Guntersville when Foster requested Gov.
The engineer was Albert M. Ayres, Sr. who married Foster's daughter and made the mountain his home.