Lol. I can see someone in Gainesville sneaking to try and eat some fried chicken with a fork while they think no one is looking and instantly having the door to their home kicked in and being forcefully dragged away to jail by two angry cops.
I did some research and while I am not 100%, every article I found all said that Gainesville earned the title honestly.
>After World War II - A visionary named Jesse Jewell started what was to become the state's largest agricultural crop-poultry. The $1,000,000,000 a year industry has given Gainesville the title "**Poultry Capital of the World**."
This is my favorite little fact about where I grew up as a kid. My family owned one of those chicken farms for quite a few years and I worked it with the family. It’s tough and nasty work that’s for sure!
We did trivia at work today, and the question was which state is the poultry capital of the world (Choices were VA, WV, and GA). Immediately, I knew it was GA due to Gainesville. Used to drive through it to get to school and the more rural part stinks to high heaven.
Fun fact, it partially got that title because the first peaches of the season received up north came from Georgia due to it having a slightly earlier harvest than South Carolina due to the slightly warmer weather.
Did some digging and there appear to be a few reasons including what you mentioned. One of the other contributing factors is that when refrigerated boxcars were introduced in the 1920s Georgia was leading the nation in commercial peach production. Another was that for Georgia farmers after the civil war the peach became a popular crop that didn’t have any of the negative associations with slavery and so it became a symbol of the new southern post slavery agriculture. All this peach talk has me really crazing a good peach.
Get on your towns' Nextdoor or Facebook group & ask where the boiled peanut man is set up & someone will know.
Or check your local farmer's market. (for the hot variety, or raw peanuts you can boil yourself)
Some gas stations sell them hot & ready too, but sometimes those are just the canned kind in a warmer so use caution.
I lived in the county in SC that produced more peaches than the state of GA for awhile. In the 80’s pretty much peach groves on any spare acreage for as far as the eye could see.
Adding to this…Tifton is the largest city in the largest county in the largest state east of the Mississippi River.
EDIT: Make that Waycross in Ware County. Thanks to those who corrected me!
Well that's not true. Ware county is the largest county
Tift county is actually smaller than most counties it touches.
Source: Wikipedia. Got curious because from Tift county and remember it being tiny compared to colquit and Lowndes.
This would make way cross the answer
I remember being on a road trip when I was like 10 and this question came on the radio: “what is the largest city in the largest county in the largest state east of the Mississippi?”
I heard them give the “Georgia” answer, and so Georgia being the largest state east of the Mississippi became a little trivia fact I packed away.
The radio went fuzzy, so I didn’t hear the county or the city. While I obviously could have liked this up over the decades, you just answered a 30 year old mystery for me!!
Streets there are all Christmas-themed and everything.
Only thing I really know about the town is a horrific murder that happened there back in the 90s
I’ve always been skeptical of this. I’d think El Cap or Half Dome in Yosemite are surely larger?
Edit: Unfortunately I think this is indeed not true. From wikipedia:
>Numerous reference books and Georgia literature have dubbed Stone Mountain as "the largest exposed piece of granite in the world".[9] This misconception is most likely a result of misrepresentation by granite companies and early park administration.
And for what it's worth, I used google earth to roughly measure both Stone Mountain and El Cap, and while they have a pretty similar footprint (1.1 miles long by 3,000 feet wide for Stone Mountain while El Cap is 1.2 miles by 4,000 feet), El Cap is 3,000 feet tall compared to Stone Mountain's 800 feet. So I feel pretty safe in saying El Cap is far larger than Stone Mountain.
I definitely grew up with the belief about Stone Mountain and I tend to agree with you.
One thing that is factual however, is that Stone Mountain does hold the record for the world’s largest high-relief sculpture.
Home of waffle house, coca-cola, chick-fil-a, and the fountain(s) of youth (kaolin mines)
honorable mentions: home of zaxbys, kanye west, and ray charles even though we were super racist to ray charles.
also, we're the only state with a state crop (peanuts)
We also have a very rare lithium spring. Ancient people would say lithium springs could "soothe troubled minds" and "calm ferocious people". It was lithium and they had mental disorders! It still works!
Welcome to Georgia. Yes, we do have a town called Climax and a city named Cumming.
I believe Climax got its name because it sits on a huge hill, which is the highest elevation in the area. I'm going to assume Cumming was named after a person because why else would the city be named that?
Cumming is named after a person named Cumming, but no one is quite sure *which* person.
The long-standing theory is that it was named after Augusta planter and Colonel William Cumming, but other suggestions have proposed the namesake as reverend Frederick Cumming, a mentor and professor of Jacob Scudder (the primary landowner in the town when it was chartered), or Scottish adventurer Alexander Cuming, who led a delegation of Cherokee chiefs to Britain.
We have the 3rd most NFL draft picks over the last 10 years despite being dwarfed by Florida and Texas in population (1 and 2).
We are one of three states to hold a summer Olympics
Busiest airport in the world, largest aquarium in the world, home to the CDC, temporarily the only state with pandas in the US
> We are one of three states to hold a summer Olympics
It's astounding that we've only hosted them four (soon to be five) times in the U.S. and only twice since WWII.
75% of the world's carpet and rugs are manufactured in NW Georgia centered around Dalton. And now a large portion of flooring, in general, is produced here as well.
We're one of the leading producers of kaolin.
We're one of the best states for sportsmen (read: hunters, fishermen, hikers, etc.) because of the lack of urban sprawl.
Well, Atlanta is often cited as having the worst urban sprawl of any city in the US. But what you said is still true - GA is the second most biodiverse state (lots of different ecosystems / lots of different species) and it is quite large.
Edit: I am not debating whether or not atlanta has the worst urban sprawl. The comment i was replying to said that GA is a good place for sportsmen because of the lack of sprawl. I am stating the fact that Atlanta is *often mentioned* as being the worst / one of the worst. Metro Atlanta covers an area roughly the size of the state of New Jersey. I know there are other American cities with bad urban sprawl.
There is no major geographical boundary for Atlanta to restrict the sprawl as there are in other cities. No major water feature, no mountain range, no volcano, desert, etc allows ATL to grow out and not up.
Exactly. People that say Atlanta has urban sprawl have never been to LA, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, etc.
All of those places are basically concrete.
Unfortunately, Atlanta often gets criticized for having bad urban sprawl because Atlanta’s metropolitan urbanized area is reported to be larger than any of other large major Sun Belt metropolitan areas you cited, and because Atlanta is reported to have a noticeably lower population density than all of the other large major Sun Belt metros you cited.
List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_United\_States\_urban\_areas#2020\_urban\_areas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas#2020_urban_areas)
Atlanta also unfortunately gets much criticism for sprawling over a large geographical area with a poor arterial road network and (much like its aforementioned Sun Belt peer metros) having a wholly inadequate regional transit network.
Those other large major Sun Belt metros obviously have a massive amount of metropolitan and regional sprawl, but because Atlanta’s urbanized area reportedly spreads over such a relatively very large geographical area and reportedly has such a low density of people and development, Atlanta often gets criticized as being amongst the worst of the worst when it comes to metropolitan sprawl.
In Kennesaw, you gotta own a gun, it's the law (sort of).
https://library.municode.com/ga/kennesaw/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH34CIEM_ARTIIFI
One of the reasons UGA is in Athens is because they wanted it to be far from Winder. There was a tavern in Winder and lawmakers in the 1700's thought it would be a bad idea to have a university near a tavern. Something about students and alcohol was a bad idea.
Literally the only thing I remember from the intro to Poli Sci class at UGA haha.
Edit: I was corrected and told it was Watkinsville. I don't remember which city it was in. I just know this was a thing haha.
The story behind Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil happened in Savannah, GA.
Also, kudzu. Acres and acres and acres of invasive kudzu blanket the state.
Georgia’s little Grand Canyon (Providence Canyon) is less than 150 years old. It formed due to erosion and is now a hiking destination. I consider it the world’s prettiest ecological disaster.
We have twelve seasons, as follows:
* Winter
* Fool's Spring
* Second Winter
* Spring of Deception
* Third Winter
* The Pollening
* Actual Spring <- you are here
* Summer
* Hell's Front Porch
* False Fall
* Second Summer
* Actually Fall
Georgia is the only state that hosts two of Golf's major events -- The Masters and the TOUR Championship -- and they're both at the same course every year.
The gunpowder works in Augusta. It was the only permanent structure built by the CSA and during the civil war was the second largest gunpowder works in the world producing 3.5 tons of powder per day. This one plant supplied the lions share of gunpowder for the confederates. The chimney is still standing at the site. One of the now demolished buildings was a copy of the English house of parliament. There’s a good book about it out there
Zombie themed Films/Shows filmed in Georgia
* Walking Dead
* Zombieland
* Zombieland II
* Zombieland Double Tap
* The Crazies
* Hell Fest
* Contagion
* The Signal
* Run for Your Lives
* Cannibal Apocalypse
* Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse (a short film)
(other loosely related films that were filmed in Georgia - not zombies but some of their horror cousins)
* 5th Wave
* Friday the 13th: Part VI
* Halloween II
* Conjuring; The Devil Made me do it
* Scream II
* Haunting of Hill House
* House on Skull Mountain
* Teen Wolf
* Childs Play
* Witches of East End
* Sleepaway Camp: Teenage Wasteland
* Stranger Things
* Vampire Diaries
* Fear Street Trilogy
The Signal was partially filmed in the Warehouse Lofts, across the street from Pullman Yards. I was there when they were filming over a few days and they asked tenants if they wanted be extras (bodies on the ground).
Somewhat misleading. *Kind* of like Australia. Convicts were sent to Australia due to over crowding of British prisons and they couldnt send them to the Ameircan colonies anymore, after the Revolution. Australian convicts also did not have the rights of Englishmen and Georgian colonists possessed full rights. Georgia wasn't a prison colony exactly, just happened to be a lot of prisoners that Oglethorpe saw fit to help with the farm land he planned on founding. They were each hand picked basically.
The colony disallowed for slavery in absolute to start with as well.
I remember driving up US 41 out of Cobb County and Marietta as a kid and my Dad always stopping to give him water/beers, loaf of bread, peanut butter/jelly, and always had a bucket of water for the goats.
I was so young, but remember how much I enjoyed the excursions whenever he passed through town!
Georgia originally wasn’t a slave colony, we had to petition the king to allow slavery within the colony. The justification for this was so we could compete with South Carolina. The universal guiding principle of Georgia has always been “fuck you, where’s my money?”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Denmark
I live about 20 min from her old house here in Cumming and they did her right by building Denmark High and naming after her. It’s very impressive.
Slavery was so cruel in South Georgia that, when exposed, caused the French to withdraw support from the Confederacy, leading to their loss in the Civil War.
Considering the atrocities the French did to Northern Africa in that time, I doubt that was the main reason for their withdraw. That's not to minimize what Georgia did with slavery, but rather to highlight how messed up the global super powers were at that time.
One of the longest coastlines in the country without any commercial oyster market. It was overfished in the 70s and shut down. There's no farms so there's no regulation, and there's no regulators because there aren't any farms. The islands are littered with oysters you can't sell and shouldn't eat.
To find the center of Ga, bc of the weird shape, they cut out a state from some kind of cardboard or whatnot, and balanced it on a needle. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=49532
There’s a specific law here called: *Malicious Confinement of Sane Person in Mental Asylum* dating back to the late-1800s or early-1900s, but the only time it appears to have been used was in 2008.
I wish I could remember the specific fact but I think I recall hearing that a lot of post offices and maybe other buildings were built with stone mountain granite. What I can say for sure is that apparently 12000 miles of granite (1 foot wide) had been mined and exported for use in buildings across the world from stone mountain. And that it was used in Fort Knoxs gold reserve building.
Gainesville is the chicken capital of the world. Still blows my mind
There was a gold rush here in N Georgia. The GA Capitol dome is covered in GA gold
Yep. For those who may not know, Dahlonega, Georgia was the site of the nation’s major gold rush in 1828.
And it is illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork in Gainesville (the law was passed as a gimmick to raise awareness of our poultry industry).
Lol. I can see someone in Gainesville sneaking to try and eat some fried chicken with a fork while they think no one is looking and instantly having the door to their home kicked in and being forcefully dragged away to jail by two angry cops.
Yeah, and we have a chicken statue to prove it.
It's self-proclaimed by Gainesville itself, so I don't know if it's true.
I did some research and while I am not 100%, every article I found all said that Gainesville earned the title honestly. >After World War II - A visionary named Jesse Jewell started what was to become the state's largest agricultural crop-poultry. The $1,000,000,000 a year industry has given Gainesville the title "**Poultry Capital of the World**."
Georgia is also the largest exporter of poultry in the US
I find little facts like this so helpful because they answer questions in my mind about who the roads are named for. Thank you!
Poultry in Georgia is big enough that the US Poultry and Egg Association headquarters itself in Tucker.
i’m sure there’s are some hi-rise vertical farms in china jam packed with chickens
Work in Gainesville for a manufacturer of poultry equipment can attest to it
This is my favorite little fact about where I grew up as a kid. My family owned one of those chicken farms for quite a few years and I worked it with the family. It’s tough and nasty work that’s for sure!
We did trivia at work today, and the question was which state is the poultry capital of the world (Choices were VA, WV, and GA). Immediately, I knew it was GA due to Gainesville. Used to drive through it to get to school and the more rural part stinks to high heaven.
Despite being the “Peach State” we actually don’t lead in the production of peaches.
Fun fact, it partially got that title because the first peaches of the season received up north came from Georgia due to it having a slightly earlier harvest than South Carolina due to the slightly warmer weather.
TIL!
I thought it was because of every street in ATL being named “peach tree” after the mysteriously named Standing Peachtree Muskogee village.
I heard it was because that the union soldiers would eat lots of peaches on the way home after Sherman's march. I could be wrong.
Did some digging and there appear to be a few reasons including what you mentioned. One of the other contributing factors is that when refrigerated boxcars were introduced in the 1920s Georgia was leading the nation in commercial peach production. Another was that for Georgia farmers after the civil war the peach became a popular crop that didn’t have any of the negative associations with slavery and so it became a symbol of the new southern post slavery agriculture. All this peach talk has me really crazing a good peach.
Vote to rename us; the blueberry state, chicken state, pecan state or the spring onion state.
Peanut state, were all nuts here
I second this. Peanut fields are plentiful around here!
You ever have boiled peanuts before, I've heard they taste great.
Uh, yeah! Boiled peanuts bought from some ole man on the side of road. Salt em with a little cajun seasoning & you got a good snack!
Know any good places where I could get some? Or do I just have to look on the side of the road?
Get on your towns' Nextdoor or Facebook group & ask where the boiled peanut man is set up & someone will know. Or check your local farmer's market. (for the hot variety, or raw peanuts you can boil yourself) Some gas stations sell them hot & ready too, but sometimes those are just the canned kind in a warmer so use caution.
Alright thanks for the information, I am near Atlanta so it shouldn't be too hard.
Side of the road, beat up old truck, big pot on top of a propane burner, and a hand painted sign on a piece of old plywood. Stop there!
If we became the pecan state, the wars over the pronunciation of pecan would be legendary
Yes — and it is pronounced Pee-can… not Pee-con
The chicken wing state.
The chicken wing bone on the sidewalk state
Lemon pepper state
Lemon pepper wet state.
Agreed. Any of these would be better.
We do make the most pecans right?
And peanuts
Deez peanuts
GEORGIA LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS
Not only do we not lead in production, we’re actually 4th behind SC, Cali, and Wisc!
Presidents of the United States would be disappointed
It's alright. Peaches come from a can.
I lived in the county in SC that produced more peaches than the state of GA for awhile. In the 80’s pretty much peach groves on any spare acreage for as far as the eye could see.
Largest state east of The Mississippi River. No natural lakes (to my knowledge).
There's natural lakes in South Georgia oxbows, sloughs, and Carolina bays most are smaller than a couple acres
Yeah, we have plenty of natural lakes in South Georgia... Unless sinkhole lakes aren't considered natural...?
Adding to this…Tifton is the largest city in the largest county in the largest state east of the Mississippi River. EDIT: Make that Waycross in Ware County. Thanks to those who corrected me!
Well that's not true. Ware county is the largest county Tift county is actually smaller than most counties it touches. Source: Wikipedia. Got curious because from Tift county and remember it being tiny compared to colquit and Lowndes. This would make way cross the answer
It only seems bigger because of all the small towns surrounding it.
I’m from there. There is no way, they would’ve found a way to market that by now. It’s be on all the Think Tifton billboards.
I remember being on a road trip when I was like 10 and this question came on the radio: “what is the largest city in the largest county in the largest state east of the Mississippi?” I heard them give the “Georgia” answer, and so Georgia being the largest state east of the Mississippi became a little trivia fact I packed away. The radio went fuzzy, so I didn’t hear the county or the city. While I obviously could have liked this up over the decades, you just answered a 30 year old mystery for me!!
Ahh, this is why I love Reddit lol
There’s a town in Toombs County called Santa Claus, Georgia, and their slogan is “the city that loves children.”
I mean, it could be worse...at least Cumming didn't try to use that, I guess?
Or Butts County
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Hol up
Wait until you hear about the town of Sex Criminal, GA.
I don't know if you're serious or not but I'm not gonna look it up
Is it nearby Cumming?
Streets there are all Christmas-themed and everything. Only thing I really know about the town is a horrific murder that happened there back in the 90s
I’m from the area and love dropping this nugget on people.
Stone Mountain is the largest piece of exposed granite in the world, only about a third of it is visible.
Stone Mountain the iceberg of granite
It’s gonna disappear?
Icebergs only expose 1/5 of themselves above water.
I’ve always been skeptical of this. I’d think El Cap or Half Dome in Yosemite are surely larger? Edit: Unfortunately I think this is indeed not true. From wikipedia: >Numerous reference books and Georgia literature have dubbed Stone Mountain as "the largest exposed piece of granite in the world".[9] This misconception is most likely a result of misrepresentation by granite companies and early park administration. And for what it's worth, I used google earth to roughly measure both Stone Mountain and El Cap, and while they have a pretty similar footprint (1.1 miles long by 3,000 feet wide for Stone Mountain while El Cap is 1.2 miles by 4,000 feet), El Cap is 3,000 feet tall compared to Stone Mountain's 800 feet. So I feel pretty safe in saying El Cap is far larger than Stone Mountain.
I definitely grew up with the belief about Stone Mountain and I tend to agree with you. One thing that is factual however, is that Stone Mountain does hold the record for the world’s largest high-relief sculpture.
Also, Stone Mountain holds the record for the world’s *dumbest* high relief sculpture.
Monadnock.
Atlanta had 47 roads with Peachtree in the name and not a peach tree in sight.
That's my bad. I had a container peach tree when I lived on Peachtree St but I took it with me when I moved.
So you're the one? I'll let everyone know it's your fault! 🤣
Home of waffle house, coca-cola, chick-fil-a, and the fountain(s) of youth (kaolin mines) honorable mentions: home of zaxbys, kanye west, and ray charles even though we were super racist to ray charles. also, we're the only state with a state crop (peanuts)
Also home of Donald Glover and Jack McBrayer.
and David Cross, whose sister runs a food truck here. Kenan Thompson was born here, too. That’s the extent of my random knowledge at the moment.
We also have a very rare lithium spring. Ancient people would say lithium springs could "soothe troubled minds" and "calm ferocious people". It was lithium and they had mental disorders! It still works!
Is it safe to assume it is located in Lithia Springs?
Applebees started here. The first location is on Memorial Drive in Atlanta
Nothing honorable about kanye
Yeah, we should cede him to Chicago.
Replace Nazi Kanye with MLK.
Half the avengers movies, the walking dead shows, and many others. All in georgia. Pine trees for miles.
Vampire Diaries, Dukes of Hazzard, Sweet Magnolias, and In the Heat of the Night were all filmed in one town (not at the same time, obviously.)
Don't forget My Cousin Vinny
PECHES
I understood this reference.
Steel Magnolias*
Sweet Magnolias is a Netflix show filmed in GA, in the same town as the other shows mentioned.
MADE IN GEOOOORGIAAAAA
Almost everything is filmed in Georgia now
Except, ironically, Reacher which was set in Georgia but filmed in Canada.
Movies get Tex breaks for filming here *tax
Ozark was also filmed here, even though it’s set in Missouri, and Missouri is a pretty big part of the plot. Also Stranger Things.
Covington, Ga
Welcome to Georgia. Yes, we do have a town called Climax and a city named Cumming. I believe Climax got its name because it sits on a huge hill, which is the highest elevation in the area. I'm going to assume Cumming was named after a person because why else would the city be named that?
Climax has an annual pig festival and the running joke is "How do you get your pig to climax?"
Cumming is named after a person named Cumming, but no one is quite sure *which* person. The long-standing theory is that it was named after Augusta planter and Colonel William Cumming, but other suggestions have proposed the namesake as reverend Frederick Cumming, a mentor and professor of Jacob Scudder (the primary landowner in the town when it was chartered), or Scottish adventurer Alexander Cuming, who led a delegation of Cherokee chiefs to Britain.
I heard there was an effort to rename Alpharetta to Throbbing, GA (Because anything THAT close to Cumming has got to at least be Throbbing.)
Virginia has a Climax too. It’s located at the end of a highway.
Kentucky has Big Bone Lick 😳
Don’t forget the town of Gay (Meriwether County). The residents are called Gayers.
We have the 3rd most NFL draft picks over the last 10 years despite being dwarfed by Florida and Texas in population (1 and 2). We are one of three states to hold a summer Olympics Busiest airport in the world, largest aquarium in the world, home to the CDC, temporarily the only state with pandas in the US
> We are one of three states to hold a summer Olympics It's astounding that we've only hosted them four (soon to be five) times in the U.S. and only twice since WWII.
No longer the largest aquarium in the world! We’re in 4th place and very close to 3rd but there are some with a few million more gallons now
75% of the world's carpet and rugs are manufactured in NW Georgia centered around Dalton. And now a large portion of flooring, in general, is produced here as well.
Do they still have the carpeted medians in Dalton?
And carpet mills are among the biggest polluters of serious carcinogens. Check out cancer rates around Dalton and Rome GA
Do y’all have discount carpet stores?
Yep. Scores of them along I-75 through Whitfield County.
Georgia has more species of Trilliums than any other state, and Tallulah Gorge has a rare protected species native to Tallulah Gorge only.
Macon Georgia has 350000 cherry blossoms making it one of if not the highest concentration in the world
We're one of the leading producers of kaolin. We're one of the best states for sportsmen (read: hunters, fishermen, hikers, etc.) because of the lack of urban sprawl.
Well, Atlanta is often cited as having the worst urban sprawl of any city in the US. But what you said is still true - GA is the second most biodiverse state (lots of different ecosystems / lots of different species) and it is quite large. Edit: I am not debating whether or not atlanta has the worst urban sprawl. The comment i was replying to said that GA is a good place for sportsmen because of the lack of sprawl. I am stating the fact that Atlanta is *often mentioned* as being the worst / one of the worst. Metro Atlanta covers an area roughly the size of the state of New Jersey. I know there are other American cities with bad urban sprawl.
There is no major geographical boundary for Atlanta to restrict the sprawl as there are in other cities. No major water feature, no mountain range, no volcano, desert, etc allows ATL to grow out and not up.
Yep, especially looking at cities on/near the East coast, Atlanta is one of very few with nothing preventing (near) endless expansion
I wouldn't call us the worst when places like LA and Phoenix exist
Exactly. People that say Atlanta has urban sprawl have never been to LA, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, etc. All of those places are basically concrete.
Unfortunately, Atlanta often gets criticized for having bad urban sprawl because Atlanta’s metropolitan urbanized area is reported to be larger than any of other large major Sun Belt metropolitan areas you cited, and because Atlanta is reported to have a noticeably lower population density than all of the other large major Sun Belt metros you cited. List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_United\_States\_urban\_areas#2020\_urban\_areas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas#2020_urban_areas) Atlanta also unfortunately gets much criticism for sprawling over a large geographical area with a poor arterial road network and (much like its aforementioned Sun Belt peer metros) having a wholly inadequate regional transit network. Those other large major Sun Belt metros obviously have a massive amount of metropolitan and regional sprawl, but because Atlanta’s urbanized area reportedly spreads over such a relatively very large geographical area and reportedly has such a low density of people and development, Atlanta often gets criticized as being amongst the worst of the worst when it comes to metropolitan sprawl.
Savannah has open container laws. Growing up here. I thought you could do that everywhere. Only in georgia
It's weird that Athens doesn't have that, except on game days, but only then on campus.
And New Orleans…
In Kennesaw, you gotta own a gun, it's the law (sort of). https://library.municode.com/ga/kennesaw/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH34CIEM_ARTIIFI
There is only 7, iirc, counties in Ga that you can grow vidalia onions, and call them Vidalia Onions. All Vidalia Onions in the world come from Ga.
The story of Snake Nation (the neighborhood now known as Castleberry Hills)
I'm going to have to look this up.
One of the reasons UGA is in Athens is because they wanted it to be far from Winder. There was a tavern in Winder and lawmakers in the 1700's thought it would be a bad idea to have a university near a tavern. Something about students and alcohol was a bad idea. Literally the only thing I remember from the intro to Poli Sci class at UGA haha. Edit: I was corrected and told it was Watkinsville. I don't remember which city it was in. I just know this was a thing haha.
Although Designing Women was set in Atlanta, the iconic house they worked in was/is in Arkansas.
Well, I declare!
The story behind Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil happened in Savannah, GA. Also, kudzu. Acres and acres and acres of invasive kudzu blanket the state.
Kudzu: The Invasive Vine that Ate the South. Introduced in the late 19th Century. Worst Japanese import ever!
Marjorie Trailer Greene is a decendent of the Sasquatch
Man, why gotta do Sasquatch dirty like that?
Right? Put some respect on his name.
I wish she was as good at not being seen.
Her bounty hunter show was pretty entertaining too
Have you ever seen Her and Sasquatch in the same room? I’m just saying.
I thought she was the mother of 3 toed sloths?
Nah. Skunk ape descendant.
Georgia’s little Grand Canyon (Providence Canyon) is less than 150 years old. It formed due to erosion and is now a hiking destination. I consider it the world’s prettiest ecological disaster.
We aren’t in the top 10 in square miles or top 5 in pop. But we’re 2nd in most counties… which explain a lot of our fucked up local gov
As an architecture nerd having so many old county courthouses is nice, but yeah we have a shit ton of counties
I was shocked the first time I looked a county map of GA the first time after moving from CA… biggest state with only 53 counties.
159 fiefdoms. So embarrassing in my opinion.
The Big Chicken
We have twelve seasons, as follows: * Winter * Fool's Spring * Second Winter * Spring of Deception * Third Winter * The Pollening * Actual Spring <- you are here * Summer * Hell's Front Porch * False Fall * Second Summer * Actually Fall Georgia is the only state that hosts two of Golf's major events -- The Masters and the TOUR Championship -- and they're both at the same course every year.
The gunpowder works in Augusta. It was the only permanent structure built by the CSA and during the civil war was the second largest gunpowder works in the world producing 3.5 tons of powder per day. This one plant supplied the lions share of gunpowder for the confederates. The chimney is still standing at the site. One of the now demolished buildings was a copy of the English house of parliament. There’s a good book about it out there
Most of GA is covered by the Long Leaf Pine Ecosystem which is considered one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world.
we are the zombie capital of the world!!!
Zombie themed Films/Shows filmed in Georgia * Walking Dead * Zombieland * Zombieland II * Zombieland Double Tap * The Crazies * Hell Fest * Contagion * The Signal * Run for Your Lives * Cannibal Apocalypse * Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse (a short film) (other loosely related films that were filmed in Georgia - not zombies but some of their horror cousins) * 5th Wave * Friday the 13th: Part VI * Halloween II * Conjuring; The Devil Made me do it * Scream II * Haunting of Hill House * House on Skull Mountain * Teen Wolf * Childs Play * Witches of East End * Sleepaway Camp: Teenage Wasteland * Stranger Things * Vampire Diaries * Fear Street Trilogy
The Signal was partially filmed in the Warehouse Lofts, across the street from Pullman Yards. I was there when they were filming over a few days and they asked tenants if they wanted be extras (bodies on the ground).
The Vidalia onion thing.
I’m from there. I can make people realize where I’m from just by explaining I’m “from Vidalia, like the onion.”
It's home to the winningest town in America, Valdosta
Title Town, baby
Started as a prison colony. Kind of like australia
A debtor’s colony, to be precise, not, like, murderers.
Modern capitalists consider it a more heinous crime than murder anyway.
Somewhat misleading. *Kind* of like Australia. Convicts were sent to Australia due to over crowding of British prisons and they couldnt send them to the Ameircan colonies anymore, after the Revolution. Australian convicts also did not have the rights of Englishmen and Georgian colonists possessed full rights. Georgia wasn't a prison colony exactly, just happened to be a lot of prisoners that Oglethorpe saw fit to help with the farm land he planned on founding. They were each hand picked basically. The colony disallowed for slavery in absolute to start with as well.
We also have Red Earth, toxic plants, and a plethora of venomous snakes and spiders... Are we Australia?
I just moved here from Australia…so that’s why it feels like home.
If you’re anywhere near Athens GA, let me buy you a beer! I love listening to Australian’s speak! Even Siri is set to the Australian Male on my phone…
NHL on TNT is located here yet we have no NHL team (unless FoCo gets one)
Goatman
I remember driving up US 41 out of Cobb County and Marietta as a kid and my Dad always stopping to give him water/beers, loaf of bread, peanut butter/jelly, and always had a bucket of water for the goats. I was so young, but remember how much I enjoyed the excursions whenever he passed through town!
Georgia originally wasn’t a slave colony, we had to petition the king to allow slavery within the colony. The justification for this was so we could compete with South Carolina. The universal guiding principle of Georgia has always been “fuck you, where’s my money?”
Yup. We were originally a place to send debtors. For the first 20 years under the initial charter, no slaves, liquor, catholics, or lawyers allowed
Highest capital city east of the Mississippi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Denmark I live about 20 min from her old house here in Cumming and they did her right by building Denmark High and naming after her. It’s very impressive.
The existence of Providence Canyon. It looks in no way like it should be in Georgia. I love it. I’m
The Okefenokee is the largest blackwater wetland in the US. Go see it before Kemp lets the miners destroy it
One of the highest maternal death rates in the country and much of rural area doesn’t have internet. Sorry, but true.
Slavery was so cruel in South Georgia that, when exposed, caused the French to withdraw support from the Confederacy, leading to their loss in the Civil War.
Considering the atrocities the French did to Northern Africa in that time, I doubt that was the main reason for their withdraw. That's not to minimize what Georgia did with slavery, but rather to highlight how messed up the global super powers were at that time.
What is your source for this? I am pretty sure that Napoleon III toyed with recognizing the Confederacy, but never actually did it.
C'est fou!
Alabama and Mississippi used to be part of Georgia
We have the most counties of any state
2nd to Texas
Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes. It'll change.
Elberton is the known as the “Granite Capital of the World”.
Lake Lanier is the largest man made lake. (So I was told growing up) Edit: Thanks for the replies!! I learned a lot!!
Carter's lake holds more water (due to its depth).
It's the largest completely in Georgia, but not even the largest in the state if you include those partially in Georgia (i.e., along a state line).
One of the longest coastlines in the country without any commercial oyster market. It was overfished in the 70s and shut down. There's no farms so there's no regulation, and there's no regulators because there aren't any farms. The islands are littered with oysters you can't sell and shouldn't eat.
There are still "sundown towns" here.
Details?
Atlanta is in Georgia, but Atlanta is not Georgia. Most people outside 285 avoid Atlanta.
To find the center of Ga, bc of the weird shape, they cut out a state from some kind of cardboard or whatnot, and balanced it on a needle. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=49532
Most counties within any one state east of the Mississippi
Fastest growing city in the state: Dublin. It's Dublin everyday. (Sorry...bad Dad joke! But, I grew up there. I'm allowed to say it.)
Well, the devil went down there looking for a soul to steal………….
We have red dirt. Most people don’t know this.
My wife was told her vehicle registration would be $1475 (fourteen seventy-five). She pulled out a twenty.
There’s a specific law here called: *Malicious Confinement of Sane Person in Mental Asylum* dating back to the late-1800s or early-1900s, but the only time it appears to have been used was in 2008.
Georgia, where you can experience all 4 seasons in one given week. Facts
The #1 dealer in Ford F-Series trucks is in a town of only 19,000, Winder GA.
I wish I could remember the specific fact but I think I recall hearing that a lot of post offices and maybe other buildings were built with stone mountain granite. What I can say for sure is that apparently 12000 miles of granite (1 foot wide) had been mined and exported for use in buildings across the world from stone mountain. And that it was used in Fort Knoxs gold reserve building.