Georgia history, scenic attractions and Southern lifestyles

 

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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Summer 2009Summer 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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 Recent Issues

Spring 2009Spring 2009
• Vanishing Georgia: Lathemtown
• Georgia Gambler Henry Byrom
• The Great Yazoo Land Fraud
• The Sky is Falling!
• Nathan Bedford Forrest's Teenaged Warriors
• Indigo Snakes
• Bill Arp's Uncivil War

 

Winter 2008Winter 2008
• Small Town Life
• Georgia Before Columbus
• Dr. Leila Denmark
• Broxton Rocks
• True Frogs of Georgia
• Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation
• New Deal Art
Autumn 2008 Autumn 2008
• Vanishing Georgia:  Tenants of the Almighty
• Georgia's Border Wars
• Civil War Ironclads
• Federal Army Besieges Atlanta
• Sweet Grass Dairy

 

Summer 2008 Summer 2008
• Georgia's WWII Airfields
• The Altamaha River
• Okenfenokee Queen
• Mysterious Silver Crosses
• Rebel Lion Robert Toombs
Spring 2008 Spring 2008
• Vanishing Georgia:  The Old Home Place
• Magnificent Flying Machine
• Stills, Murals, and Mills
• Murder in Clarkesville
• Once Grand Radium Springs
Winter 2007 Winter 2007
• Vanishing Georgia:  Presidents & Royalty
• Lost Spanish Colony
• Top Secret Nuclear Lab
• Colonial Forts and Coastal Fish Camps
• Confederate Officer Meets with Lincoln
• Still Small Voices
• Best-selling Author Killed in the Pacific

 

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We Shall Die Together We Shall Die Together and Forty-Four Other Stories of Turmoil, Tragedy and Triumph in Georgia

If you love Georgia history, this soon-to-be-published book is a must-read.  It contains more than 370 pages and 200 fascinating photographs - many never before published in book form!

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 Sample Articles

Tenants of the AlmightyVanishing 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.  Read more...
 
Rebel Lion at Burnside's BridgeHistory: 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.  Read more...
 
The Majesties of Little St. Simon's IslandTravel: 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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