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Jimmy Farrar started singing when he was a child, in his hometown of LaGrange, Georgia while listening to songs on the radio. Farrar remembered he had a maid who had a stack of 78 records that he listened to in his early childhood, as early as four years old. B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and other blues and Motown artists were his influences.
Patrick J. Alger was born in 1947 in LaGrange, Georgia. [1] Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs. [3] In 1973, he moved to Woodstock, New York. [1]
Nellie Mae Rowe (July 4, 1900 – October 18, 1982) [1] was an African-American artist from Fayette County, Georgia.Although she is best known today for her colorful works on paper, Rowe worked across mediums, creating drawings, collages, altered photographs, hand-sewn dolls, home installations and sculptural environments.
Business owners, artists, TV personalities, doctors and more were among the first cohort of local women to be honored as “Central Georgia Women of Impact” over the weekend.
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LaGrange is a city in and the county seat of Troup County, Georgia, United States.The population of the city was estimated to be 30,858 in 2020 by the U.S. Census Bureau. [4] [5] It is the principal city of the LaGrange, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama (part) combined statistical area.
This is a list of properties and districts in Troup County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 6, 2024.
Newman was born in LaGrange, Georgia.He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Georgia, and received an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1978. Fred Newman married Katy Dobbs in 1985, [4] and the couple has two children: Gil John Newman (son) and Lila Claire Newman (daughter).