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American green tree frog Hyla cinerea: 2005 [1] [2] Art museum Georgia Museum of Art: 1982 [3] Atlas The Atlas of Georgia 1985 [4] Ballet company Atlanta Ballet: 1973 [5] Beef barbecue championship Cook-off The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship 1997 [6] [7] Bird: Brown thrasher Toxostoma rufum: 1935 (1970) [note ...
Due to Rome's forts and iron works, which included the manufacture of cannons, Rome was a significant target during Sherman's march through Georgia to take and destroy Confederate resources. [22] Davis' forces occupied Rome for several months, [ 23 ] making repairs to use the damaged forts and briefly quartering General Sherman.
The brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia. This list of birds of Georgia includes species documented in the U.S. state of Georgia and accepted by the Checklist and Records Committee of the Georgia Ornithological Society (GOSRC). As of August 2020, there are 427 species definitively included in the official list.
Pennsylvania never chose an official state bird, but did choose the ruffed grouse as the state game bird. [3] Alaska , California , and South Dakota permit hunting of their state birds. Alabama , Georgia , Massachusetts , Missouri , Oklahoma , South Carolina , and Tennessee have designated an additional "state game bird" for the purpose of hunting.
The Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area in the U.S. state of Georgia, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Floyd – in Northwest Georgia. As of the 2000 census , the MSA had a population of 90,565 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 96,250).
The state of Georgia has approximately 250 tree species and 58 protected plants. Georgia's native trees include red cedar, a variety of pines, oaks, hollies, cypress, sweetgum, scaly-bark and white hickories, and sabal palmetto. East Georgia is in the subtropical coniferous forest biome and conifer species as other broadleaf evergreen flora ...
List of birds of Georgia may refer to: List of birds of Georgia (country) List of birds of Georgia (U.S. state) This page was last edited on 16 ...
Marshall Forest is located in Floyd County, in Georgia, 5 miles (8.0 km) outside the Rome city limits. It is one of the few remaining old-growth forests in Northwest Georgia. Marshall Forest is referred to as the only virgin forest within city limits of any city in the USA. [1] The forest is 311 acres (126 ha). [2]