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I am a native
of the State of Georgia, in the Central Coastal Plain of Georgia, aka Georgia's
Historic Heartland. |
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Georgia is
ranked as the 24th largest state at just over 59,000 square miles (Wisconsin is
ranked #23 and Illinois is ranked #25). |
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The highest
point in Georgia is
Brasstown Bald (Blue Ridge Mountains), North Georgia, at 4,784 feet.
(Spruce Knob, West Virginia is 4,861 feet and Mount Mansfield in Vermont is
4,393 feet). On a clear day, you can see the four surrounding states. |
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The City of
Milledgeville was the 4th capital of Georgia for 61 years until 1868, and is one
of the few cities built exclusively to be a State Capital city. In 1861, a
special convention voted to secede from the union. |
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The Creek
Indians lived in Northern Georgia and spoke in the Muskogean language.
"Swift Creek" refers to a particular group who made a distinctive style of
pottery, noted for its decoration. |
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The
Ocmulgee Indian
Mounds date back 12,000 years and was principally used as a meeting place or
council chamber. |
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The largest Confederate
military prison during the American Civil War was located at
Camp Sumter,
in Andersonville. Almost 13,000 prisoners (out of 45,000) died mostly due
to diseases from the poor conditions. |
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Eliza Frances Andrews was the
author of
The
War Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865.
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Sara
Branham Matthews (1888-1962) discovered the treatment for spinal meningitis
and was inducted in 1992 as an Honoree of the Georgia Women of Achievement. |
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Saint Mary's, Georgia is the
second oldest city in the nation. |
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Macon, Georgia is the
Cherry Blossom
Capital of the world. |
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The first F4 tornado ever
caught on film was on April 3 1953 and moved through Houston County, killing 19
and injuring 300 in Warner Robins. |
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Lily May Futrelle, born in Atlanta in 1876, survived the sinking of the
Titantic. Her husband,
Jacques Futrelle, had a
premonition of disaster 2 weeks before the Titantic sank. He did not
survive. Mrs. Futrelle died at the age of 91 in 1979. |
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Wesleyan College
was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. |
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The
Vidalia
onion, the sweetest onion in the world, can only be grown in the fields around
Vidalia and Glennville. |
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The official state prepared
food of Georgia is
grits. |
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Georgia was the first state
to allow women full property rights. |
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The world's largest kitchen
is located at Central
State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. Reportedly able to prepare
30,000 meals a day. |
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Stone Mountain,
Georgia is the largest granite monolith in the world. |
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Savannah is considered to be the first first planned city in the United
States. |
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Juliette Gordon
Low, born in Savannah, was the founder of the US Girl Scouts. |
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A common name for
kudzu is "The Vine
that Ate the South". |
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The
Legend of the Cherokee Rose comes from the
Trail of
Tears when the Cherokee Indians were forced from North Georgia to Oklahoma.
The Cherokee Rose is the State Flower and is a symbol of the "Trail Where They
Cried". |
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The
Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia is the largest swamp in North America. |
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Doc Holliday
was born in Griffin, Georgia in 1851. |
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The town motto of Warner
Robins is "EDIMGIAFAD" - Every Day in Middle Georgia is Armed Forces
Appreciation Day. |
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The
kazoo was
invented by Alabama Vest of Macon, Georgia and was first publicized at the
Georgia State Fair in 1852. |
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The Georgia Wave - the waving of the hand back and forth in front of
the face, jutting the lower jaw out to blow air over the face, in an attempt to
shoo away annoying gnats. |
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The character of Big Daddy in
Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” was based on the patriarch of a Macon
family with whom Williams spent time during his early writing years. |
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Every person in Georgia is
less than an hour's drive from at least one state park or historic site. |
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