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Decatur County Courthouse

Decatur County Courthouse

The neoclassical revival-style Decatur County courthouse was built in Bainbridge, the county seat, in 1902.

Courtesy of Don Bowman

Decatur County Traveling Library

Decatur County Traveling Library

This bookmobile in Bainbridge, pictured ca. 1936-38, was reportedly the first one in Decatur County. "Decatur County Traveling Library" is painted on the door of the vehicle.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # dec047.

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Bainbridge, 1923

Bainbridge, 1923

A parade passes down Broad Street in Bainbridge for the Decatur County centennial celebration in 1923.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # dec009.

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Steamboat

Steamboat

The steamboat Getrude, laden with barrels of turpentine, passes a crowd on the banks of the Flint River near Bainbridge, 1910.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
dec060.

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Midtown Skyline

Midtown Skyline

The Midtown skyline, seen here from Piedmont Park, reflects the neighborhood's dramatic growth. Midtown is the second-largest business district in Atlanta. 

Photograph by Daniel Mayer

Peachtree Street

Peachtree Street

Sections of Peachtree Street, Atlanta's primary thoroughfare, retained a rural character well into the late nineteenth century. 

Wimbish House

Wimbish House

The Wimbish House is one of the last grand homes remaining on Peachtree Street. It was built in 1898 and designed by noted Atlanta architect W.T. Downing.

Midtown Counterculture

Midtown Counterculture

In the late 1960s and 1970s, Midtown became a haven for Atlanta's counterculture. Here, young residents of the neighborhood can be seen lounging at a local hangout in 1968. 

Atlanta Pride

Atlanta Pride

Members of the Southern Element Flag Corps march down Peachtree Street in 1994 during the city's annual gay pride parade. A chapter of the Gay Liberation Front opened in Atlanta in 1971 and organized the city's first pride parade from 7th Street to Piedmont Park. 

Fox Theatre

Fox Theatre

Atlanta's Fox Theatre has seen more than $20 million in restoration projects since coming under the ownership of the nonprofit organization, Atlanta Landmarks, in 1975. The Fox was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

Dalton City Hall

Dalton City Hall

The city of Dalton, founded as Cross Plains in 1837, is the seat of Whitfield County. Known as the carpet capital of the world, Dalton and the surrounding region produce most of the nation's tufted carpets.

Courtesy of Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau

Dalton, 1890

Dalton, 1890

An aerial photograph, taken in 1890, shows the north end of Dalton, the capital of Whitfield County.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # wtf025.

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Old Whitfield County Courthouse

Old Whitfield County Courthouse

Located in Dalton, Whitfield County's second courthouse, pictured circa 1907, was built in 1891 to replace a wooden structure burned by Union troops during the Civil War. The second courthouse was used until 1960, when it was demolished.

Hamilton Street, Dalton

Hamilton Street, Dalton

Cotton farmers converge on Hamilton Street in Dalton, circa 1900. Agriculture was the predominant industry in the Dalton area until the end of the nineteenth century, when farming was largely supplanted by the textile industry.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
wtf078.

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Chenille Bedspreads

Chenille Bedspreads

Chenille bedspreads hang on a line in Dalton, where in 1895 resident Catherine Evans Whitener revived the craft of hand tufting. The resulting cottage industry for the production of chenille goods is credited as the origin of Dalton's renowned carpet industy.

Courtesy of Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau

Dalton, 1950s

Dalton, 1950s

Downtown Dalton, the seat of Whitfield County, is pictured in the 1950s. In the years following World War II (1941-45), the city experienced an economic boom with the growth of its carpet industry.

Courtesy of Sherry Cady

World Carpets Headquarters

World Carpets Headquarters

The headquarters of World Carpets, pictured in 1969, featured a waterfall on its Morris Street side. World Carpets was founded in Dalton in 1954 by husband and wife Shaheen Shaheen and Piera Barbaglia.

From World Carpets: The First Thirty Years, by S. Shaheen

Downtown Dalton

Downtown Dalton

Downtown Dalton in the twenty-first century features numerous attractions, including shopping and cultural events. The city is located in Whitfield County, eighty miles north of Atlanta.

Courtesy of Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau

Hamilton Memorial Hospital

Hamilton Memorial Hospital

Hamilton Memorial Hospital, pictured circa 1930, was built in Dalton in 1918 during the influenza pandemic of that year.

Courtesy of Crown Gardens and Archives

Dalton, 1940s

Dalton, 1940s

Streetscape of Dalton, the seat of Whitfield County, taken in the 1940s.

Courtesy of Sherry Cady

Glascock County Courthouse

Glascock County Courthouse

The Glascock County Courthouse in Gibson was built in 1919 and remodeled in 1942. An extensive renovation of the interior was completed in 1973.

Courtesy of Don Bowman

Springvale Park

Springvale Park

Comprising ten acres, Springvale Park is the centerpiece of the Inman Park neighborhood, which was established in the late 1880s. In 1903 Inman Park founder Joel Hurt hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to improve the park aesthetically.

Photograph by Ted Bazemore

Inman Park

Inman Park

Atlanta's first planned garden suburb, Inman Park was envisioned as an oasis for the city's wealthy citizens. After a period of decline, the neighborhood underwent an extensive restoration, beginning in the 1970s.

Photograph by Ted Bazemore

Trolley Barn, Inman Park

Trolley Barn, Inman Park

The Trolley Barn in Inman Park was the terminus for Atlanta's first electric streetcar line, which ran west to downtown. The barn was the repair depot for the streetcars. Today the building is used for community events.

Photograph by Ted Bazemore

Inman Park

Inman Park

In 1969 Robert Griggs purchased and restored this Queen Anne-style house on Euclid Avenue, thereby launching the Inman Park restoration movement.

Photograph by Ted Bazemore

Callan Castle, Inman Park

Callan Castle, Inman Park

The Beaux-Arts style Callan Castle (1902-4) was built in Inman Park for Coca-Cola Company founder Asa Candler.

Photograph by Ted Bazemore

Talking Rock Country Store

Talking Rock Country Store

The town that is now Talking Rock, in Pickens County, was originally part of the Cherokee Nation. Today, the tiny town claims fewer than 100 residents.

Photograph by Pam Brannon

Talking Rock

Talking Rock

The modern town of Talking Rock, in Pickens County, grew up around the railroad during the late nineteenth century. The town incorporated in 1883.

Photograph by Pam Brannon

Talking Rock Hotel

Talking Rock Hotel

This old hotel in Talking Rock is a remnant from the town's era of prosperity. Before the turn of the twentieth century, Talking Rock boomed with the arrival of the railroad, the growth of the marble industry, and the thriving commerce of a factory, mills, cotton gins, and stores.

Courtesy of Robert Scott Davis

Ludville Academy

Ludville Academy

Ludville Academy, pictured circa 1930, was built in the community of Ludville in 1877 and ten years later moved to Talking Rock, where it housed the first high school in Pickens County.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
pck059-82.

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Manchester

Manchester

Manchester, incorporated in 1909, was named for the industrial city in England. Although it is not the county seat, Manchester is the largest town in Meriwether County.

Photograph by Jim Corley

Pig Barbecue

Pig Barbecue

The Callaway Mills textile plant was built in Manchester by Fuller E. Callaway in the early 1900s, and the annual company picnic was held every July 15, Callaway's birthday. Men are shown barbecuing pigs in preparation for the picnic.

Courtesy of Troup County Archives, Nix-Price Collection.

Stuart Woods

Stuart Woods

Manchester native Stuart Woods is a successful popular-fiction writer. His first novel, Chiefs (1981), is set in the fictional town of Delano, which shares many similarities with Manchester.

Photograph by Mark Coggins

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Segregated Railroad Station

Segregated Railroad Station

Signs above the doors at a railroad station in Manchester (Meriwether County), pictured in 1944, read "Colored Men" and "Colored Waiting Room," indicating segregated facilities.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, #LC-USF3301-001172-M4.

Callaway Mills, Aerial View

Callaway Mills, Aerial View

An aerial view of Callaway Mills in Manchester.

Courtesy of Troup County Archives, LaGrange, Callaway Educational Association Collection.

Lake Lanier

Lake Lanier

The town of Flowery Branch is located on the shores of Lake Lanier in north Georgia. The name Flowery Branch is the translation of the Cherokee word Anaguluskee, the town's original name.

Image from G. DAWSON

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Flowery Branch

Flowery Branch

In this photograph, dated 1911, workers are installing waterworks along Main Street in Flowery Branch. The town, about twelve miles from Gainesville, was incorporated in 1983.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
hal255.

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Flowery Branch Depot

Flowery Branch Depot

The old Southern Railway depot in Flowery Branch was restored and converted to a community center in the 1970s. The Flowery Branch Museum is housed in the railroad car beside the depot.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
hal219.

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Plains

Plains

Downtown Plains is part of the attraction for tourists visiting the area. Tourism is the main industry for Plains today, but the area has primarily been a farming community for most of its history.

Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

Historic Plains

Historic Plains

This historic postcard shows Main Street in downtown Plains in 1905. At the time, cotton farming was the largest local enterprise.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #sum135a.

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Carter Boyhood Farm

Carter Boyhood Farm

Jimmy Carter's boyhood home and farm in Plains, where the family grew peanuts, are managed today by the National Park Service.

Photograph from National Park Service

Maranatha Baptist Church

Maranatha Baptist Church

In Plains Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, where a large crowd usuallly gathers to attend the class.

Courtesy of National Park Service

Downtown Pelham

Downtown Pelham

Pelham, in Mitchell County, was incorporated in 1881 and named for a Civil War soldier.

Photograph by Greg Loyd

Hand Trading Company

Hand Trading Company

The Hand Trading Company was the largest mercantile store in southwest Georgia in the early twentieth century. Pictured in 1918, the four-story retail emporium featured nearly 100,000 feet of floor space.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # mit022.

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Pelham Television Station

Pelham Television Station

Located just outside the Pelham city limits, WABW-TV, Channel 14, is a full-power television station and a repeater of Georgia Public Broadcasting. The station's UHF tower broadcasts its signal as far south as Florida and well north of Albany.

Photograph by Greg Loyd

Lincoln County Historical Park

Lincoln County Historical Park

The four-acre park, located on Lumber Street in Lincolnton, is the primary project of the Lincoln County Historical Society. Several nineteenth-century structures are preserved on the site.

Image from J Stephen Conn

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Braselton Town Hall

Braselton Town Hall

William Henry Braselton, the first mayor of Braselton, built this house in the early 1900s. Today it is used as Braselton's town hall, and the structure is rumored to be haunted.

Image from Chris Pruitt

Chateau Elan

Chateau Elan

The Chateau Elan Resort and Winery in Braselton is a major tourist attraction northeast of Atlanta.

Image from Bruce Tuten

Braselton School Bell

Braselton School Bell

The bell that once rang for the Braselton High School, from 1920 to 1957, now sits on the grounds of Braselton's town hall.

Courtesy of Britney Compton

Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta, a 2.54-mile, 12-turn road-racing course in Braselton, is a major tourist attraction in Jackson County. The venue, part of the Panoz Motor Sports Group, offers a variety of motor-sport events, including sports car, motorcycle, and kart racing.

Image from Osajus Photography

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Florence Marina State Park

Florence Marina State Park

The Florence Marina State Park, about sixteen miles west of Lumpkin, is situated at the northern end of Lake Walter F. George. The park is one of many attractions in the area.

Courtesy of Matthew M. Moye

Evans Boyhood Home

Evans Boyhood Home

Brigadier general Clement Anselm Evans, a Confederate war hero who later became a Methodist minister, was born and reared in Lumpkin. The Evans home was built circa 1835.

Courtesy of Matthew M. Moye

Bedingfield Inn

Bedingfield Inn

The Bedingfield Inn, pictured before its restoration in 1965, was built in the antebellum era, when Lumpkin served as a stagecoach stop. Restoring the inn became the first small-town community preservation project in Georgia.

Courtesy of Stewart County Historical Commission

Pike County Courthouse

Pike County Courthouse

The Pike County Courthouse, designed in the Romanesque revival and colonial revival styles, was built in Zebulon in 1895. It is the county's third courthouse.

Courtesy of Don Bowman

Pike County Sawmill

Pike County Sawmill

Workers load logs for transport at a sawmill in Pike County, circa 1910. The timber industry continues to be an important economic activity in Pike County, which was created by the state legislature in 1822.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
pik001.

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Covington

Covington

The Newton County Courthouse rises over downtown Covington, known as both "the city of beautiful homes" and as "a full-service city." The city supports an active Main Street program, which revitalized the historic downtown and created new economic opportunity for Covington residents.

Image from Neal Wellons

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Covington Monument

Covington Monument

A monument in downtown Covington reads: "In loving and grateful memory of those citizens of Newton County who gave their lives in the defense of our country."

Photograph by Kate Howard, New Georgia Encyclopedia

In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

Cast members of the television series In the Heat of the Night pose during the filming of an episode in downtown Covington, circa 1994. From left, Denise Nicholas (Harriet DeLong), Carroll O'Connor (Sheriff Bill Gillespie), and Carl Weathers (Chief Hampton Forbes).

Tunnel Hill

Tunnel Hill

Tunnel Hill, a city in Whitfield County, was named for the 1,477-foot railroad tunnel exacavated through the Chetoogeta Ridge in 1848-49. The city served in 1864 as a winter camp for General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate troops during the Civil War.

Photograph by Ethan Geer

Whitfield County Courthouse

Whitfield County Courthouse

The Whitfield County Courthouse, located in Dalton, was completed in 2006. Designed in the modern style, the structure incorporates the previous courthouse, which was built on the site in 1961.

Photograph by Jimmy Emerson, DVM

Crown Cotton Mill

Crown Cotton Mill

Crown Cotton Mill No. 2, located on Chattanooga Avenue in Dalton, is pictured in the late 1920s. Established in 1884, Crown Cotton Mill brought much-needed economic activity to Whitfield County and by 1916 employed 1,000 workers.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
wtf014b.

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Mill Houses

Mill Houses

Mill houses line a street in Dalton, circa 1930. The carpet and textile industries in the city began in the late nineteenth century with the tufted bedspreads of Catherine Evans Whitener and by the 1940s had developed into a mechanized industry in Whitfield County.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
wtf013a.

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Wayne County Courthouse

Wayne County Courthouse

The Wayne County Courthouse, designed in the Romanesque revival style, was completed in 1903. Located in Jesup, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Courtesy of Don Bowman

Altamaha River

Altamaha River

Kayakers paddle down a stretch of the Altamaha River. The river played an integral role in the county's timber industry during the early nineteenth century as a means for transporting logs to the coast.

Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

Altamaha River, Darien

Altamaha River, Darien

Although the Darien economy is dependent on tourism, many locals continue to make a living through offshore fishing and shrimping.

Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

Hickory Hill

Hickory Hill

Hickory Hill, pictured circa 1910, was the home of noted senator and publisher Thomas E. Watson. Located in Thomson, the historic home, renovated to its 1920s appearance, is open to the public for tours by appointment.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
cob706.

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McDuffie County Courthouse

McDuffie County Courthouse

The McDuffie County Courthouse, located in Thomson, was built in 1872. Major renovations to the courthouse, the county's first, were made in 1934 and 1970.

Courtesy of Don Bowman

Rock House

Rock House

Rock House, built in 1785 near the Quaker community of Wrightsborough in McDuffie County, is considered to be the oldest standing building in Georgia with its original architecture intact.

Image from Jimmy Emerson, DVM

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