These two communities are seldom linked as one. However, they are as next door geographically as Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, the well-known Twin Cities; they are as similar as Graymont and Summit in Emanuel County which merged in 1924 to become Twin City, Georgia.
With spring “right around the corner,” I enjoyed taking a drive up this way recently, following the Chattahoochee a few miles south of Helen on Georgia 75 all the way past Robertstown to Hiawassee. This state route runs from the intersection of U.S. 129 and Georgia state route 11 in Cleveland to the North Carolina line—a distance of 33.