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100 unusual facts about 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.

1990 Atlantic hurricane season

However, Marco is more notable for the impact from the remnants, especially in Georgia and South Carolina, where rainfall from the storm peaked at 19.89 in (505 mm) near Louisville, Georgia.

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.

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.

Asa Griggs Candler

The Candler Field Museum in Williamson, Georgia has been established to commemorate the original Candler Field airport.

Augusta, Illinois

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

Banks County Jail

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

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.

Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Born in Greene County, Georgia, Fitzpatrick was orphaned at the age of seven and was taken by his sister (Celia Fitzpatrick Baldwin) to Alabama in 1815.

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.

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.

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.

Charles L. Allen

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

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.

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.

Colquitt Theatre

For the Colquitt Theatre in Moultrie, Georgia see Colquitt Theatre (Moultrie, 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.

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.

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.

Eloy Fominaya

Eloy Fominaya, PhD (b. 10 Jun 1925 New York City; d. 8 Apr 2002, Augusta, Georgia), was an American contemporary composer, music educator at the collegiate level, conductor, violinist, and, as of 1985, a luthier.

Epps 1924 Monoplane

The Epps 1924 Monoplane was designed and built in 1924 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

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.

General Beauregard Lee

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

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, 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.

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).

Harbin Clinic

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

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).

Hickory Level, Georgia

Hickory Level is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.

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.

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.

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.

John Marshall Butler

At age 80, he died from a heart attack in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, as he and his wife were returning from a vacation on St. Simons Island in Georgia.

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.

Ken's Foods

Besides its headquarters in Marlborough, the company employs over 600 people in facilities located in McDonough, Georgia and Las Vegas, Nevada.

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.

Miller Lil' Rascal

The Miller Lil' Rascal was a two-seat sporting biplane built by high school students in Claxton, Evans County, Georgia, USA, in the late 1970s.

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).

Non-commercial educational

Two such stations are WGPB FM in Rome, Georgia and WNGH-FM in Chatsworth, Georgia, former commercial stations purchased in 2007 and 2008 and operated by Georgia Public Broadcasting, serving the mountains northwest of Atlanta which previously had no GPB radio service.

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.

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.

Perpetual Groove

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.

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.

Rabun County School District

It serves the communities of Clayton, Dillard, Mountain City, Pine Mountain, Sky Valley, Tallulah Falls, and Tiger, Georgia.

Raven Cliffs Wilderness

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

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.

Ruckersville, Virginia

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

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.

Sea Island

Sea Island, Georgia, an isolated resort island in Glynn County, Georgia

Seth and Willie Fred

Seth and Willie Fred sometimes simply referred to as SWF, is a Comedy Rock, Country, Southern Rock, Parody band from Blakely, Georgia, formed in 2006.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tim Worley

Police held Worley in custody on outstanding warrants from Arcade in Jackson County and Social Circle in Walton County.

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.

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.

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|

Winfred Rembert

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

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

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CULC

Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, a large academic building at Georgia Tech named for G. Wayne Clough

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

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

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.

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).

Leith Harbour

In 1912 Leith Harbour was the site of the second introduction of Reindeer to South Georgia, an attempt that failed when the entire herd was killed by an avalanche in 1918.

Madison County, Georgia

Ralph Hudgens - Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, Republican

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre

The Chief Governor of the Caucasus, appointed in Georgia in 1844, the general, field marshal and diplomat Mikhail Vorontsov, put in train many cultural enterprises.

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.

WAYR

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

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