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Lost Cause Religion
Near the end of the Civil War (1861-65), women from Columbus began to care for soldiers' graves. One...

Louisville
Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until...

Davis Love III (b. 1964)
Davis Love III of Sea Island has distinguished himself as one of the top career money winners on the...

E. K. Love (1850-1900)
The minister and missionary E. K. Love was a prominent Baptist leader and writer in nineteenth-century...

Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America...

Lower Coastal Plain and Coastal Islands
Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain, an environmental region of the Coastal Plain Province, contains some of...

Bill Lowery (1924-2004)
Bill Lowery, often referred to as "Mr. Atlanta Music," was a disc jockey, manager, producer, and publisher...

Joseph Lowery (b. 1924)
Joseph Lowery, a distinguished civil rights leader and respected Methodist minister, helped to organize,...

Lowndes County
Lowndes County in southwest Georgia was created in 1825 by an act of the state legislature. The county...

Mike Luckovich (b. 1960)
Pulitzer Prize–winner Mike Luckovich, a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist, uses his...

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