The storm continued northward, as a tropical storm, before dissipating late on July 28 near Augusta, Georgia.
Winds in Georgia peaked at 85 mph (135 km/h) in Savannah, where the storm caused $20 million (1947 USD, $189 million 2005 USD) in damage.
In that race, which was held in November, Alan Kulwicki drove his self-owned #7 Hooters Ford Thunderbird to his lone Winston Cup championship to edge hometown favorite Bill Elliott from nearby Dawsonville by ten points, even though Elliott won the race.
Just prior to its terminus at State Route 21 the road crosses the Chief Ladiga Trail which is an old railbed running northeast from Anniston to Piedmont and then eastward into Georgia where it becomes the Silver Comet Trail before terminating near Smyrna.
Alfred L. Jenkins was an American diplomat, lecturer and author, born September 14, 1916 in Manchester, Georgia.
Angel McCord (also Angie McCord) (born May 19,1985, Tucker, Georgia) is an American actress best known for her role in the 2014 independent film Salvation for which she was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2013 Madrid International Film Festival.
She was also interested in historic preservation which she combined with Scouting when she successfully worked to preserve Juliette Low's birthplace in Savannah, Georgia.
We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles.
Catlin named Augusta after having a memorable visit to Augusta, Georgia.
The Babyland General Hospital looked to move into a new $2.5 million "Babyland General" in either Helen or Cleveland, Georgia as revealed in the White County News Telegraph.
The FBI set up their base in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett’s county seat, and more than 100 agents spread out through the area in an attempt to find her, digging the ground with their hands and anything they could find to use.
The Union army began pulling out of its positions on August 25 to hit the railroad between the towns of Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.
Born in Greene County, Georgia, Fitzpatrick was orphaned at the age of seven and was taken by his sister (Celia Fitzpatrick Baldwin) to Alabama in 1815.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1972 and designated as a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973.
BlueBilly Grit, commonly abbreviated BBG, is an American bluegrass band originating from Maysville, Georgia.
Founded in 1885 in Savannah, Georgia, the school was named for Bishop Gilbert Haven, based on an earlier school founded by Mrs. S.M. Lewis and Mrs. M.C. Bristol of the Atlanta Mission.
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 18th round of 2004 Major League Baseball draft out of East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia, Emaus instead elected to enroll at Tulane University.
The town borders the city limits and shares a ZIP code with Hoschton.
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Braselton borders the mailing addresses (not city limits) of Gainesville (Candler), Flowery Branch, Oakwood (Chestnut Mountain side), and Pendergrass.
A plaque on an old iron pot in Brunswick, Georgia, says the first Brunswick stew was made in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island.
Camp Juliette Low (CJL) is a private, non-proft summer camp for girls in Cloudland, Georgia.
Born in Newborn, Georgia, he ministered around the state, including 1948 to 1960 at Grace United Methodist in Atlanta.
Charles Mercer Snelling (November 3, 1862 – September 19, 1939) was the Chancellor of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia from 1925 to 1932 and the first Chancellor of the Georgia Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (1932–1933).
It was filmed almost entirely on the American island of Tybee Island, Georgia with a few shots from the surrounding areas.
Swindell grew up in Bronwood, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2007 (he still famously wears the Georgia Southern Eagle baseball cap in many public appearances).
Riegel Textile built one of the region's first major industrial facilities in 1966 with what was then an ultra-modern, cutting edge textile mill designed by Bill Pittendreigh in then neighboring community of Alto, Georgia.
His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth", and he is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota as well as Duluth, Georgia.
After his PhD, Baulcombe then spent the following three years as a post-doctoral fellow in North America, first at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) from January 1977 to November 1978, and then at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, USA) until December 1980.
For five years, Kirshner also served as spiritual leader for the Hebrew Congregation of Fitzgerald, in Southern Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Pendleton received a liberal schooling as a youth.
The White County Emergency Management Director reported that an F0 tornado touched down in the southwest corner of White County near the Hall County line at the Wauka Valley Farms area, which formed on the tail end of a feeder band associated with the remnants of Hurricane Dennis.
Eloy Fominaya, PhD (b. 10 Jun 1925 New York City; d. 8 Apr 2002, Augusta, Georgia), was an American contemporary composer, music educator at the collegiate level, conductor, violinist, and, as of 1985, a luthier.
He served as a guest columnist for the Houston Home Journal until 2007, which has succeeded the Sun as the main daily newspaper for Houston County, Georgia.
Georgia's 3rd congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia
Carpenter Street in Brunswick, Georgia is named after George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter, in honour of his role as one of the original trustees of the Colony of Georgia.
In Junction City, it meets SR 96, and they run concurrent to a point just west of town.
More recently the school has sponsored trips to Thailand and China, working on humanitarian projects with ADRA.
Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.
A special election was held in Georgia's 24th state senate district on June 19, 2007 to replace State Senator Jim Whitehead, who resigned from the seat to run for US Congress in Georgia's 10th congressional district's special election.
Saussy was the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia from 1929 to 1931.
After the war he moved with her to Tifton, Georgia, and tried his hand at a few other enterprises including a hamburger stand.
This firm continued to operate until the 1970s, briefly moving from Summit to Lilburn, Georgia before being dissolved.
Hickory Level is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.
Hogzilla was a male hybrid of wild hog and domestic pig that was shot and killed by Chris Griffin in Alapaha, Georgia, United States, on June 17, 2004 on Ken Holyoak's fish farm and hunting reserve.
It was used extensively in Dahlonega, Georgia and continues to be used in developing nations, often with devastating environmental consequences.
In the 1830s he lived in Monroe, Georgia with his wife Rebecca Walker (November 10, 1819 – April 19, 1854) where their son, Henry McDaniel, a future Governor of Georgia was born.
Over the next few years, he oversaw the chartering of Phi Kappa chapters at the Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia (Gamma Beta) and at the Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi (Mu Theta).
Before attending seminary, he pastored his first church, Centralhatchee Baptist Church, at the age of 16.
At age 80, he died from a heart attack in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, as he and his wife were returning from a vacation on St. Simons Island in Georgia.
In the 1960s, he was imprisoned along with Bertrand Russell for anti-nuclear protests, and also was placed in Albany, Georgia mail for Civil Rights activities.
Another local city with this issue is Braselton which has its own ZIP Code and is still in five different ZIP Code areas.
Ruthy (later changed to Ruth) Kate Williams (also sometimes billed as Ruby Glaze) was singing for a high school ceremony in Augusta, Georgia in 1933 when she was noticed by McTell, who regularly performed in the area.
At that time he was instrumental in establishing the Southeastern Georgia School of Biblical Studies in Waycross, Georgia.
He was one of 16 drivers that participated in the three-stage evaluation process that took place at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, North Carolina, North Georgia Speedway in Chatsworth, Georgia, and Nashville Superspeedway.
Seeing him at a bus stop while vacationing in Savannah, Georgia, Cox was "attracted to him, but not in some kind of like, just physical way." Seeing "his melancholy, his sitting alone, staring at the ground", he "fell in love" with him.
Its campus is located in Pine Mountain, GA outside of Atlanta, and aims for 20-25 students to participate in a living and learning community.
Motley was born in Leesburg, Georgia and raised in Canton, Ohio, where his family moved when he was three years old.
The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Towns, and Union counties, Georgia.
My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be is the first full-length album from the Athens, Georgia based rock band Harvey Milk.
This is a list of properties and districts in White County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Written and composed by Australian-born band member Jane Comerford, the unusual choice of country as the genre resulted in BBC commentator Terry Wogan asking jokingly and with a rough approximation of the appropriate accent "are we in Athens, Georgia?" at the end of the performance (the Contest was held in Athens, Greece).
Two such stations are WGPB FM in Rome, Georgia and WNGH-FM in Chatsworth, Georgia, former commercial stations purchased in 2007 and 2008 and operated by Georgia Public Broadcasting, serving the mountains northwest of Atlanta which previously had no GPB radio service.
Georgia State Route 246 (SR 246) and North Carolina Highway 106 (NC 106) are actually a pair of highway designations that run concurrently on a single road that runs from Dillard, Georgia to Highlands, North Carolina.
Twelve minehunter ships were built for the U.S. Navy by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (formerly Litton Avondale Industries) of New Orleans and Intermarine of Savannah.
Before this there were converting and two paper machines, the site having several owners after the Dixons, namely British Tissues, Jamont UK and Fort James, and is now part of the Georgia-Pacific group.
The oval pigtoe was originally described from the Chattahoochee River near Columbus, Georgia.
Perpetual Groove (or PGroove) was an American jam band that originated in 1997 in Savannah, Georgia.
They were first planted on Sea Island, off the coast of Georgia, and hence derived the name of the finest cotton, Sea Island Cotton.
In 1952, James Brown was released from a youth detention center in Toccoa, Georgia, after Bobby Byrd and his family sponsored him.
It serves the communities of Clayton, Dillard, Mountain City, Pine Mountain, Sky Valley, Tallulah Falls, and Tiger, Georgia.
The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.
Golick is a member of several civic groups in his hometown of Smyrna, Georgia and practices law when the Georgia Assembly is not in session.
Camp was born in Trion, Georgia, and was best known for hitting a game-tying 18th-inning home run on July 5, 1985, against the New York Mets' Tom Gorman; this was the only home run of his nine-season career.
Robert Lee Sherrod was born on February 8, 1909 in Thomas County, Georgia.
The Roswell Recreation and Parks is a municipal department serving the city of Roswell, Georgia.
Before the start of the American Civil War, Rose had studied medicine, received a diploma and moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia.
Santa Wheels is a volunteer program created in 1995 by Master Pontiac-Buick-GMC and re-launched in 2006 in Augusta, Georgia, United States.
Sea Island, Georgia, an isolated resort island in Glynn County, Georgia
Seth and Willie Fred sometimes simply referred to as SWF, is a Comedy Rock, Country, Southern Rock, Parody band from Blakely, Georgia, formed in 2006.
According to an officer at the Douglasville Police Department, the suspects were in Williams' car and were attempting a robbery.
The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail Services, Patterson, Georgia for the Tasmanian Government Railways in 2013/14.
After dating for two years, the two were married on June 8, 2002 at the Ida Cason Chapel in Pine Mountain, Georgia.
Additionally, TBI provides airport management services at Atlanta and Macon, Georgia and Burbank, California in the US.
The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes.
The crematorium was founded by Tommy Marsh in the mid-1970s and was located in the Noble community in northwest Georgia, north of the city of LaFayette.
:Not to be confused with Tunnel Hill, Georgia
Van must have had family in Savannah, Georgia because in November 1883, twenty-seven years after he had left the south, he took his family there for a visit.
Vedette is a company, headquartered in Williamson, Georgia, USA, that manufactures and markets undergarments for women, with an emphasis on shapewear undergarments which are functionally designed to help wearers achieve a desired body form for aesthetic purposes, but can also be used as post-surgical support or to encourage posture discipline.
It has also received a construction permit for a fill-in broadcast translator in Union City, Georgia (southwestern metro Atlanta) on channel 36, which was vacated by analog WATL TV.
Eventually, the company acquired processing plants in Danville, Arkansas, Laurel, Mississippi, Decatur, Alabama, Dobson, North Carolina, Pendergrass, Georgia, Enterprise, Alabama, College Park, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama.
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The Dutch Quality House brand was created in 1978, and acquired by the company in 1985 through the purchase of a processing plant in Oakwood, Georgia.
Originally W22AH on channel 22, it was licensed in 1988 to serve Columbus, Georgia, over 100 km away.
White Bluff, Georgia, a former community, now a part of Savannah, Georgia
A native of Taylorsville, Georgia, Nixon was signed by the Red Sox as a free agent out of the Auburn University.
He graduated from Las Vegas High School and subsequently joined the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps on December 9, 1942, training in Albany, Georgia.
Kiehn volunteered for paratrooper and received training in Toccoa, Georgia.
Winfred Rembert was born on November 22nd, 1945 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, in the US state Georgia.
WMLB AM 1690, "The Voice of the Arts", is a radio station licensed to Avondale Estates, Georgia, and serves most of the metro Atlanta radio market.
W04BJ Young Harris, Georgia, analog permanently off-air due to equipment failure since May 2008, was at a different location, and had the same facility ID (23945) as W12DK-D because it was flash-cut to digital when it was moved and changed TV channels
Its digital signal only extends 50 miles (80 km) from Cordele, but it's seen on many cable systems in the region, including Albany and Perry.
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Bo Jackson rushed for 1,786 yards, which was the second best single-season performance in SEC history behind Herschel Walker's 1,891 rushing yards for the Georgia in 1981.
After consecutive losses to Ole Miss, led by Eli Manning, and Georgia, the Tigers concluded a disappointing regular season by defeating arch rival Alabama, 28–23.
The finale of the event is often the presentation of the AGEUS Award for Individual Contribution in the field of Georgia economic development, which was begun in 2006, and/or the presentation of the joint AGEUS/GDEcD awards known as the Georgia Featured Export Product Awards, which began in 2007.
Plans were announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and another near the border with Georgia at Agstafa.
The governor spent time at Possum Poke in Georgia, using at as a retreat and a place to write.
The song features Anderson (in first person narration) discussing an experience of getting stuck behind a Georgia truck hauling a load of chickens (Georgia is a major poultry-producing state), on Alabama State Route 65 (a winding, 2-lane highway in Jackson County in the northeast corner of Alabama) heading to Tennessee in mid-July.
In the mid 1970s he served as an exchange officer at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.
Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, a large academic building at Georgia Tech named for G. Wayne Clough
In 1992-1993, he began petitioning and working for the peaceful conflict settlement in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia.
With 36 seconds remaining and faced with 4th and 18 from the Tiger 26-yardline, Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former defensive back for the Bulldogs during the 2011 season, threw a Hail Mary pass, which was tipped by Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons right into the hands of Auburn sophomore wide receiver Ricardo Louis.
In 1983, Governor Joe Frank Harris appointed Burdick as Georgia’s Assistant Adjutant General – Army, and he was promoted to Brigadier General.
During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.
Tara Grinstead, missing Georgia beauty pageant winner and high school teacher
Emory College, an academic division of Emory University, located in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, in the Atlanta area
Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808–1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe
In 1913, Park won a special election to fill Georgia's vacant 2nd district seat in the United States House of Representatives during the 63rd United States Congress.
The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra is a conglomerate of several musical groups under the leadership of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.
The Orbeliani were in possession of a large fief called Saorbelo or Saqaplanishvilo which comprised the southern part of the Baratashvili princedom (Sabaratiano), including much of the Ktsia and the Dmanisi valleys in what is now the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia.
Named after Mary Ethel Creswell, the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia, Creswell Community is home to male and female first-year students.
They were picking up Sutton Place phones and placing calls to girlfriends in Geneva or Georgia and to aunts, uncles and third cousins twice-removed in Caracas and Cape Town.
Jigda-Khatun's involvement in the government of Georgia was occasioned by David's departure for the court of Batu Khan, when she, together with the courtier Jikur, was left in charge of regency.
John Nathan Deal (born 1942), United States politician, Governor of Georgia
In the 15th century with the decline of Golden Horde's influence in the North Caucasus, shamkhal of Gazi-Kumukh asserted his authority in the northern Dagestan and in the south opposed the territorial expansion of Iran, Shirvan and Georgia.
In 1912 Leith Harbour was the site of the second introduction of Reindeer to South Georgia, an attempt that failed when the entire herd was killed by an avalanche in 1918.
In 1960, the hospital became a member of the American Hospital Association, though it wasn't until 11 years later, in 1971, that the name was changed to The Medical Center of Central Georgia.
After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.
She is the recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and a member of The International Women's Writing Guild.
Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.
She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).
Hopes & Dreams is the first EP by Georgia based rock band Faster Faster, sold at local shows and digitally in the US on April 21, 2006.
The Council of Ministers relocated to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, where it operated as a de jure government of Abkhazia for almost 13 years.
When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama.
Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.
WWWQ, a radio station (99.7 FM) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
He had 41 caps for Georgia, from 1997 to 2009, scoring 5 tries, 25 points on aggregate.
Roswell King, Sr. had conflicts with Major Pierce Butler when he managed his island plantations in Georgia, because Butler took a more moderate approach to the treatment of slaves than King did.
Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities, Savannah, Georgia, a historic district listed on the NRHP in Georgia
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia is a 2013 psychological horror film that serves as a brother film to The Haunting in Connecticut by Gold Circle Films.
Thomas received an interview with the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos where he claimed the entire district for Georgia.
BC TSU Tbilisi is the Georgian professional basketball club, that is based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
During the Concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third district House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.
It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.
Walter F. George (1878–1957), American politician from the state of Georgia
He taught on the Great Books and Renaissance history at Michigan, world history at Xavier University of Louisiana, medieval history at Tulane, and early modern history and the philosophy of history at Georgia.
WBZY, a radio station in Bowdon, Georgia, United States briefly known as WLCL in May 2005
Martin Dawe of Atlanta, Georgia and Dick Reid of York, England were chosen to create the Atlas bronzes.
WRWR-LD, a TV station (channel 38) licensed to Warner Robins, Georgia
The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.