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.
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.
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.
In January 1776 Bartram returned to Georgia, shipped the last of his plant specimens to London from Savannah, and returned home to Philadelphia.
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.
As Johnston withdrew again, skirmishing erupted at Adairsville on May 17 and more general fighting on Johnston's Cassville line May 18–19.
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.
BlueBilly Grit, commonly abbreviated BBG, is an American bluegrass band originating from Maysville, Georgia.
The building used as the Boar's Nest in Covington, Georgia, during the filming of the first five episodes of season one still exists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.
Dade County, Georgia, the state's northwestern-most, bordering Alabama and Tennessee
His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth", and he is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota as well as Duluth, Georgia.
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.
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.
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Pendleton received a liberal schooling as a youth.
For example, Homer, Georgia, United States was listed in 1985 with 80,000 eggs to hunt in a town of 950 people.
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.
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.
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.
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)
General Beauregard Lee is a groundhog that resides at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn, Georgia just outside of Atlanta.
After they leave town, they continue to the northwest and have a short concurrency with SR 107, a few miles south of Jacksonville.
In Junction City, it meets SR 96, and they run concurrent to a point just west of town.
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.
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.
Peachtree City, Georgia has many miles of golf cart paths that link the city together.
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 Harbin Clinic now has more than 27 satellite offices throughout Rome, Adairsville, Bremen, Calhoun, Cartersville, Cedartown, Summerville, and Trion.
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 is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.
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.
Currently, Webster is the team Chaplin for the Atlanta Falcons and lives in Braselton, Georgia.
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.
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.
The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Towns, and Union counties, Georgia.
The Miller Lil' Rascal was a two-seat sporting biplane built by high school students in Claxton, Evans County, Georgia, USA, in the late 1970s.
Born in St. Simons, Georgia to parents, Vickie and Steve Brian, Morgan attended Frederica Academy in St. Simons Island, Georgia.
This is a list of properties and districts in White County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
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.
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.
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.
From 2007 to 2012, Amberland was held at Cherokee Farms, just outside LaFayette in northwest Georgia.
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).
The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.
Sitton was born in 1923, in Calhoun, Georgia, where he graduated from Sonoraville High School as valedictorian of the class of 1941.
The event is free to all the public and is located in Southern Georgia's Berrien County.
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.
Sea Island, Georgia, an isolated resort island in Glynn County, Georgia
According to an officer at the Douglasville Police Department, the suspects were in Williams' car and were attempting a robbery.
The boy hears his father may be in Bartow and later Gilmer counties but the author does not specify where the boy lives.
The film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois while most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, east of Atlanta (and near the real I-20).
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.
The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes.
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.
Police held Worley in custody on outstanding warrants from Arcade in Jackson County and Social Circle in Walton County.
:Not to be confused with Tunnel Hill, Georgia
The School is based in Tucker Hall on UGA's South Campus; courses are offered there and at the UGA Gwinnett Campus in Lawrenceville.
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.
He graduated from Las Vegas High School and subsequently joined the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps on December 9, 1942, training in Albany, Georgia.
He married firstly to the former Olive Chancey (1838–1864) of Clinch County, Georgia, by whom he had two sons who died young.
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.
WPBS (AM) an AM radio station operating at 1040 kHz in Conyers, Georgia
WPNG-LP, a low-power television station (channel 3) licensed to Pearson, Georgia, United States
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peters graduated from Hardaway High School in 1967, in Columbus, Georgia, and later earned an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, and a post-graduate degree in education at Columbus State University.
George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day
Charles C. Jones Jr. was born October 28, 1831 in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a Presbyterian minister.
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).
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.
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.
Georgia national football team, the association football (soccer) team of the nation of Georgia
The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress.
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.
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.
As a proof for their allegations, Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office released, on November 16, 2007, several taped phone conversations between Patarkatsishvili and Giorgi Targamadze, chief of Imedi TV’s political programs, and also between a producer and a journalist of Imedi TV.
He currently serves as the Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority Executive Director (NWGAJDA.COM)and the Top of Georgia Economic Development Chairman.
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.
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.
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.
WWWQ, a radio station (99.7 FM) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Walter F. George (1878–1957), American politician from the state of Georgia
WAYR-FM, a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Brunswick, Georgia, United States
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
WPCH-TV, a television station (channel 17 analog/20 digital) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States
WSNT-FM, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Sandersville, Georgia, United States