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Gospel great Thomas Dorsey was born in Villa Rica (pop. 4,134) in 1899. The composer of more than 1,000 blues and gospel songs wrote the classic There’ll Be Peace in the Valley.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

The spectacular 186-foot-high Toccoa Falls in Stephens County measure about 26 feet higher than Niagara Falls.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

The community of Hopeulikit in Bulloch County was named for a famous dance hall of the big band swing era.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

A white oak at the corner of Dearing and Finley streets in Athens was deeded to itself in 1820 by William Jackson, who was “grateful for its shade.” The Tree That Owns Itself died several years ago, but a sapling grown from an acorn of the original tree inherited the spot.

first appeared: 9/23/2001

Albany, which boasts more than 600,000 pecan trees, is considered the pecan capital of the United States. The city hosts the National Pecan Festival, which includes such nutty activities as the crowning of the National Pecan Queen.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

John Henry Wisdom, the “Paul Revere of the South,” used several horses and a mule to ride from Gadsden, Ala., to Rome in 1863 to warn of approaching Union forces.

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Established in 1771, Kiokee Baptist Church, near Appling (pop. 500), is considered the oldest Baptist church in the state.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

Automobile manufacturer Henry Ford chose Richmond Hill (pop. 6,959) for his family’s winter home in 1925, building on the site of Richmond Plantation, which was burned during the Civil War.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

The Rock Eagle Mound in Eatonton (pop. 6,764) is believed to have been built by American Indians more than 5,000 years ago. At the center is an eagle, made of milky quartz stone, measuring more than 100 feet across.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

Jarrell Plantation, in Monroe County (pop. 21,757), is a 48-acre state and national historic site settled in the 1840s. With more than 20 historic buildings, it has one of Georgia’s largest collections of original family artifacts from that period.

first appeared: 8/12/2001

Crawfordville (pop. 577) is the site of Liberty Hall, the antebellum home of Alexander H. Stephens, who served as vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

Hawkinsville (pop. 3,280), known as the Harness Horse Capital of Georgia, has been the winter home for harness horse training since the early 1920s, serving horsemen from all over Northern and Midwestern states.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton of Cartersville (pop.12, 035) was sworn in as the first woman U.S. senator.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

Blind Willie McTell was born in Thomson (pop. 6,723) in 1901. He earned moderate fame performing blues, ragtime, and folk music, but it wasn’t until after his 1959 death that he earned posthumous fame when the Allman Brothers Band recorded his song Statesboro Blues.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy fame, was born in Harlem (pop. 2,416) in 1892. Before teaming up with Stan Laurel in 1926, Hardy traveled across the country in singing and vaudeville acts.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

On July 4, 1911, baseball legend Ty Cobb went 0 for 4 at the plate, ending a 40-game hitting streak with Detroit. Cobb was born Dec. 18, 1886, in Narrows and died in 1961.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

The Cherokee Phoenix, the country’s first American Indian newspaper, was founded in New Echota—now Calhoun (pop. 8,000)—in 1828. It was published in both Cherokee and English.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

In 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower the voting age to 18—28 years before the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, making 18 the voting age everywhere.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

Paul Anderson of Toccoa (pop. 8,780) lifted the heaviest weight ever raised by a person—6,270 pounds—in June 1957. Anderson lifted a table holding automobile parts and a safe full of lead. He won an Olympic gold medal in weightlifting the previous year.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

Meadow Garden, the oldest documented house in Augusta (pop. 40,600), built about 1791, was the home of George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

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