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.
However, Marco is more notable for the impact from the remnants, especially in Georgia and South Carolina, where rainfall from the storm peaked at 19.89 in (505 mm) near Louisville, Georgia.
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.
Andrew Jackson King was born in Cherokee Purchase Land in Union County, 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.
Auraria, Georgia, a town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States
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.
In January 1776 Bartram returned to Georgia, shipped the last of his plant specimens to London from Savannah, and returned home to Philadelphia.
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.
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.
In 2010, Alexander's Gator golfers finished second of twelve teams in the SEC championship tournament in Sea Island, Georgia, and eleventh of thirty invited teams at the NCAA Tournament in Ooltewah, Tennessee.
CVIOG is a unit of the Office of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia.
The Center for Computational Chemistry (CCC) is a research center in the department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA.
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).
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He taught mathematics there when he graduated, then at the Georgia Military Institute in 1885-86, as well as a 2-year stint teaching at South Georgia College in Thomasville.
From 1912 until 1914 he was professor of astronomy at the Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
It was filmed almost entirely on the American island of Tybee Island, Georgia with a few shots from the surrounding areas.
For the Colquitt Theatre in Moultrie, Georgia see Colquitt Theatre (Moultrie, Georgia)
The sister stations include Comcast C4, serving the Augusta, Georgia market and Comcast C7, seen in Savannah, Georgia.
Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.
Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, 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.
Livingston was born in Waycross, Georgia, and received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1980 and a Juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Dennis Clay Powell (born August 13, 1963 in Moultrie, Georgia) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.
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.
However, the Diocese reorganized Christ Church with a basically new congregation in the early 2010s, and the town of Moultrie had another Episcopal parish for residents of Colquitt County to attend, minimizing the trauma of those two defections.
McDonald served on the boards of companies such as Georgia-Pacific, Halliburton, H.J. Heinz and KMart.
Flavius Josephus Carpenter, born March 24, 1851 in Franklin County, Georgia, died August 2, 1933, at home in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, was an American Civil War veteran, steamboat captain, U.S. Marshal, and entrepreneurial businessman.
Fruitlands (Augusta National Golf Club), American historic domestic single dwelling added in 1979 to National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, Georgia (listing 19)
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.
After they leave town, they continue to the northwest and have a short concurrency with SR 107, a few miles south of Jacksonville.
The district is also the historic and current home of President Jimmy Carter.
Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, expressed a similar sentiment, "An incumbent who is forced into a runoff is a serious sign of weakness.
Saussy was the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia from 1929 to 1931.
Graveface Records is an American independent record label from Savannah, Georgia, solely owned and operated by Ryan Graveface (who plays in the groups Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dreamend, the Marshmallow Ghosts and the Casket Girls).
The area he settled is known today as Vinings, Georgia, but at the time was known as (Pace's) Crossroads and, later, Paces (now a neighborhood of Buckhead).
Hickory Level is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.
Among others who served in the field may be mentioned Jacob de la Motta, Jacob de Leon, Marks Lazarus, the Cardozos, and Mordecai Sheftall, who was deputy commissary-general of issues for South Carolina and Georgia, but who must be considered as a resident of Savannah, Georgia rather than of Charleston.
He eventually acquired "Old Mill Farm" in Cartersville, Georgia, where he and his wife Frances raised their family.
It was used extensively in Dahlonega, Georgia and continues to be used in developing nations, often with devastating environmental consequences.
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).
Originally from Montgomery Georgia, Snider later moved to Philadelphia, but died in poverty in Great Britain while attempting to recover promised compensation from the British government.
Heine was also honoured at Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, where his bronze bust can be found along with those of other polio experts and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Polio Hall of Fame.
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.
Besides its headquarters in Marlborough, the company employs over 600 people in facilities located in McDonough, Georgia and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kings Bay, Georgia, a small town located in Camden County on the southern coast of Georgia
They are also the fifth Clear Channel outlet to adopt the "Radio Now" moniker, following 105-7 Hit Music Now/Greensboro, Y102.3 Hit Music Now/Augusta, 97.3 Radio Now/Milwaukee (whose logo is the same as KWNW) and Radio Now 98.9/Louisville.
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.
Born in St. Simons, Georgia to parents, Vickie and Steve Brian, Morgan attended Frederica Academy in St. Simons Island, Georgia.
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.
After reaching Liverpool in 1850, following an arduous journey starting with a flight to freedom from Macon, Georgia, African-American slaves William and Ellen Craft were given a home by a parishioner in Ockham in 1851.
Though seldom mentioned, notable vestiges of the Oglethorpe Plan can be found in the land use pattern surrounding Savannah; in the cities of Darien, Georgia; Brunswick, Georgia; and at Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia.
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The same basic plan was intended for replication in towns throughout the colony; however, Darien, Georgia is the only other living town in which the original design has survived.
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.
He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).
Sitton was born in 1923, in Calhoun, Georgia, where he graduated from Sonoraville High School as valedictorian of the class of 1941.
Robert Lee Sherrod was born on February 8, 1909 in Thomas County, Georgia.
It was founded by the same family that established Ruckersville, Georgia.
Before the start of the American Civil War, Rose had studied medicine, received a diploma and moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia.
On account of this principle, the city of Savannah was chosen for the organization of the sailing events.
Sea Island, Georgia, an isolated resort island in Glynn County, Georgia
Butler was born in Thomasville, Georgia to William Sloan and Winnie Williams on January 4, around 1872, just seven years after slavery was abolished.
According to an officer at the Douglasville Police Department, the suspects were in Williams' car and were attempting a robbery.
At the request of Alan Lomax, in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, John Wesley Work III of Fisk University recorded ten of Stripling's songs at the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival in Fort Valley, Georgia in March 1941.
The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail Services, Patterson, Georgia for the Tasmanian Government Railways in 2013/14.
Additionally, TBI provides airport management services at Atlanta and Macon, Georgia and Burbank, California in the US.
Chapman appeared in the film version, whose cast consisted of students and faculty from the University of Georgia and the surrounding city of Athens, Georgia.
These include the company’s Cleveland-based headquarters and branches in Lancaster, PA; Columbus, WI; Kennesaw, GA; Dallas, TX; Stockton, CA; Phoenix, AZ; and Kent and Spokane, WA.
She worked a series of radio and television jobs in Macon, Georgia; North Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, before settling in Savannah in 1992.
The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Habersham, Rabun, Towns and White counties, Georgia and is managed in the Chattooga Ranger District.
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
Later in her career, she was named Winder after Winder, Georgia, becoming the only U.S. Navy ship of that name.
USS Quail (AM-377) which was laid down by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia.
Living in Hull, Georgia, she was voted "Player of the Year" from 1988 to 1990 by the American Junior Golf Association.
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.
North Georgia Television also owns and operates WDGA-CA (43) in Dalton, Georgia.
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The station also has two translators (repeaters): Chattanooga, Tennessee/Ringgold, Georgia's WRNG-LP (on channel 28), LaFayette, Georgia's WLFW-LP (on channel 41).
Prior to that time, ABC programming was only available to area residents either during the off-network hours (via tape delay) on WMAZ or on affiliates from nearby markets such as Atlanta's WXIA (later WSB-TV) or Columbus' WTVM.
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.
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
WPBS (AM) an AM radio station operating at 1040 kHz in Conyers, Georgia
In 2010, the short film Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman by director J Roland Kelly, animated entirely with Xtranormal, premiered at the Little Rock Film Festival and was shown at The Rome International Film Festival in Rome, Georgia.
The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.
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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 2012–13 Georgian Ice Hockey League season was the third season of the Georgian Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Georgia.
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.
Whitney initially attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of coach Jack Bauerle's Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team in 1999—Georgia's first NCAA national championship team.
Carter landed on the coast of what is now the state of Georgia and settled around what is now known as the city of Americus.
Charles C. Jones Jr. was born October 28, 1831 in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a Presbyterian minister.
The governor spent time at Possum Poke in Georgia, using at as a retreat and a place to write.
After the Sovietization of Georgia in 1921, Baazov, aided by his son, the leading Georgian-Jewish writer Gerzel Baazov, organized Jewish schools across the country and later founded the magazine makaveeli ("Maccabean") which was closed by the Soviet authorities during a crackdown on Georgian Jewish cultural institutions after the 1924 anti-Soviet August Uprising in Georgia.
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.
Ellis L. Johnson, Coca-Cola chair professor for Georgia Tech's School of ISyE
Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808–1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe
As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed.
Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.
In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.
Henry Graybill Lamar (July 10, 1798 – September 10, 1861), United States Representative, lawyer and jurist from Georgia
On May 28, 2011, Reinhart and the other American Idol top 4 performed at the opening of the new Microsoft Store at Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, 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.
He currently serves as the Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority Executive Director (NWGAJDA.COM)and the Top of Georgia Economic Development Chairman.
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.
He is the paternal grandson of John W.E. Bowen, Sr., former President of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, former Professor of Music at Clark College in Atlanta.
Keselo is a small medieval fortress just above the village of Omalo in Tusheti (historic geographic area in eastern 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 April 2011, Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, visited Merab Ratishvili in Rustavi prison No.6 as part of a visit to Georgia to report on the administration of justice and level of protection of human rights in the justice system of Georgia.
As a civil rights activist, Abram was instrumental in ending the County Unit System of voting in Georgia, which many argued favored Georgia's rural, white population at the expense of its more urban black population.
Black's father, Richard Peters, moved from Pennsylvania to Georgia to survey the railroads, as he worked as a civil engineer.
It is common in regions of Georgia with a large Ossetian population, such as Akhalgori.
She is the recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and a member of The International Women's Writing Guild.
In Georgia the panduri is a three-string fretted instrument widely spread in all regions of Eastern Georgia: such as Pshavkhevsureti, Tusheti, Kakheti and Kartli.
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.
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.
The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.
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.
Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.
The exterior stone plaque of the church of the Holy Cross at Mtskheta, Georgia, mentions the principal builders of this church: Stephanos the patricius, Demetrius the hypatos, and Adarnase the hypatos who have traditionally been equated by the Georgian scholars with Stephen I, son of Guaram; Demetre, brother of Stephen I and Adarnase I.
The Stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama.
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.
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.
It was at Interz0ne 1 in 2002 that he met Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech student, who had discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard".
On the night of 4–July 5, TF 18 moved up "the Slot" and bombarded Japanese positions at Vila on Kolombangara and at Baiko on New Georgia.
WAYR-FM, a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Brunswick, Georgia, United States
Martin Dawe of Atlanta, Georgia and Dick Reid of York, England were chosen to create the Atlas bronzes.
WPCH-TV, a television station (channel 17 analog/20 digital) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States
WRWR-LD, a TV station (channel 38) licensed to Warner Robins, Georgia
WSNT-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Sandersville, Georgia, United States
Ya-ha Hadjo (Mad Wolf Georgia ? - March 29, 1836 Florida) was a member of the Creek Nation who avoided forced relocation to Indian Territory with his band by moving south to the Florida Territory where he joined with the Seminole and retained his position as chief.