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History
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Believing in the need to educate its young people after the American Revolution, Georgia was the first state to charter a state university.
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Three years into the Revolutionary War, the British turned its focus to the South and capturing the port of Savannah.
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Producing 3.
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The mansion, abandoned when the capital moved to Atlanta, later became the founding building for Georgia Normal & Industrial College.
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For UGA students, stories of hauntings are just a part of the school’s culture but perhaps no haunting is as tragic as that of Waddel Hall.
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Lake Lanier’s history is as murky as its deep waters. The lake has always been controversial, and some believe that it’s also haunted.
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Doc Holliday had a reputation as a bad man, but one with good manners instilled in him by his mama during his childhood in Griffin, Georgia.
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We’ll never know exactly when gold was first discovered in Georgia, but the first documentation of it was in August 1829 in an article in the Georgia Journal, a Milledgeville newspaper.
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After the first lighthouse was destroyed in the Civil War, the current St. Simons Lighthouse and Keeper’s Dwelling was built in 1872.