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Welcome to Georgia Backroads Magazine, a premier
source for information on Georgia history, nature, travel ideas and
genealogy.
If you're interested in Georgia history, our natural
environment, travel, or if you simply enjoy
excellent writing and superb photography (with a
minimum of advertising!), you will love Georgia
Backroads. We're glad you're here and hope
you'll enjoy browsing through samples of our
articles. Georgia Backroads - Everything
Georgia!
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Current Issue
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 Summer
2009
• Vanishing
Georgia: Children of the
Loom
• The Titanic
Disaster Affects a Small
Georgia Town
• Honoring
America in Georgia
• Metcalf Depot: A Story of
Reclamation
• Georgia's Monster Mud
Snake
• Flannery
O'Connor's Andalusia Farm
• The Monroe Girls Drum &
Bugle Corps: Georgia's
Goodwill Ambassadors |
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Sample Articles
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 Vanishing
Georgia: Tenants of the
Almighty
• When my parents
moved the family from
Fairview Avenue in Decatur,
Georgia, to a very rural
part of Greene County in
August 1940, they must have
known what they were doing.
My father, a rural
sociologist employed by the
USDA, had done a study of
Greene and Macon Counties a
few years before, and he
knew quite a few people in
Greensboro and other towns.
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 History:
Rebel Lion at Burnside's
Bridge
• Outnumbered
nearly thirty-five to one
and led by a politically
appointed general with
little military experience,
the Georgians defending a
key bridge over Antietam
Creek didn't stand a chance.
But when the enemy finally
attacked, they found a Rebel
Lion at Burnside's Bridge.
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 Travel:
The Majesties of Little St.
Simon's Island
• It has existed on the Georgia coast for millennia, buffering the state’s
southeastern border against harsh storms and providing a safe haven for a plethora
of wildlife. In more recent history, it has played host to a plantation aristocracy,
an outspoken English actress, and a benevolent family whose descendants still own
it today.
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