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Yellow birch and wildflowers dazzle in the state’s only cloud forest on Brasstown Bald in Wolfpen Ridge near Blairsville (pop. 659). Clouds or moisture cover the pristine wilderness.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

Appointed in 2002, Fire Chief Rosemary Cloud of East Point (pop. 39,595) is the nation’s first African-American female fire chief.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

One of the most scenic gorges in the eastern United States is the two-mile-long and 1,000-foot-deep chasm at Tallulah Gorge State Park in Tallulah Falls (pop. 164).

first appeared: 8/24/2003

Fifteen thousand hot dogs and 300 gallons of chili a day are served at the Varsity Drive-In, an Atlanta landmark since 1928 and the world’s largest drive-in with space for 600 cars.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

Peter “Treeman” Jenkins, a tree surgeon, founded the world’s first recreational tree-climbing school in 1983 in Atlanta.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

The Lewis Grizzard Museum in Moreland (pop. 393) honors the best-selling humorist who grew up here. He was dubbed the “Faulkner of the common man.”

first appeared: 8/3/2003

Founded in 1785, the University of Georgia at Athens is the nation’s first state-chartered university.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

More than 2,000 metal lunch boxes are sandwiched into the Lunch Box Museum in Columbus.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

Cast in the Athens foundry in 1862, the world’s only double-barreled cannon was designed to simultaneously fire two cannonballs connected by a chain. However, the balls exited at different times, snapped the chain, and flew erratically, killing a cow and toppling a chimney.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

Comedian Jeff Foxworthy, famous for his “You might be a redneck if . . .” routine, was born in 1958 in Atlanta and raised in Hapeville (pop. 6,180).

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Conservationist Arthur Woody, the first forest ranger at the Chattahoochee National Forest, began restocking deer in the northern Georgia mountains in the 1920s. When told there was no federal money to build roads, only to improve existing ones, Woody and friends hacked a path between Suches and Wolfpen Gap. The government paid to improve and pave it.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

Actress Julia Roberts, who grew up in Smyrna (pop. 40,999) and graduated from Campbell High School in 1985, made her acting debut opposite her brother Eric Roberts in 1986 in Blood Red, released in 1989. Roberts won a 2001 Oscar for Best Actress in Erin Brockovich.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

The first African-American novelist to win a Pulitzer Prize, Alice Walker, was born in 1944 in Eatonton (pop. 6,764) and won the 1983 Pulitzer for The Color Purple.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

Most of the state’s $29.5 million watermelon crop in 2002 was grown near Cordele (pop. 11,608), the “Watermelon Capital of the World.”

first appeared: 6/8/2003

Country music superstar Alan Jackson, who won a 2003 Grammy for Best Country Song, Where Were You, was born in 1958 in Newnan (pop. 16,242).

first appeared: 6/1/2003

The state’s largest crop of truffles, an underground mushroom prized for its earthy taste, is harvested from a 400-acre pecan grove at Magnolia Plantation in Leary (pop. 666). Pecan truffles sell for about $100 a pound.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, born a slave in 1856 in Thomasville (pop. 19,788), became the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1877.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president from 1913 to 1921, lived in Augusta from 1860 to 1870 and his 1859 Greek revival home has been restored.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

Milledgeville (pop. 18,757), the state capital from 1803 to 1868, was designed as a capital city when the town was laid out. Washington, D.C., also shares that distinction.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

In 1947, A.T. Armstrong started the nation’s first cricket farm in Glennville (pop. 3,641). Crickets are sold for live bait and pet food.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

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