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About 150 one- and two-passenger microcars, some with a single-cylinder engine built after World War II with scarce materials, are parked at the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum in Madison (pop. 3,636).

first appeared: 4/27/2003

Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize, who was born Jan. 7, 1913, in Demorest (pop. 1,465), helped the New York Yankees win five straight World Series titles. In 1947, he hit a then record 50 home runs while striking out only 42 times.

first appeared: 4/20/2003

America’s first soybeans were planted by Henry Yonge in Thunderbolt (pop. 2,340) in 1765, brought from China via England.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

Dawsonville (pop. 619) is considered by many as the birthplace of stock car racing, which revved up in the 1930s with moonshine runners racing their modified cars. The sport’s history is showcased in the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame, Thunder Road USA.

first appeared: 4/6/2003

More than 100 varieties of bamboo, one of the largest collection in North America, grow at the University of Georgia’s Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens in Savannah.

first appeared: 3/30/2003

Lacking Bibles, Sunday school teacher Martha Berry painted scriptures on the walls of the Possum Trot Church. The 1850 church is preserved at Berry College, which she founded in Rome (pop. 34,980).

first appeared: 3/23/2003

The Rev. Daniel Tucker, ferry owner and teacher of slaves, inspired the folk song Old Dan Tucker. He died in 1818 and is buried in Elberton (pop. 4,743).

first appeared: 3/16/2003

W.S. and Ethel Stuckey opened their first Stuckey’s pecan shop in Eastman (pop. 5,440) in 1937, and business took off like Ethel’s pecan-log rolls. By 1964, more than 100 Stuckey’s stops sweetened highway travelers.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

After the Revolutionary War most towns changed their British street names, but Brunswick (pop. 15,600) kept its street and square names, such as Newcastle, Gloucester, Hanover, and London.

first appeared: 3/2/2003

Margaret Mitchell’s original manuscript for Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable’s contract, and 40 costumes from the 1939 movie are exhibited at the Shaw-Tumblin Collection Gone With the Wind Movie Museum in Marietta, which opened in June 2002.

first appeared: 2/23/2003

The youngest person ever to serve as Georgia’s governor was George Walton, who was 29 when he took office in 1779.

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Georgia’s largest county in area is Ware County, encompassing more than 906 square miles. Its smallest is Clarke County, covering about 121 square miles.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

The shark tooth is Georgia’s official fossil. Commonly found on its coastal plain, some of these fossils have been traced back 375 million years.

first appeared: 2/2/2003

In 1916, the Cherokee rose became Georgia’s floral emblem. The plant has striking white petals surrounding a golden center.

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Westville, a living history village near Lumpkin (pop. 1,369), features 30 authentic pre-Civil War buildings. Craftspeople in period dress practice blacksmithing, pottery, weaving, farming, and soap making for visitors.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

The state’s highest recorded temperature was 112 degrees on Aug. 20, 1983, in Greenville (pop. 946).

first appeared: 1/12/2003

The tallest building in Georgia is NationsBank Plaza in Atlanta. Constructed in 1993, it is 55 stories and 1,023 feet tall.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

The state’s oldest chartered school is Savannah’s Massie School, built in 1856, which now serves as a heritage center.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

Built in 1721 to defend Great Britain’s southern colonies from the French and Spanish, Fort King George—the state’s oldest fort—sparked the development of Georgia as the 13th colony. The fort, in McIntosh County, is now open for tours.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

Singer Gladys Knight was born in 1944 in Atlanta. Gladys Knight and the Pips had its first smash hit in the 1967 recording I Heard it Through the Grapevine.

first appeared: 12/15/2002

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