Peach Blossom Festival

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Queen Elizabeth Joyner rides a float from Americus–Sumter County in the Peach Parade, held during Fort Valley's Peach Blossom Festival in the mid-1920s. Fort Valley is the seat of Peach County, the self-proclaimed "Peach Capital of the World."

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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