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100 unusual facts about Georgia


1887 Detroit Wolverines season

On March 13, after training in Macon, Georgia‚ the Wolverines began a six-week exhibition tour through the South and Midwest.

1947 Atlantic hurricane season

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.

2007 Pep Boys Auto 500

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.

2013 Petit Le Mans

The 16th Annual Petit Le Mans presented by Mazda was the 2013 edition of the Petit Le Mans automotive endurance race, held on October 6–9, 2013, at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, United States.

Albert Ernest Radford

Radford was born in Augusta, Georgia to Albert and Eloise Moseley Radford, one of nine children.

Anne Hyde Choate

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.

Augusta, Illinois

Catlin named Augusta after having a memorable visit to Augusta, Georgia.

Auraria

Auraria, Georgia, a town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States

Banks County Jail

Banks County Jail is a historic jail in Homer, Georgia.

Barbara Jane Mackle

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.

Bartram's Travels

In January 1776 Bartram returned to Georgia, shipped the last of his plant specimens to London from Savannah, and returned home to Philadelphia.

Benjamin Fitzpatrick

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.

Beth Denisch

Beth Denisch (born Augusta, Georgia, Feb. 25, 1958) is an American composer.

BlueBilly Grit

BlueBilly Grit, commonly abbreviated BBG, is an American bluegrass band originating from Maysville, Georgia.

Braselton, Georgia

The town borders the city limits and shares a ZIP code with Hoschton.

Braselton borders the mailing addresses (not city limits) of Gainesville (Candler), Flowery Branch, Oakwood (Chestnut Mountain side), and Pendergrass.

Brunswick stew

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

Camp Juliette Low (CJL) is a private, non-proft summer camp for girls in Cloudland, Georgia.

Charles Mercer Snelling

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).

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.

Claudine's Return

It was filmed almost entirely on the American island of Tybee Island, Georgia with a few shots from the surrounding areas.

Cole Swindell

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).

Colquitt Theatre

For the Colquitt Theatre in Moultrie, Georgia see Colquitt Theatre (Moultrie, Georgia)

Cornelia, Georgia

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.

Creole marble

Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.

Dade County

Dade County, Georgia, the state's northwestern-most, bordering Alabama and Tennessee

Daniel Whitehead Hicky

Daniel Whitehead Hicky aka "Jack" was born in Social Circle, Georgia, and very shortly thereafter his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was educated in private schools.

David Baulcombe

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.

David-Seth Kirshner

For five years, Kirshner also served as spiritual leader for the Hebrew Congregation of Fitzgerald, in Southern Georgia.

Dennis Powell

Dennis Clay Powell (born August 13, 1963 in Moultrie, Georgia) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Edmund H. Pendleton

Born in Savannah, Georgia, Pendleton received a liberal schooling as a youth.

Egg hunt

For example, Homer, Georgia, United States was listed in 1985 with 80,000 eggs to hunt in a town of 950 people.

Episcopal Diocese of Georgia

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.

Epps 1912 Monoplane

The Epps 1912 Monoplane was designed and built in 1912 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Flavius Josephus Carpenter

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.

Foy Evans

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.

Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri

Enrico dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, July 25, 1878 – Nemi, December 4, 1909), married in Washington, DC, March 2, 1901 Eugenia Enfield Berry (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, ca 1870 – 1951), formerly Mrs. Henry Bruton, without issue

GA3

Georgia's 3rd congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia

George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter

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.

Georgia State Route 30

They travel through rural areas of the county and enter Milan, inside which the concurrency enters Telfair County.

Georgia, Georgia

Georgia, Georgia is a 1972 Swedish-American drama film directed by Stig Björkman.

Georgia's 10th congressional district

Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.

Georgia's 2nd congressional district

The district is also the historic and current home of President Jimmy Carter.

Georgia's 4th congressional district election, 2006

Johnson pointed out that McKinney has received large donations from donors from New York and Los Angeles, while most of his support had come from within the Congressional district.

Georgia's 7th congressional district

Although the seat has been held by Republicans since 1995, the 7th district had previously elected Democrats consistently from the Reconstruction era (1868) until the 1994 Congressional Elections.

Georgia's 8th congressional district election, 2006

Georgia's 8th congressional district election, 2006 was between Democratic incumbent Jim Marshall and Republican congressman Mac Collins, resulting in a narrow victory for Marshall.

Golf cart

Peachtree City, Georgia has many miles of golf cart paths that link the city together.

Gordon Saussy

Saussy was the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia from 1929 to 1931.

Graveface Records

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).

Hanging Maw

The town was much reduced since the capital moved to Unstanali, near present-day Calhoun, Georgia.

Harbin Clinic

The Harbin Clinic now has more than 27 satellite offices throughout Rome, Adairsville, Bremen, Calhoun, Cartersville, Cedartown, Summerville, and Trion.

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

Hickory Level, Georgia

Hickory Level is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.

Jacob Broughton Nelson

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).

Jakob Heine

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.

Jason Webster

Currently, Webster is the team Chaplin for the Atlanta Falcons and lives in Braselton, Georgia.

Jerry Vines

Before attending seminary, he pastored his first church, Centralhatchee Baptist Church, at the age of 16.

Jim Limber

When the Davises were captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Georgia, on May 15, Jim was separated from them.

John Papworth

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.

Kate McTell

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.

Kings Bay

Kings Bay, Georgia, a small town located in Camden County on the southern coast of Georgia

Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

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.

M. F. Stephenson

In the 1870s, several of his articles were published by the Smithsonian Institution, including Account of Ancient Mounds in Georgia and Mounds in Bartow County near Cartersville, Georgia.

Manuel Maloof

Manuel Joseph Maloof (1924–2004) was the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia, prominent Atlanta politician and owner of Manuel's Tavern, a popular Atlanta bar.

Marion Motley

Motley was born in Leesburg, Georgia and raised in Canton, Ohio, where his family moved when he was three years old.

Mark Trail Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Towns, and Union counties, Georgia.

Morgan Brian

Born in St. Simons, Georgia to parents, Vickie and Steve Brian, Morgan attended Frederica Academy in St. Simons Island, Georgia.

My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be

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.

North Carolina Highway 106

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.

Ockham, Surrey

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.

Perpetual Groove

Perpetual Groove (or PGroove) was an American jam band that originated in 1997 in Savannah, Georgia.

Philip Miller

They were first planted on Sea Island, off the coast of Georgia, and hence derived the name of the finest cotton, Sea Island Cotton.

Plains, North Lanarkshire

But in 1976, newly elected US President Jimmy Carter (of Plains, Georgia) received a congratulatory telegram from Plains newsagent - also J. Carter.

Ralph Tambs-Lyche

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).

Raven Cliffs Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.

Rick Camp

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.

Rosemont, Illinois

Rosemont was tied for first place in 2000 with Bowdon, Georgia, as the place in the United States with the highest percentage of people reporting Bulgarian ancestry.

Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

On account of this principle, the city of Savannah was chosen for the organization of the sailing events.

Santa Wheels

Santa Wheels is a volunteer program created in 1995 by Master Pontiac-Buick-GMC and re-launched in 2006 in Augusta, Georgia, United States.

Seth and Willie Fred

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.

Shelden Williams

According to an officer at the Douglasville Police Department, the suspects were in Williams' car and were attempting a robbery.

Sidney Stripling

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.

Sounder

The boy hears his father may be in Bartow and later Gilmer counties but the author does not specify where the boy lives.

TasRail TR class

The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail Services, Patterson, Georgia for the Tasmanian Government Railways in 2013/14.

The Green Hand

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.

Tim Worley

Police held Worley in custody on outstanding warrants from Arcade in Jackson County and Social Circle in Walton County.

Tina Tyus-Shaw

She worked a series of radio and television jobs in Macon, Georgia; North Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, before settling in Savannah in 1992.

Tray Mountain Wilderness

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.

Tri-State Crematory

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.

Virginia State Route 139

The state highway heads northeast as two-lane Allen Road, which intersects a railroad spur that serves the adjacent Georgia-Pacific plant.

Wayne Farms

Its 13 processing facilities span the southeast region of the United States with its corporate headquarters located in Oakwood, Georgia.

WDNN-CA

North Georgia Television also owns and operates WDGA-CA (43) in Dalton, Georgia.

WEAS-FM

callsign meaning = The WEAS callsign was originally licensed to Decatur, Georgia, home to two schools:
Emory and Agnes Scott|

White Bluff

White Bluff, Georgia, a former community, now a part of Savannah, Georgia

William Harrell Nellis

He graduated from Las Vegas High School and subsequently joined the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps on December 9, 1942, training in Albany, Georgia.

William Jackson Brack

He married firstly to the former Olive Chancey (1838–1864) of Clinch County, Georgia, by whom he had two sons who died young.

WKSY-LD

From its transmitter atop the Mack White Gap east of Summerville, in addition to cable coverage, WKSY-LD covers northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama, including Rome, Dalton and Ringgold, Georgia; as well as Fort Payne, Alabama.

WNGH-TV

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

Xtranormal

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.

Yahoo! Messenger

The story prompted several advertisers, including Pepsi and Georgia-Pacific, to pull their ads from Yahoo.


2003 Auburn Tigers football team

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.

2012–13 Georgian Ice Hockey League season

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.

Bill Bates

During Tennessee's 16-15 loss to eventual national champion Georgia on September 6, 1980, Georgia running back Herschel Walker and Bates met on the 5-yard line in a play that still lives in many college football highlights.

Box End

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.

Burdell

George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day

Chase Osborn

The governor spent time at Possum Poke in Georgia, using at as a retreat and a place to write.

Cousin Skeeter

Skeeter (performed by Drew Massey, voiced by Bill Bellamy) - Skeeter is a puppet whose life changed when he moved from Atlanta, Georgia to New York City to live with his cousin Bobby.

Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

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.

Eutaw

Eutaw Formation, a geological formation in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi

Fort Oglethorpe

Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808–1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe

Frank Park

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.

General Beauregard Lee

However, he did have one major miss: in 1993 he predicted an early Spring but Georgia was hit with a blizzard that crippled the Southeast for nearly a week and a half, sometimes called the "Storm of the Century".

Georgia Bulldogs football under Charles McCarthy

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.

Georgia Line

The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress.

Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra

The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra is a conglomerate of several musical groups under the leadership of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

H. Lawrence Gibbs

According to Richard Carlton Haney in his book Canceled Due to Racism, the impetus for Gibbs's bill was probably the preceding Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans in January 1956, when the University of Pittsburgh brought a black fullback, Bobby Grier, for the game with Georgia Tech of Atlanta, Georgia.

Haley Reinhart

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.

House of Orbeliani

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.

Jigda-Khatun

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.

Keselo

Keselo is a small medieval fortress just above the village of Omalo in Tusheti (historic geographic area in eastern Georgia).

Leith Harbour

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.

Morris Berthold Abram

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.

Oglethorpe Plan

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.

Ossuri khachapuri

It is common in regions of Georgia with a large Ossetian population, such as Akhalgori.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

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.

Petya Miladinova

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).

Politics of Abkhazia

The Council of Ministers relocated to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, where it operated as a de jure government of Abkhazia for almost 13 years.

Politics of the Southern United States

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 Greek

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.

Q100

WWWQ, a radio station (99.7 FM) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Rati Urushadze

He had 41 caps for Georgia, from 1997 to 2009, scoring 5 tries, 25 points on aggregate.

Roswell King

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.

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

SpaceWorks Enterprises

SEI was founded in 2000 by Dr. John R. Olds, then a tenured professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stippled studfish

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.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Surami

Strategically located at the entrance into the Borjomi Gorge and guarding the road from eastern to western Georgia, Surami became a heavily fortified town in the 12th century.

Thomas M. Green, Sr.

Thomas received an interview with the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos where he claimed the entire district for Georgia.

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1964

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.

Virgil Griffith

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".

Walden L. Ainsworth

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

WAYR-FM, a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Brunswick, Georgia, United States

WFNA

WANN-CD, a low-power television station (channel 29/PSIP 32) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which used the call sign WFNA-LP from June 1999 to June 2002

WSNT

WSNT-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Sandersville, Georgia, United States

Zestaponi

The local football club, FC Zestafoni, plays in the top league in Georgia and twice won the Georgian championship in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 season.