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  2. List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    November 7, 1973. (#71000265) Macon. 32°50′29″N 83°38′16″W  /  32.84130°N 83.63765°W  / 32.84130; -83.63765  (Carmichael House) Bibb. Greek Revival house from the 1840s, with a spiral staircase in a central tower. 6. Central of Georgia Railroad Shops and Terminal. Central of Georgia Railroad Shops and Terminal.

  3. List of World Heritage Sites in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Georgia ratified the convention on 4 November 1992. [3] As of 2020, Georgia has four sites on the list and a further fourteen on the tentative list. The first two sites inscribed to the list were the Historical Monuments of Mtskheta and the site comprising Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery, in 1994.

  4. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    The site has evidence of "12,000 years of continuous human habitation." [5] The 3,336-acre (13.50 km 2) park is located on the east bank of the Ocmulgee River. Macon, Georgia developed around the site after the United States built Fort Benjamin Hawkins nearby in 1806 to support trading with Native Americans.

  5. Etowah Indian Mounds - Wikipedia

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    Etowah Indian Mounds (9BR1) are a 54-acre (220,000 m 2) archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville. Built and occupied in three phases, from 1000–1550 CE, the prehistoric site is located on the north shore of the Etowah River. Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site is a designated National Historic Landmark, managed by ...

  6. Kolomoki Mounds - Wikipedia

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    October 15, 1966 [1] Designated NHL. July 19, 1964 [2] The Kolomoki Mounds is one of the largest and earliest Woodland period earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States [3] and is the largest in Georgia. Constructed from 350 to 600, the mound complex is located in southwest Georgia, in present-day Early County near the ...

  7. Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km 2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Within the park is his boyhood home, and Ebenezer Baptist Church — the church where King was baptized and both he and his father, Martin ...

  8. New Echota - Wikipedia

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    New Echota was the capital of the Cherokee Nation in the Southeastern United States from 1825 until their forced removal in the late 1830s. New Echota is located in present-day Gordon County, in northwest Georgia, north of Calhoun. It is south of Resaca, next to present day New Town, known to the Cherokee as Ꭴꮝꮤꮎꮅ, Ustanali.

  9. History of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    The history of Atlanta dates back to 1836, when Georgia decided to build a railroad to the U.S. Midwest and a location was chosen to be the line's terminus. The stake marking the founding of "Terminus" was driven into the ground in 1837 (called the Zero Mile Post).

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