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—With $200, single mother Paula Deen put her Southern cooking expertise to work and opened The Bag Lady catering service in Savannah in 1989. Today, the celebrity chef has a buffet of cooking enterprises, including Paula’s Home Cooking television show, Cooking With Paula Deen magazine and two restaurants.

first appeared: 3/11/2007

—When the Ford plant in Hapeville (pop. 6,180) closed in October, the last Taurus off the assembly line was sold to Chick-fil-A restaurant chain founder Truett Cathy, who credited the success of his first restaurant, the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, with business from Ford plant workers. The last Taurus is on display at Chick-fil-A headquarters in Atlanta.

first appeared: 2/27/2007

—The Waving Girl statue in Savannah immortalizes Florence Martus (1869-1943), who lived near the entrance to Savannah Harbor and, according to local lore, waved to every ship entering and leaving the harbor for 44 years.

first appeared: 2/11/2007

—Aptly named Goliath, a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia theme park in Atlanta doesn’t fit inside the park. During its ride across 8.5 acres, the coaster reaches speeds of 70 mph and heights of 200 feet while traveling through treetops beyond the park grounds.

first appeared: 1/28/2007

A 7-foot bronze statue of musician Otis Redding, best remembered for his soulful song “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” is in Gateway Park in Macon. Redding, who was born in 1941 in Dawson (pop. 5,058), recorded the song four days before he died in an airplane crash in 1967.

first appeared: 1/14/2007

—Columbus Northern Little League All-Stars pitched, fielded and swung their way to win the Little League World Series in August, beating a team from Kawaguchi City, Japan, 2-1 in South Williamsport, Pa. Kyle Carter, 12, became the first pitcher to win four games in the World Series.

first appeared: 12/17/2006

—At 105, Bill Hargrove of Clermont (pop. 419) is the oldest bowler certified by the United States Bowling Congress and bowls at Yonah Lanes in Cleveland (pop. 1,907). He began the sport in 1924.

first appeared: 12/3/2006

—The two-story log house of John Ross, first chief of the Cherokee Nation, is preserved in Rossville (pop. 3,511). Ross developed the Cherokee constitution, modeled after that of the United States, and served as chief from 1828 until his death in 1866. His log house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

first appeared: 11/19/2006

—Billed as the world’s largest drive-in theater, the Wilderness Outdoor Movie Theater in Trenton (pop. 1,942) opened in July on 45 acres. The 50-by-100-foot screen is mounted on posts that are eight stories high. The landscape was designed at a slope, similar to stadium seating.

first appeared: 11/5/2006

—Bobby Cleveland of Locust Grove (pop. 2,322) doesn’t let any grass grow under his feet as an eight-time champion of the STA-BIL National Lawn Mower Racing Series. He has reached speeds of 85 miles per hour on a souped-up lawn mower.

first appeared: 10/22/2006

—Treetop camping is offered by Dancing with Trees, a recreational business owned by Genevieve Summers of Alto (pop. 876). Campers spend the night several stories aloft among the limbs in canvas hammocks with owls and the moon for company.

first appeared: 10/8/2006

Fort Mountain State Park, east of Chatsworth (pop. 3,531), got its name from an ancient 855-foot-long rock wall that stands on the highest point of the mountain. Archaeologists speculate that the wall was built hundreds of years ago by American Indians as a fortification or for religious ceremonies.

first appeared: 9/24/2006

A stand of rare American chestnut trees, which somehow escaped a blight that killed most of the species in the early 1900s, was discovered earlier this year along a hiking trail near President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs (pop. 485).

first appeared: 9/10/2006

A new $2 million Western-style town built on 400 acres near Unadilla (pop. 2,772) caters strictly to motorcyclists. Known as Angel City, the town held its inaugural Angels Rally and Music Festival in April, with about 17,000 bikers attending.

first appeared: 8/27/2006

Colquitt (pop. 1,939) is known as the "Mayhaw Capital of the World." Mayhaw fruit trees grow wild in the region's swamps where the tart red fruit is harvested by hand or net and savored in jellies and jams.

first appeared: 8/13/2006

The world's largest grower of muscadine grapes, a wild grape native to the Southeast, is Paulk Vineyards near Ocilla (pop. 3,270). The sixth-generation family vineyard sells wines, juices and other heart-healthy grape dietary supplements.

first appeared: 7/30/2006

Charles D. Tillman, a composer and publisher of Southern gospel music, is best known for writing the music to the 1890s songs "Life's Railway to Heaven" and "My Mother's Bible." He died in 1943 and is buried in Atlanta.

first appeared: 7/16/2006

Georgia National Cemetery between Cartersville (pop. 15,925) and Canton (pop. 7,709) is one of the nation's newest national cemeteries. The late Scott Hudgens, an Atlanta World War II veteran and philanthropist, donated 775 acres for the cemetery, which opened in April.

first appeared: 7/2/2006

The South's oldest public art museum, the 1886 Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, expanded in March with the opening of the Jepson Center for the Arts. The building includes gallery space, education studios, an auditorium, café and store.

first appeared: 6/25/2006

The 76,481 spectators who watched the U.S. women's Olympic soccer team win a gold medal at Sanford Stadium in Athens on Aug. 1, 1996, was at the time the largest crowd ever assembled for a women's sports event.

first appeared: 6/4/2006

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