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100 unusual facts about Georgia


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The back of the album cover contains an essay of biographical information of Stevens from his youth in his hometown of Clarkdale, Georgia to the time of this album's release and gives brief descriptions of all the songs on the album.

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.

1947 Atlantic hurricane season

Winds in Georgia peaked at 85 mph (135 km/h) in Savannah, where the storm caused $20 million (1947 USD, $189 million 2005 USD) in damage.

2007 Pep Boys Auto 500

In that race, which was held in November, Alan Kulwicki drove his self-owned #7 Hooters Ford Thunderbird to his lone Winston Cup championship to edge hometown favorite Bill Elliott from nearby Dawsonville by ten points, even though Elliott won the race.

Angel McCord

Angel McCord (also Angie McCord) (born May 19,1985, Tucker, Georgia) is an American actress best known for her role in the 2014 independent film Salvation for which she was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2013 Madrid International Film Festival.

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.

Augusta, Illinois

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

Auraria

Auraria, Georgia, a town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States

Babyland General Hospital

The Babyland General Hospital looked to move into a new $2.5 million "Babyland General" in either Helen or Cleveland, Georgia as revealed in the White County News Telegraph.

Banks County Jail

Banks County Jail is a historic jail in Homer, Georgia.

Bartram's Travels

In January 1776 Bartram returned to Georgia, shipped the last of his plant specimens to London from Savannah, and returned home to Philadelphia.

Battle of Jonesborough

The Union army began pulling out of its positions on August 25 to hit the railroad between the towns of Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

As Johnston withdrew again, skirmishing erupted at Adairsville on May 17 and more general fighting on Johnston's Cassville line May 18–19.

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.

Braselton, Georgia

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

Buddy Alexander

In 2010, Alexander's Gator golfers finished second of twelve teams in the SEC championship tournament in Sea Island, Georgia, and eleventh of thirty invited teams at the NCAA Tournament in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Camp Juliette Low

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

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

CVIOG is a unit of the Office of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia.

Center for Computational Chemistry

The Center for Computational Chemistry (CCC) is a research center in the department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Charles L. Allen

Born in Newborn, Georgia, he ministered around the state, including 1948 to 1960 at Grace United Methodist in Atlanta.

Comcast C2 Charleston

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

Cornelia, Georgia

Riegel Textile built one of the region's first major industrial facilities in 1966 with what was then an ultra-modern, cutting edge textile mill designed by Bill Pittendreigh in then neighboring community of Alto, Georgia.

Dade County

Dade County, Georgia, the state's northwestern-most, bordering Alabama and Tennessee

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.

David Baulcombe

After his PhD, Baulcombe then spent the following three years as a post-doctoral fellow in North America, first at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) from January 1977 to November 1978, and then at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, USA) until December 1980.

David-Seth Kirshner

For five years, Kirshner also served as spiritual leader for the Hebrew Congregation of Fitzgerald, in Southern Georgia.

Dennis Powell

Dennis Clay Powell (born August 13, 1963 in Moultrie, Georgia) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Egg hunt

For example, Homer, Georgia, United States was listed in 1985 with 80,000 eggs to hunt in a town of 950 people.

Epps 1912 Monoplane

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

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.

Foy Evans

He served as a guest columnist for the Houston Home Journal until 2007, which has succeeded the Sun as the main daily newspaper for Houston County, Georgia.

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)

General Beauregard Lee

General Beauregard Lee is a groundhog that resides at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn, Georgia just outside of Atlanta.

George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter

Carpenter Street in Brunswick, Georgia is named after George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter, in honour of his role as one of the original trustees of the Colony of Georgia.

Georgia State Route 30

They travel through rural areas of the county and enter Milan, inside which the concurrency enters Telfair County.

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-Cumberland Academy

More recently the school has sponsored trips to Thailand and China, working on humanitarian projects with ADRA.

Georgia, Georgia

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

Georgia's 4th congressional district election, 2006

Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, expressed a similar sentiment, "An incumbent who is forced into a runoff is a serious sign of weakness.

Gordon Saussy

Saussy was the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia from 1929 to 1931.

Graveface Records

Graveface Records is an American independent record label from Savannah, Georgia, solely owned and operated by Ryan Graveface (who plays in the groups Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dreamend, the Marshmallow Ghosts and the Casket Girls).

Hardy Pace

The area he settled is known today as Vinings, Georgia, but at the time was known as (Pace's) Crossroads and, later, Paces (now a neighborhood of Buckhead).

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).

Henry Frederick Conrad Sander

This firm continued to operate until the 1970s, briefly moving from Summit to Lilburn, Georgia before being dissolved.

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.

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.

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.

Kenneth W. Wright

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

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.

Manuel Maloof

Manuel Joseph Maloof (1924–2004) was the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia, prominent Atlanta politician and owner of Manuel's Tavern, a popular Atlanta bar.

Marion Motley

Motley was born in Leesburg, Georgia and raised in Canton, Ohio, where his family moved when he was three years old.

Mark Trail Wilderness

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

Morgan Brian

Born in St. Simons, Georgia to parents, Vickie and Steve Brian, Morgan attended Frederica Academy in St. Simons Island, Georgia.

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).

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.

Oughtibridge

Before this there were converting and two paper machines, the site having several owners after the Dixons, namely British Tissues, Jamont UK and Fort James, and is now part of the Georgia-Pacific group.

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.

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.

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.

Ruckersville, Virginia

It was founded by the same family that established Ruckersville, Georgia.

Rufus M. Rose

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

Sarazen World Open

It was played at Chateau Elan (Legends course) in Braselton, Georgia except for 1999 when it was played at PGA Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

Shepherd's Hill Academy

Shepherd's Hill Academy (SHA) is a fully accredited and licensed therapeutic boarding school located in Martin, Georgia, USA, that provides year-round residential care and a private school for grades 6 through 12.

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.

TasRail TR class

The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail Services, Patterson, Georgia for the Tasmanian Government Railways in 2013/14.

Taylor Hanson

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

Thomas Phelps

During the Battle of West Point on 16 April 1865 in West Point, Georgia, he prevented a large force of Confederate forces from joining with their main army.

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.

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.

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc (or VESI) is an American roleplaying games company located in Powder Springs, Georgia.

Wayne Farms

The Dutch Quality House brand was created in 1978, and acquired by the company in 1985 through the purchase of a processing plant in Oakwood, Georgia.

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|

WGXA

Prior to that time, ABC programming was only available to area residents either during the off-network hours (via tape delay) on WMAZ or on affiliates from nearby markets such as Atlanta's WXIA (later WSB-TV) or Columbus' WTVM.

White Bluff

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

William Kiehn

Kiehn volunteered for paratrooper and received training in Toccoa, 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.

WMLB

WMLB AM 1690, "The Voice of the Arts", is a radio station licensed to Avondale Estates, Georgia, and serves most of the metro Atlanta radio market.

WPNG

WPNG-LP, a low-power television station (channel 3) licensed to Pearson, Georgia, United States

Yahoo! Messenger

The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.


2003 Auburn Tigers football team

After consecutive losses to Ole Miss, led by Eli Manning, and Georgia, the Tigers concluded a disappointing regular season by defeating arch rival Alabama, 28–23.

2012–13 Georgian Ice Hockey League season

The 2012–13 Georgian Ice Hockey League season was the third season of the Georgian Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Georgia.

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.

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.

Bill Bates

During Tennessee's 16-15 loss to eventual national champion Georgia on September 6, 1980, Georgia running back Herschel Walker and Bates met on the 5-yard line in a play that still lives in many college football highlights.

Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.

Charles C. Jones Jr. was born October 28, 1831 in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a Presbyterian minister.

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).

Cousin Skeeter

Skeeter (performed by Drew Massey, voiced by Bill Bellamy) - Skeeter is a puppet whose life changed when he moved from Atlanta, Georgia to New York City to live with his cousin Bobby.

David Baazov

After the Sovietization of Georgia in 1921, Baazov, aided by his son, the leading Georgian-Jewish writer Gerzel Baazov, organized Jewish schools across the country and later founded the magazine makaveeli ("Maccabean") which was closed by the Soviet authorities during a crackdown on Georgian Jewish cultural institutions after the 1924 anti-Soviet August Uprising in Georgia.

David Devdariani

In 1992-1993, he began petitioning and working for the peaceful conflict settlement in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia.

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.

Ellis Johnson

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

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 Bulldogs football under Charles McCarthy

As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed.

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'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 2nd congressional district

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

Graybill

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

House of Orbeliani

The Orbeliani were in possession of a large fief called Saorbelo or Saqaplanishvilo which comprised the southern part of the Baratashvili princedom (Sabaratiano), including much of the Ktsia and the Dmanisi valleys in what is now the Kvemo Kartli region of 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.

John Deal

John Nathan Deal (born 1942), United States politician, Governor of Georgia

Keselo

Keselo is a small medieval fortress just above the village of Omalo in Tusheti (historic geographic area in eastern Georgia).

Madison County, Georgia

Ralph Hudgens - Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, Republican

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.

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.

Ossuri khachapuri

It is common in regions of Georgia with a large Ossetian population, such as Akhalgori.

Pamela Jackson

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

Pillow Talk 101

Hopes & Dreams is the first EP by Georgia based rock band Faster Faster, sold at local shows and digitally in the US on April 21, 2006.

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

Roswell King

Roswell King, Sr. had conflicts with Major Pierce Butler when he managed his island plantations in Georgia, because Butler took a more moderate approach to the treatment of slaves than King did.

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.

SpaceWorks Enterprises

SEI was founded in 2000 by Dr. John R. Olds, then a tenured professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stephen I of Iberia

The exterior stone plaque of the church of the Holy Cross at Mtskheta, Georgia, mentions the principal builders of this church: Stephanos the patricius, Demetrius the hypatos, and Adarnase the hypatos who have traditionally been equated by the Georgian scholars with Stephen I, son of Guaram; Demetre, brother of Stephen I and Adarnase I.

Vienna, Georgia

It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.

Walter George

Walter F. George (1878–1957), American politician from the state of Georgia

WAYR

WAYR-FM, a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Brunswick, Georgia, United States

WAYS

WDEN-FM 99.1, formerly WAYS (FM), a radio station in Macon, Georgia, United States

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

Winfield Myers

He taught on the Great Books and Renaissance history at Michigan, world history at Xavier University of Louisiana, medieval history at Tulane, and early modern history and the philosophy of history at Georgia.

WNIV

Former Georgia Congressman Pat Swindall hosted a daily talk show on WNIV for several years, after serving a federal prison sentence.

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

Ya-ha Hadjo

Ya-ha Hadjo (Mad Wolf Georgia ? - March 29, 1836 Florida) was a member of the Creek Nation who avoided forced relocation to Indian Territory with his band by moving south to the Florida Territory where he joined with the Seminole and retained his position as chief.

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.