Wordless: Atlanta Airport

It's been many weeks since I participated in Wordless Wednesday.  This picture of the Atlanta airport as I remember it when I was a little girl prompted me to participate.

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Georgia’s Stone Mountain……website.


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This is the boyhood home of President Woodrow Wilson and is located in Augusta, Georgia.

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Happy Wednesday!

Isn’t this an interesting looking lady?

She is Etheldra Prothro King……Mrs. Walter Ernest – and she is dressed to go to the opera….can’t imagine one in Cuthbert where she was from, so she must have traveled to Augusta…..or perhaps she was traveling to the Springer Opera House in Columbus.

The picture vault at the Georgia Archives lists her as president of the garden club in Cuthbert and instrumental in the Iris Garden. The garden still exists today…..This link shows students from Andrew College working in the garden.

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Old Capital Museum

The place where Georgia legislators voted to secede from the Union…..and it was the first public building designed in the Gothic Revival style in America.

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Wordless: Georgia Tech

Part of the Georgia Tech….Georgia School of Technology campus…..1888

Photo: Vanishing Georgia, Division of Archives and History, Office of Secretary of State

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Wordless: Atlanta Street Scene

This was taken heading down Peachtree on our way to Lenox Mall.....December 18, 2009.

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Wordless: Georgia Pecan Trees

A road winding through a grove of pecan trees somewhere between Unadilla and Cordele, Georgia.

Happy Wednesday!

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Wordless: Margaret Mitchell House

This is the place that Margaret Mitchell….author of Gone With the Wind…lived while she wrote the famous novel. She referred to it as “The Dump”.

Today the Tudor Revival style home is maintained and owned by the Atlanta History Center and is included on the National Register of Historic Places. A museum is included on the property today which is devoted to the film version of Gone With the Wind.

The official Margaret Mitchell House website can be found here.

Have a great Wordless Wednesday!

Wordless: Gainesville Tornado

Following the terrible 1936 tornado that destroyed Gainesville, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the town when they dedicated a new civic center including a new city hall and Hall County courthouse on March 23, 1938.

The Digital Library of Georgia states, “Roosevelt praised the people of Gainesville for their remarkable achievement in rebuilding the city better than it was before the storm, and suggested that this excellent example of local good citizenship could also be usefully applied in a national setting.” You can see the transcript of Roosevelt’s speech here.

You can find out more about the 1936 Gainesville tornado here.

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Wordless: Centennial Olympic Park

This is a short video about the park that was front and center during the 1996 Summer Olympics:



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Wordless: Mark Trail

Have you seen the Mark Trail exhibit at the Northeast Georgia History Center at Brenau University? The museum’s website states:

Mark Trail is the creation of Ed Dodd whose work in the National Parks along with his experiences as a hunter, fisherman, and world traveler inspired him to start the adventure strip in 1946. Born in 1902 in Lafayette, Georgia, Dodd went to work for Dan Beard at the age of 16. Dan Beard was the founder or the Boy Scouts of America and Ed Dodd worked at Beard’s camp in Pennsylvania for thirteen summers. While there, Dodd learned writing and illustration under Beard’s guidance. In 1926 Ed Dodd became the first paid Youth and Physical Education Director for the city of Gainesville, Georgia.
You can find out more by visiting the museum webpage for the Mark Trail exhibit here.

This is not a permanent exhibit for the museum so don’t let the grass grow under your feet.

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Wordless: Marshallville Train Depot

This is the old train station at Marshallville, Georgia. I found the image at Georgia's Railroad History and Heritage site where you can find lots of information regarding railroads in Georgia.

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Wordless: Chateau Elan

Ah, the chateaus and wine growing areas of France. Beautiful, right?

I agree. This is a beautiful scene, but this image is NOT France.

This 16th-century style French chateau sits on 3,500 acres 40 minutes north of Atlanta and is fondly known as Chateau Elan. It is the largest winery in Georgia and also serves as a great destination for weddings, corporate retreats and meetings, golf and spa weekends as well as romantic weekends.

The property offers 11 different meeting venues, four golf courses, a European spa, an art gallery, eight restaurants, an equestrian show center, and a wine market.

You can visit Chatea Elan’s homepage Chateau Elan.

This is my fourth Wordless Wednesday foray here at Georgia on My Mind. You can visit with other Wordless participants here.

Wordless: Providence Canyon

Did you know Georgia had her own version of the Grand Canyon? This is an image of Providence Canyon State Park. The deepest part of the 16 different canyons dip 150 feet, and the beauty you see is a direct result of poor farming practices in the 1800s.

Providence Canyon State Park is located in Lumpkin, Georgia near the Alabama-Georgia state line and Walter F. George Resevoir. It falls within the confines of Stewart County.

Aren’t the colors amazing? The state park site states that the result of the erosion is several million years of geologic record has been exposed. Minerals have stained the sediments and that’s why we see colors that range from white to various shades of pink, purple, red, brown, yellow, and black.

Providence Canyon is one of the places you can view the very rare plumleaf azalea (it’s found only in southwestern Georgia and eastern Alabama). It blooms from mid to late summer.

Once colonists moved into this area of Georgia they cleared the land and took no measures to avoid soil erosion. By 1850 ditches three to five feet deep had been cut in the land per New Georgia Encyclopedia.

The issue of erosion seems like a bad thing so you might wonder why locals came up with the name Providence. Apparently the name stems from a church named Providence Methodist Church that had been established in 1832. The church and a schoolhouse stood on land that now lies between the main gorges. In 1859 a new church was built across the road from the canyon and is used occasionally today per the New Georgia article.

This is my third Wordless Wednesday foray here at Georgia on My Mind. You can visit with other Wordless participants here.

Wordless: Swan House

When I was a little girl my mother took my sister and I out about Atlanta for girly lunches at various places. By far our favorite lunch place was The Swan Coach House, and we visted often. I adored the main dining room which was lavished in pink and green décor. The coach house is on the grounds of the grand Swan House Mansion that is seen in the image above.

Here is the opposite side of the grand home:

Today, a visit to my favorite Atlanta girly lunch place includes an all day forway into all things Atlanta history since the Atlanta History Center maintains the Swan House and includes a wondeful museum for Atlanta History.

This is my second Wordless Wednesday foray here at Georgia on My Mind. What better way to share images of my state with people from across the web!

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Wordless: Etowah Mounds

This is an image of the Etowah Mounds located near Cartersville, Georgia. The natives known as the Moundbuilders first arrived in the area around 950 A.D. One of it’s last great cities was located between the Etowah River and Pumpkinvine Creek. The Etowah Mounds State Park consists of 54-acres and includes 7 mounds, pits, plaza, portions of the original village and a museum.

The Moundbuilders were part of the Mississippian culture which featured advanced agricultual techniques, a form of government that was passed down from family member to family member (much like a monarchy), religion, and trade.

Archeologists and historians have proof that the natives who lived at this spot had direct relations with nearby Woodland Indians as well as Mound Builders from Ocmulgee near Macon, Georgia.

I wrote about Georgia’s mound builders a few months ago here.

This is my first Wordless Wednesday foray here at Georgia on My Mind in a long, long time. What better way to share images of my state with people from across the web! You can visit with other Wordless participants here.

Wordless Puzzler

My wordless image for the week is up over at History Is Elementary. I need someone to tell me what the structure is, what it is used for, and where it is. My first hint was that the building is in the south.

The second hint is it is not a tomb, and the structure has a Georgia connection yet it is not located in Georgia.

Intrigued? Check it out here!

All guesses should be posted at History Is Elementary.

Mystery Pictures

A blogging friend of mine has a mystery picture up over at her site. She states there is a Georgia connection. Go visit the Educational Tour Marm. Do you know who THIS is?

Also I have a picture not from Georgia history over at my other site, History Is Elementary. Can you identify it? There are several hints given in the comments. The winner always earns a link in my explanation post.

Wordless Wednesday

I posted this image over at History Is Elementary for Wordless Wednesday. I posted it here as well because there is a Georgia connection.

Do you know who painted this image?

Look for an explanation later in the week over at History Is Elementary.

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This week's host will be Elisheva over at Got Bible? You can send submissions to her as well at elisheva@writeme.com.