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Georgia State Parks

Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, a division of the Department of Natural Resources, protects more than 85,000 acres of natural beauty at more than sixty parks and historic sites in the state.

The diversity of landscape within the state parks system includes inland and coastal sites of geographic importance. The Blue Ridge Mountains, with perhaps its most scenic stretch at Georgia's Black Rock Mountain State Park, are located along the Eastern Continental Divide, while Georgia's "Colonial Coast" encompasses a portion of the eastern Atlantic coastline and includes all the Sea Islands. In between these sites lie Amicalola Fal...

Brumby Family

The Brumby family's fortunes have, for generations, been tied to Marietta. The family has distinguished itself in local politics, in newspaper publishing through the Marietta Daily ...

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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is a center for documenting and promoting the study of Georgia's modern political history,...

Georgia Ports Authority

The purpose of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), according to the agency's mission statement, is "to develop, maintain, and operate ocean and inland river ports within Georgia; foster international trade and new industry for state and local commu...

Howard Moore Jr. (b. 1932)

Civil rights attorney and Atlanta native Howard Moore Jr. handled a number of important cases in 1960s Atlanta that set precedent regarding freedom of speech as well as other significan...