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Tourist info: Georgia Dept of Tourism,
Woodlands, Park Street, Hitchin, Herts.
GEORGIA
SG4 9AH
Tel: 01293 560 848
GEORGIA
the peach state
Fax: 01462 440 783
E-mail: anne-young.georgia.@virgin.net
Web: www.georgia.org
The book and movie Midnight in the
Land area: 315 miles from north to
Garden of Good and Evil did for
south, making it easy to drive the state
Savannah what Gone With The Wind
Population: 8,684,715
did for Atlanta: it made the world sit up
and take notice of this Southern belle
State Capital: Atlanta
city with many charms. More than 800
Largest city: Atlanta
buildings have been restored to their Local time: EST – 5 hrs behind the UK
original glory and tree-shaded squares
Climate: Mild all year round. Southeast
decorate the city in a patchwork of
coast very warm from Feb to Nov.
green, while lively restaurant, bar and
National parks: 63 state parks.
music scenes keep Savannah visitors
dancing into the night. Set at the beginning of the
South of Savannah is Georgia’s 90- Appalachian chain, the timeworn
mile coast. Islands such as Jekyll and St. mountains of North Georgia compose
Simon’s, are easily reached by bridges a gentle sort of high-country that the
and offer miles of pristine beaches, Native Americans called the "enchant-
lodging, golf, and entertainment. ed land." Georgia’s mountains offer
There’s the Okefenokee Swamp, visitor’s miles of hiking trails, white-
home to 15,000 alligators and named water rivers and even gold mines to
by the Indians as "the land of the trem- tour in Dahlonega, the site of the first
bling earth" for the way the water- American gold rush.
logged bogs shake underfoot. The state capital of Atlanta offers
Georgia’s Southern Rivers region more than enough places of interest for
has a rich agricultural heritage with even the most energetic visitor. As
stretches of highway running past farms birthplace of Martin Luther King and
growing peaches, pecans, and peanuts. the city where he is buried, there is a
Be sure to experience the fascinating museum dedicated to Dr
It’s a song... it’s the place where the King’s life and work.
world’s best-selling novel was created...
Strange but true...
The High Museum in Atlanta has
it’s the location of the film seen by more been extensively expanded and will
people on the planet than any other.
Georgia has the largest Kangaroo collec-
host exhibitions and masterpieces from
But once you return from your hol-
tion outside of Australia.
the Louvre Museum in Paris.
iday of a lifetime, you’ll appreciate that If you have time, you should go
Georgia is, above all, a state of mind.
If you only see one
behind the scenes at CNN, the
Over the years, Georgia has provid-
thing...
world’s best-known news network...
ed untold musical inspiration as well as and to visit the site of the 1996
world-famous artists covering the
Southern Crossroads at Stone Mountain.
Olympic Games… Meanwhile, thirsty
whole musical spectrum, including such visitors can call in at Atlanta’s World Of
names as Little Richard, Otis Redding,
Look out for...
Coca Cola - HQ of the nation’s
the B-52s, REM and Ray Charles - the
Famous Georgians Jimmy Carter,
favourite soft drink. The newest attrac-
Georgia-born genius who recently
Joanne Woodward, Julia Roberts and
tion in Atlanta is the Georgia
gained a new generation of fans, thanks Burt Reynolds. Aquarium, home to four whale sharks
to Jamie Foxx’s Oscar-winning per- (the largest fish in the world) and
formance in Ray. Wind atmosphere still resonates. The Andersonville National Prisoner of War Beluga whales and designed to look
But perhaps most famously of all, state boasts a particularly fine collection Museum and Callaway Gardens. like an ocean liner right in the heart of
Georgia was the home of Margaret of antebellum homes - stately Civil War Georgia’s favourite son is celebrated at downtown Atlanta.
Mitchell, and of her epic romance Gone mansions that somehow survived the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Once you’ve experienced it for
With The Wind - which, seventy years Sherman’s incendiary "march to the in Plains, where the former President yourself, you too will know what it
on, remains far and away the best-sell- sea" in 1864. and his wife still live. means to have Georgia on your mind.
ing novel of all-time.
It’s hard to escape Gone With The
Wind in Georgia - but then, why would
you want to? Margaret Mitchell lived
and died in Atlanta, and the apartment
where she wrote her novel is now
home to the Margaret Mitchell
Museum; nearby Jonesboro is the like-
ly location of the novel’s fictional Tara,
while Marietta’s Gone With The Wind
museum houses the world’s largest
collection of memorabilia associated
with both the novel and the multi-
Oscar-winning film.
Even when you leave Atlanta
behind, that gracious Gone With The
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