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100 unusual facts about Georgia


1887 Atlantic hurricane season

The storm continued northward, as a tropical storm, before dissipating late on July 28 near Augusta, Georgia.

1887 Detroit Wolverines season

On March 13, after training in Macon, Georgia‚ the Wolverines began a six-week exhibition tour through the South and Midwest.

Anne Hyde Choate

She was also interested in historic preservation which she combined with Scouting when she successfully worked to preserve Juliette Low's birthplace in Savannah, Georgia.

Atlanta in the American Civil War

We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles.

Augusta, Illinois

Catlin named Augusta after having a memorable visit to Augusta, Georgia.

Benjamin Harvey Hill

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1972 and designated as a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973.

Beth Denisch

Beth Denisch (born Augusta, Georgia, Feb. 25, 1958) is an American composer.

BlueBilly Grit

BlueBilly Grit, commonly abbreviated BBG, is an American bluegrass band originating from Maysville, Georgia.

Boar's Nest

The building used as the Boar's Nest in Covington, Georgia, during the filming of the first five episodes of season one still exists.

Box End

Carter landed on the coast of what is now the state of Georgia and settled around what is now known as the city of Americus.

Brad Emaus

Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 18th round of 2004 Major League Baseball draft out of East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia, Emaus instead elected to enroll at Tulane University.

Braselton, Georgia

The town borders the city limits and shares a ZIP code with Hoschton.

Braselton borders the mailing addresses (not city limits) of Gainesville (Candler), Flowery Branch, Oakwood (Chestnut Mountain side), and Pendergrass.

Brunswick stew

A plaque on an old iron pot in Brunswick, Georgia, says the first Brunswick stew was made in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island.

Camp Juliette Low

Camp Juliette Low (CJL) is a private, non-proft summer camp for girls in Cloudland, Georgia.

Charles Pollard Olivier

From 1912 until 1914 he was professor of astronomy at the Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.

Claire Rochester

Her mother was Mrs Jannie Bryant Rochester, formerly of Gordon County, Georgia.

Claudine's Return

It was filmed almost entirely on the American island of Tybee Island, Georgia with a few shots from the surrounding areas.

Cole Swindell

Swindell grew up in Bronwood, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2007 (he still famously wears the Georgia Southern Eagle baseball cap in many public appearances).

Comcast C2 Charleston

The sister stations include Comcast C4, serving the Augusta, Georgia market and Comcast C7, seen in Savannah, Georgia.

Creole marble

Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.

Dan Washburn

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia.

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut

His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth", and he is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota as well as Duluth, Georgia.

Edmund H. Pendleton

Born in Savannah, Georgia, Pendleton received a liberal schooling as a youth.

Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia

The White County Emergency Management Director reported that an F0 tornado touched down in the southwest corner of White County near the Hall County line at the Wauka Valley Farms area, which formed on the tail end of a feeder band associated with the remnants of Hurricane Dennis.

Epps 1912 Monoplane

The Epps 1912 Monoplane was designed and built in 1912 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

F. James McDonald

McDonald served on the boards of companies such as Georgia-Pacific, Halliburton, H.J. Heinz and KMart.

Flavius Josephus Carpenter

Flavius Josephus Carpenter, born March 24, 1851 in Franklin County, Georgia, died August 2, 1933, at home in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, was an American Civil War veteran, steamboat captain, U.S. Marshal, and entrepreneurial businessman.

Fruitlands

Fruitlands (Augusta National Golf Club), American historic domestic single dwelling added in 1979 to National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, Georgia (listing 19)

GA3

Georgia's 3rd congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia

Georgia State Route 31

After they leave town, they continue to the northwest and have a short concurrency with SR 107, a few miles south of Jacksonville.

Georgia State Route 90

In Junction City, it meets SR 96, and they run concurrent to a point just west of town.

Georgia, Georgia

Georgia, Georgia is a 1972 Swedish-American drama film directed by Stig Björkman.

Georgia's 10th congressional district

Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.

Georgia's 24th state senate district special election, 2007

A special election was held in Georgia's 24th state senate district on June 19, 2007 to replace State Senator Jim Whitehead, who resigned from the seat to run for US Congress in Georgia's 10th congressional district's special election.

Georgia's 2nd congressional district

The district is also the historic and current home of President Jimmy Carter.

Georgia's 4th congressional district election, 2006

Johnson pointed out that McKinney has received large donations from donors from New York and Los Angeles, while most of his support had come from within the Congressional district.

Gus Statiras

After the war he moved with her to Tifton, Georgia, and tried his hand at a few other enterprises including a hamburger stand.

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina

Among others who served in the field may be mentioned Jacob de la Motta, Jacob de Leon, Marks Lazarus, the Cardozos, and Mordecai Sheftall, who was deputy commissary-general of issues for South Carolina and Georgia, but who must be considered as a resident of Savannah, Georgia rather than of Charleston.

Hogzilla

Hogzilla was a male hybrid of wild hog and domestic pig that was shot and killed by Chris Griffin in Alapaha, Georgia, United States, on June 17, 2004 on Ken Holyoak's fish farm and hunting reserve.

Horatio Luro

He eventually acquired "Old Mill Farm" in Cartersville, Georgia, where he and his wife Frances raised their family.

Hydraulic mining

It was used extensively in Dahlonega, Georgia and continues to be used in developing nations, often with devastating environmental consequences.

Ira O. McDaniel

In the 1830s he lived in Monroe, Georgia with his wife Rebecca Walker (November 10, 1819 – April 19, 1854) where their son, Henry McDaniel, a future Governor of Georgia was born.

Jerry Vines

Before attending seminary, he pastored his first church, Centralhatchee Baptist Church, at the age of 16.

John Papworth

In the 1960s, he was imprisoned along with Bertrand Russell for anti-nuclear protests, and also was placed in Albany, Georgia mail for Civil Rights activities.

Johns Creek, Georgia

Another local city with this issue is Braselton which has its own ZIP Code and is still in five different ZIP Code areas.

Kate McTell

Ruthy (later changed to Ruth) Kate Williams (also sometimes billed as Ruby Glaze) was singing for a high school ceremony in Augusta, Georgia in 1933 when she was noticed by McTell, who regularly performed in the area.

Kenneth W. Wright

At that time he was instrumental in establishing the Southeastern Georgia School of Biblical Studies in Waycross, Georgia.

Kings Bay

Kings Bay, Georgia, a small town located in Camden County on the southern coast of Georgia

KWNW

They are also the fifth Clear Channel outlet to adopt the "Radio Now" moniker, following 105-7 Hit Music Now/Greensboro, Y102.3 Hit Music Now/Augusta, 97.3 Radio Now/Milwaukee (whose logo is the same as KWNW) and Radio Now 98.9/Louisville.

Landon Cassill

He was one of 16 drivers that participated in the three-stage evaluation process that took place at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, North Carolina, North Georgia Speedway in Chatsworth, Georgia, and Nashville Superspeedway.

Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

Seeing him at a bus stop while vacationing in Savannah, Georgia, Cox was "attracted to him, but not in some kind of like, just physical way." Seeing "his melancholy, his sitting alone, staring at the ground", he "fell in love" with him.

Lifeshape

Its campus is located in Pine Mountain, GA outside of Atlanta, and aims for 20-25 students to participate in a living and learning community.

My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be

My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be is the first full-length album from the Athens, Georgia based rock band Harvey Milk.

National Register of Historic Places listings in White County, Georgia

This is a list of properties and districts in White County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

No No Never

Written and composed by Australian-born band member Jane Comerford, the unusual choice of country as the genre resulted in BBC commentator Terry Wogan asking jokingly and with a rough approximation of the appropriate accent "are we in Athens, Georgia?" at the end of the performance (the Contest was held in Athens, Greece).

Ockham, Surrey

After reaching Liverpool in 1850, following an arduous journey starting with a flight to freedom from Macon, Georgia, African-American slaves William and Ellen Craft were given a home by a parishioner in Ockham in 1851.

Oglethorpe Plan

Though seldom mentioned, notable vestiges of the Oglethorpe Plan can be found in the land use pattern surrounding Savannah; in the cities of Darien, Georgia; Brunswick, Georgia; and at Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Osprey-class coastal minehunter

Twelve minehunter ships were built for the U.S. Navy by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (formerly Litton Avondale Industries) of New Orleans and Intermarine of Savannah.

Oval pigtoe

The oval pigtoe was originally described from the Chattahoochee River near Columbus, Georgia.

Perpetual Groove

Perpetual Groove (or PGroove) was an American jam band that originated in 1997 in Savannah, Georgia.

From 2007 to 2012, Amberland was held at Cherokee Farms, just outside LaFayette in northwest Georgia.

Philip Miller

They were first planted on Sea Island, off the coast of Georgia, and hence derived the name of the finest cotton, Sea Island Cotton.

Pine Lake, Georgia

The corporation sold lots around a small fishing lake to Atlantans who lived in (then) faraway areas like Buckhead for use as a weekend retreat.

Please, Please, Please

In 1952, James Brown was released from a youth detention center in Toccoa, Georgia, after Bobby Byrd and his family sponsored him.

Raven Cliffs Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.

Ray B. Sitton

Sitton was born in 1923, in Calhoun, Georgia, where he graduated from Sonoraville High School as valedictorian of the class of 1941.

Roswell Recreation and Parks

The Roswell Recreation and Parks is a municipal department serving the city of Roswell, Georgia.

Rufus M. Rose

Before the start of the American Civil War, Rose had studied medicine, received a diploma and moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia.

Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

On account of this principle, the city of Savannah was chosen for the organization of the sailing events.

Santa Wheels

Santa Wheels is a volunteer program created in 1995 by Master Pontiac-Buick-GMC and re-launched in 2006 in Augusta, Georgia, United States.

Shelden Williams

According to an officer at the Douglasville Police Department, the suspects were in Williams' car and were attempting a robbery.

Sidney Stripling

At the request of Alan Lomax, in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, John Wesley Work III of Fisk University recorded ten of Stripling's songs at the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival in Fort Valley, Georgia in March 1941.

Sounder

The boy hears his father may be in Bartow and later Gilmer counties but the author does not specify where the boy lives.

Sparta, Mississippi

The film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois while most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, east of Atlanta (and near the real I-20).

Susie Curry

Susie competes at 5'2" and 115 pounds, and currently lives in Bremen, Georgia where she co-owns a gyms and trains clients.

Taylor Hanson

After dating for two years, the two were married on June 8, 2002 at the Ida Cason Chapel in Pine Mountain, Georgia.

Thaddeus von Clegg

The manufactured version we know today was invented in Macon, Georgia, by an African American named Alabama Vest, in the 1840s.

The Green Hand

Chapman appeared in the film version, whose cast consisted of students and faculty from the University of Georgia and the surrounding city of Athens, Georgia.

The Instruments

The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes.

Therm-All Insulation

These include the company’s Cleveland-based headquarters and branches in Lancaster, PA; Columbus, WI; Kennesaw, GA; Dallas, TX; Stockton, CA; Phoenix, AZ; and Kent and Spokane, WA.

Tina Tyus-Shaw

She worked a series of radio and television jobs in Macon, Georgia; North Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, before settling in Savannah in 1992.

Tray Mountain Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Habersham, Rabun, Towns and White counties, Georgia and is managed in the Chattooga Ranger District.

Tri-State Crematory

The crematorium was founded by Tommy Marsh in the mid-1970s and was located in the Noble community in northwest Georgia, north of the city of LaFayette.

Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania

:Not to be confused with Tunnel Hill, Georgia

USS PCS-1376

Later in her career, she was named Winder after Winder, Georgia, becoming the only U.S. Navy ship of that name.

Utinahica

A Spanish mission, Santa Isabel de Utinahica, was established in the chief town of the Utinahica on the Altamaha River, near the present site of Jacksonville, Georgia, in the first half of the 17th century.

Van Spence

Van must have had family in Savannah, Georgia because in November 1883, twenty-seven years after he had left the south, he took his family there for a visit.

Vicki Goetze

Living in Hull, Georgia, she was voted "Player of the Year" from 1988 to 1990 by the American Junior Golf Association.

Wayne Farms

Eventually, the company acquired processing plants in Danville, Arkansas, Laurel, Mississippi, Decatur, Alabama, Dobson, North Carolina, Pendergrass, Georgia, Enterprise, Alabama, College Park, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama.

WDNN-CA

North Georgia Television also owns and operates WDGA-CA (43) in Dalton, Georgia.

The station also has two translators (repeaters): Chattanooga, Tennessee/Ringgold, Georgia's WRNG-LP (on channel 28), LaFayette, Georgia's WLFW-LP (on channel 41).

WDTA-LD

Originally W22AH on channel 22, it was licensed in 1988 to serve Columbus, Georgia, over 100 km away.

WEAS-FM

callsign meaning = The WEAS callsign was originally licensed to Decatur, Georgia, home to two schools:
Emory and Agnes Scott|

White Bluff

White Bluff, Georgia, a former community, now a part of Savannah, Georgia

William Harrell Nellis

He graduated from Las Vegas High School and subsequently joined the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps on December 9, 1942, training in Albany, Georgia.

WKSY-LD

From its transmitter atop the Mack White Gap east of Summerville, in addition to cable coverage, WKSY-LD covers northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama, including Rome, Dalton and Ringgold, Georgia; as well as Fort Payne, Alabama.

WLGA

Its studios are located in Opelika, with its transmitter located in Cusseta, Georgia.

Xtranormal

In 2010, the short film Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman by director J Roland Kelly, animated entirely with Xtranormal, premiered at the Little Rock Film Festival and was shown at The Rome International Film Festival in Rome, Georgia.


1976 college football season

At the Sugar Bowl, Pitt quarterback Matt Cavanaugh passed for 192 yards, and Dorsett had 32 carries for 202 yards, overcoming Georgia's heralded "Junkyard Dogs" defense.

1985 Auburn Tigers football team

Bo Jackson rushed for 1,786 yards, which was the second best single-season performance in SEC history behind Herschel Walker's 1,891 rushing yards for the Georgia in 1981.

Ashley Whitney

Whitney initially attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of coach Jack Bauerle's Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team in 1999—Georgia's first NCAA national championship team.

Azerbaijani Air Forces

Plans were announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and another near the border with Georgia at Agstafa.

Bakuriani

Georgia's flag-bearing athlete at the opening ceremony, alpine skiier Iason Abramashvili, also resides there; he has decided to compete to honor Kumaritashvili's memory.

Béla Károlyi

Among the gymnasts Béla and Márta Károlyi have trained are Nadia Comăneci, Svetlana Boginskaya, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Teodora Ungureanu, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug, whom he is famous for carrying to the podium after she injured her ankle on the gold medal-winning vault in the team competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bobby Peters

Peters graduated from Hardaway High School in 1967, in Columbus, Georgia, and later earned an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, and a post-graduate degree in education at Columbus State University.

Burdell

George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day

Chase Osborn

The governor spent time at Possum Poke in Georgia, using at as a retreat and a place to write.

Christopher Mullane

In the mid 1970s he served as an exchange officer at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Donald Burdick

In 1983, Governor Joe Frank Harris appointed Burdick as Georgia’s Assistant Adjutant General – Army, and he was promoted to Brigadier General.

E. B. Teague

During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.

Elizabeth Key Grinstead

Tara Grinstead, missing Georgia beauty pageant winner and high school teacher

Ellis Johnson

Ellis L. Johnson, Coca-Cola chair professor for Georgia Tech's School of ISyE

Fort Oglethorpe

Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808–1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe

General Beauregard Lee

However, he did have one major miss: in 1993 he predicted an early Spring but Georgia was hit with a blizzard that crippled the Southeast for nearly a week and a half, sometimes called the "Storm of the Century".

Georgia Football Team

Georgia national football team, the association football (soccer) team of the nation of Georgia

Georgia State Route 7 Connector

Georgia State Route 7 Connector (Lowndes County): A former connector route of Georgia State Route 7 that existed in rural parts of Lowndes County, northwest of Valdosta.

Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra

The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra is a conglomerate of several musical groups under the leadership of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Graybill

Henry Graybill Lamar (July 10, 1798 – September 10, 1861), United States Representative, lawyer and jurist from Georgia

H. Lawrence Gibbs

According to Richard Carlton Haney in his book Canceled Due to Racism, the impetus for Gibbs's bill was probably the preceding Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans in January 1956, when the University of Pittsburgh brought a black fullback, Bobby Grier, for the game with Georgia Tech of Atlanta, Georgia.

Housing at the University of Georgia

Named after Mary Ethel Creswell, the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia, Creswell Community is home to male and female first-year students.

Imedi Media Holding

As a proof for their allegations, Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office released, on November 16, 2007, several taped phone conversations between Patarkatsishvili and Giorgi Targamadze, chief of Imedi TV’s political programs, and also between a producer and a journalist of Imedi TV.

Jeff Mullis

He currently serves as the Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority Executive Director (NWGAJDA.COM)and the Top of Georgia Economic Development Chairman.

Medical Center of Central Georgia

In 1960, the hospital became a member of the American Hospital Association, though it wasn't until 11 years later, in 1971, that the name was changed to The Medical Center of Central Georgia.

Merab Ratishvili

In April 2011, Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, visited Merab Ratishvili in Rustavi prison No.6 as part of a visit to Georgia to report on the administration of justice and level of protection of human rights in the justice system of Georgia.

North Fulton High School

Johns Creek High School — a high school established in 2009 in Johns Creek, Fulton County, Georgia, and temporarily referred to as the "North Fulton high school" during planning and construction

Original Town of Fernandina Historic Site

During his invasion of north Florida, 1736–1742, the governor of the British colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, stationed a military guard of Scottish Highlanders on the site and named the island Amelia, after the daughter of King George II of Great Britain.

Pamela Jackson

She is the recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and a member of The International Women's Writing Guild.

Pandura

In Georgia the panduri is a three-string fretted instrument widely spread in all regions of Eastern Georgia: such as Pshavkhevsureti, Tusheti, Kakheti and Kartli.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Pineapple Press

Its catalogue includes non-fiction titles such as "Baseball in Florida" and "Florida's Birds" (a reference book with artwork by Karl Karalus) as well as compilations such as "Cracker literature", books on historic homes, lighthouses, Gulf Coast islands, and fiction including historical novels from Patrick D. Smith and a mystery by Virginia Lanier ("Death in Bloodhound Red" set in in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp).

Politics of the Southern United States

When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama.

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Q100

WWWQ, a radio station (99.7 FM) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Rati Urushadze

He had 41 caps for Georgia, from 1997 to 2009, scoring 5 tries, 25 points on aggregate.

Southern Belting Company Building

Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

The Georgia Melodians

The Georgia Melodians were an early jazz band that was active in the 1920s and recorded for Edison Records.

Virgil Griffith

It was at Interz0ne 1 in 2002 that he met Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech student, who had discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard".

Walden L. Ainsworth

On the night of 4–July 5, TF 18 moved up "the Slot" and bombarded Japanese positions at Vila on Kolombangara and at Baiko on New Georgia.

WFNA

WANN-CD, a low-power television station (channel 29/PSIP 32) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which used the call sign WFNA-LP from June 1999 to June 2002

WPCH

WPCH-TV, a television station (channel 17 analog/20 digital) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States

WRWR

WRWR-LD, a TV station (channel 38) licensed to Warner Robins, Georgia

WSNT

WSNT-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Sandersville, Georgia, United States

Zestaponi

The local football club, FC Zestafoni, plays in the top league in Georgia and twice won the Georgian championship in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 season.