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Joel Chandler Harris began work at the Atlanta Constitution newspaper in 1876, and published his first tales of Uncle Remus five years later.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

The Battle of Chickamauga on Sept. 19 and 20, 1863, is one of the few to be given the same name by both the Union and Confederacy. The Union named battles after nearby physical features (Chickamauga Creek), the Confederacy after nearby towns (the town of Chickamauga, pop. 2,245).

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The Georgia Peach Council advises that the best way to peel a peach is to dip it in boiling water for 30 seconds, then in cold water. The skin should slide off easily.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

The Carillion at Stone Mountain Park uses 732 different bell sounds to make music. It was donated to the park by Coca-Cola after its exhibition at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Americus (pop. 17,013) is the headquarters for Habitat for Humanity International, a volunteer-built housing program that’s provided 150,000 houses since 1976.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

The Georgia Guidestones, dubbed America’s Stonehenge, consist of six granite slabs, 19 feet tall, inscribed with wise sayings in eight languages. An anonymous group sponsored the monument erected in 1979 near Elberton (pop. 4,743).

first appeared: 12/21/2003

The unusual 1908 Confederate soldier statue at the Stewart County Courthouse in Lumpkin (pop. 1,369) is packing a pipe instead of a rifle.

first appeared: 12/14/2003

Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta consistently ranks as the nation’s top producer of African-American engineers.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

In the 1920s, Bobs Candies in Albany made candy canes by hand, but machines have done the crooking since the 1950s.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball when he took to the field as a Brooklyn Dodger. He was born in 1919 in Cairo (pop. 9,239).

first appeared: 11/23/2003

One of the nation’s largest unicycle dealers is Unicycle.com in Marietta (pop. 58,748).

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Memory Park Christ’s Chapel, which measures 10 feet by 15 feet, bills itself as the nation’s smallest church and welcomes visitors along U.S. Highway 17 in McIntosh County (pop. 10,847).

first appeared: 11/9/2003

In 1940, Army Pvt. Aubrey Eberhardt at Fort Benning (pop. 11,737) sparked the practice of parachutists yelling “Geronimo!” He and fellow soldiers had watched a movie about the Apache Indian chief the evening before their training jump. To prove his bravery, Eberhardt boasted that he’d yell “Geronimo!” as he jumped. The others yelled, too.

first appeared: 11/2/2003

Proclaimed the state’s official pork cookoff, the Big Pig Jig in Vienna (pop. 2,973) attracts more than 100 barbecue teams each October who compete for $12,000.

first appeared: 10/26/2003

Bridge builder Horace King, born a slave in 1807, built more than 100 bridges in Georgia and neighboring states. He moved to LaGrange (pop. 25,998) in 1873.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

A traditional treat at the Masters Tournament in Augusta is a pimento cheese sandwich on white bread in green waxed paper.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

On a 1765 botanical expedition, John and William Bartram of Philadelphia discovered a grove of Franklinia trees along the Altamaha River, returned for seeds, and saved the species from extinction.

first appeared: 10/5/2003

Seven states can be seen at Rock City Gardens at Lookout Mountain (pop. 1,617): Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

Downtown Blairsville (pop. 659) transforms into Fort Sorghum in October when the Jaycees demonstrate the sorghum-making process from squeezing cane to jarring the syrup.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

Thiele Kaolin Co. in Sandersville (pop. 6,144) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of mined and processed kaolin clay, which locals call “white gold.”

first appeared: 9/14/2003

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