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Brasstown Bald, rising 4,784 feet above sea level, is Georgia’s highest mountain. On clear days, visitors can see as far as 100 miles.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

The historic building Traveler’s Rest, erected in the early 1800s near Toccoa (pop. 8,266), was built by James R. Wyly to accommodate the growing number of stagecoach travelers and settlers coming to northeast Georgia.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Noted African-American soprano Jessye Norman, whose distinguished career has led to performances on stages all over the world, was born in Augusta (pop. 40,600) in 1945.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

U.S. Highway 27, which runs the length of Georgia, also is known as Martha Berry Highway. Berry established many schools in Georgia with financial help from President Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

The Chattahoochee National Forest’s Cohutta Wilderness, at 35,268 acres, is the largest federally designated wilderness area in the Southeast’s National Forest System.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

The Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, chartered in 1839, is the state’s oldest cultural institution and one of the nation’s oldest historical organizations.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

A bit of Bavaria can be found in the north Georgia mountains at Helen (pop. 300), a town that revitalized itself in the late 1960s by creating an alpine look and Bavarian feel—a nod to its early settlers. The thriving community hosts millions of visitors annually.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

Fitzgerald (pop. 8,612) was founded by P.H. Fitzgerald, an Indiana newspaper reporter and attorney, who envisioned a Southern home for aging Union soldiers. Fitzgerald bought 50,000 acres and by 1895, settlers began moving in.

first appeared: 4/8/2001

Agrirama, the state’s living history museum in Tifton (pop. 13,800), contains 35 structures that have been restored or preserved as they appeared at the turn of the 19th century.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

Georgia’s first railroad tunnel, measuring nearly 1,500 feet, opened in 1851, running through Chetoogeta Mountain between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Dalton, Ga.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

The first radio station in Georgia was Atlanta’s WSB, established in 1922. And 26 years later, WSB-TV was the state’s first television station.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

Legendary gambler and gunfighter John Henry “Doc” Holliday usually is associated with the Old West, but he was born in Griffin (pop. 21,500) in 1851 into a prominent family. His father, Henry Burroughs Holliday, was a wealthy planter and lawyer.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

Georgia’s first four-lane highway, the Atlanta-Marietta Highway, opened in 1938.

first appeared: 3/4/2001

In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr., born in 1929 in Atlanta, was the first Georgian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. King was recognized for his efforts to bring about integration without violence.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

Carl Vinson, born in Baldwin County in 1883, was sworn in as the youngest member of Congress in 1914 at age 30.

first appeared: 2/18/2001

In 1923, Viola Ross Napier of Bibb County became the first woman to serve in the Georgia House of Representatives. She also was the first woman lawyer to argue a case before the Georgia Supreme Court.

first appeared: 2/11/2001

Cumberland Island National Seashore in southeast Georgia contains the ruins of the Thomas Carnegie estate. The unspoiled surrounding environment is home to wild horses.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

—Hapeville (pop. 5,483), established in 1891, is named for Dr. Samuel Hape, civil war veteran and the town’s first mayor.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

Newnan (pop. 12,497) was spared from the ravages of the Civil War, and the grand, historic homes that line its streets have earned it the nickname, the “City of Homes.”

first appeared: 1/21/2001

Waycross (pop. 16,410) long has been a hub where “ways cross.” It has graduated to Rice Yard, the largest railroad classification facility in the United States.

first appeared: 1/14/2001

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