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Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the Theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic. The venue is on the Athens Music History Walking Tour sponsored by the Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Sumter County was a swing county in presidential elections. Since 1960, it has voted Democratic eight times, including in 1976, when Sumter County native Jimmy Carter was elected, Republican six times, and for a third-party candidate (George Wallace) once. The last candidate to carry the county by more than 10 points was Bill Clinton in 1996.
More than 40 years ago, Margaritaville came to Athens. Jimmy Buffett, the beach-loving singer who died Friday, performed at the Georgia Coliseum on April 17, 1979.Student admission was $3. Buffett ...
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With the Georgia Theater taking over as the high-capacity venue and with the closure of the smaller Uptown, there was again a market for a small club that would focus on local acts. In 1991, [ 3 ] the 40 Watt moved to its fifth and current location at 285 West Washington Street, the former Potter's House Thrift store building.
A post office called Sumter was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1954. [2] Like Sumter County, the community is named after Thomas Sumter, a United States Senator from South Carolina. [3] The Webb Family Farm in Sumter was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [4]
Oct. 23—AMERICUS — Georgia Southwestern State University was recently named the "Best Place to Work" in the Americus Times-Recorder's Best of Sumter 2022 Readers' Choice Awards after being ...