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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 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.

2013 Petit Le Mans

The 16th Annual Petit Le Mans presented by Mazda was the 2013 edition of the Petit Le Mans automotive endurance race, held on October 6–9, 2013, at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, United States.

Alabama State Route 204

Just prior to its terminus at State Route 21 the road crosses the Chief Ladiga Trail which is an old railbed running northeast from Anniston to Piedmont and then eastward into Georgia where it becomes the Silver Comet Trail before terminating near Smyrna.

Andrew Jackson King

Andrew Jackson King was born in Cherokee Purchase Land in Union County, Georgia.

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.

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.

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.

Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy

Founded in 1885 in Savannah, Georgia, the school was named for Bishop Gilbert Haven, based on an earlier school founded by Mrs. S.M. Lewis and Mrs. M.C. Bristol of the Atlanta Mission.

Braselton, Georgia

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

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.

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.

Charles Mercer Snelling

He taught mathematics there when he graduated, then at the Georgia Military Institute in 1885-86, as well as a 2-year stint teaching at South Georgia College in Thomasville.

Charles Pollard Olivier

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

Comcast C2 Charleston

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

Concord Banking Company

The Concord Banking Company was established on November 18, 1903 to serve the banking needs of Concord, 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.

Creole marble

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

Dade County

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

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.

Daniel Whitehead Hicky

Daniel Whitehead Hicky aka "Jack" was born in Social Circle, Georgia, and very shortly thereafter his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was educated in private schools.

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.

Edmund H. Pendleton

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

GA3

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

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 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-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 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.

Gordon Saussy

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

Harbin Clinic

The Harbin Clinic now has more than 27 satellite offices throughout Rome, Adairsville, Bremen, Calhoun, Cartersville, Cedartown, Summerville, and Trion.

Jakob Heine

Heine was also honoured at Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, where his bronze bust can be found along with those of other polio experts and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Polio Hall of Fame.

Jason Webster

Currently, Webster is the team Chaplin for the Atlanta Falcons and lives in Braselton, Georgia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

North Carolina Highway 106

Georgia State Route 246 (SR 246) and North Carolina Highway 106 (NC 106) are actually a pair of highway designations that run concurrently on a single road that runs from Dillard, Georgia to Highlands, North Carolina.

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.

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The same basic plan was intended for replication in towns throughout the colony; however, Darien, Georgia is the only other living town in which the original design has survived.

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.

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.

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.

Ralph Tambs-Lyche

He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).

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.

Rich Golick

Golick is a member of several civic groups in his hometown of Smyrna, Georgia and practices law when the Georgia Assembly is not in session.

Robert Sherrod

Robert Lee Sherrod was born on February 8, 1909 in Thomas County, Georgia.

Roswell Recreation and Parks

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

Shelden Williams

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

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).

Tavarres King

King attended Habersham Central High School in Mount Airy, Georgia.

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.

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.

USS Quail

USS Quail (AM-377) which was laid down by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia.

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.

WATC-DT

It has also received a construction permit for a fill-in broadcast translator in Union City, Georgia (southwestern metro Atlanta) on channel 36, which was vacated by analog WATL TV.

WDNN-CA

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 Jackson Brack

He married firstly to the former Olive Chancey (1838–1864) of Clinch County, Georgia, by whom he had two sons who died young.

Winfred Rembert

Winfred Rembert was born on November 22nd, 1945 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, in the US state 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.

WNGH-TV

W04BJ Young Harris, Georgia, analog permanently off-air due to equipment failure since May 2008, was at a different location, and had the same facility ID (23945) as W12DK-D because it was flash-cut to digital when it was moved and changed TV channels

WPBS

WPBS (AM) an AM radio station operating at 1040 kHz in Conyers, Georgia

WPNG

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

WSST-TV

Its digital signal only extends 50 miles (80 km) from Cordele, but it's seen on many cable systems in the region, including Albany and Perry.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

With 36 seconds remaining and faced with 4th and 18 from the Tiger 26-yardline, Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former defensive back for the Bulldogs during the 2011 season, threw a Hail Mary pass, which was tipped by Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons right into the hands of Auburn sophomore wide receiver Ricardo Louis.

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.

Eutaw

Eutaw Formation, a geological formation in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi

Fort Oglethorpe

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

Georgia Line

The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress.

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.

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.

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.

Jigda-Khatun

Jigda-Khatun's involvement in the government of Georgia was occasioned by David's departure for the court of Batu Khan, when she, together with the courtier Jikur, was left in charge of regency.

Keselo

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

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Morris Berthold Abram

As a civil rights activist, Abram was instrumental in ending the County Unit System of voting in Georgia, which many argued favored Georgia's rural, white population at the expense of its more urban black population.

Nellie Peters Black

Black's father, Richard Peters, moved from Pennsylvania to Georgia to survey the railroads, as he worked as a civil engineer.

Ossuri khachapuri

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

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).

Politics of Abkhazia

The Council of Ministers relocated to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, where it operated as a de jure government of Abkhazia for almost 13 years.

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

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

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.

Surami

Strategically located at the entrance into the Borjomi Gorge and guarding the road from eastern to western Georgia, Surami became a heavily fortified town in the 12th century.

The Georgia Melodians

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

Thomas M. Green, Sr.

Thomas received an interview with the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos where he claimed the entire district for Georgia.

Vienna, Georgia

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

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".

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

World Athletes Monument

Martin Dawe of Atlanta, Georgia and Dick Reid of York, England were chosen to create the Atlas bronzes.

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