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CUMMING, Ga. — Driving through present-day Forsyth County is like navigating an American landscape haunted by its history. Centuries-old churches and storied cemeteries carry remnants of past ...
Joe Patterson founded Forsyth County News in 1908 in downtown Cumming, Georgia. [2] Joe Patterson sold the newspaper to Roy P. Otwell, who then combined the North Georgian and Forsyth County News into one newspaper. [2] In 1954, Charles Smithgall Sr. bought the newspaper and eventually sold it to News Corp in the 1970s.
Headline and lead paragraph in The Atlanta Georgian of September 10, 1912, reporting the lynching of Rob Edwards Location of Forsyth County within the U.S. state of Georgia. In Forsyth County, Georgia, in September 1912, two separate alleged attacks on white women in the Cumming area resulted in black men being accused as suspects. First, a ...
Eugene Ely, first naval aviator, crashed and died in Macon in 1911, in an exhibition, after removing his front elevator from his plane; Nate Holden, former California State Senator; Perry Keith, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; born near Macon in 1847; David Perdue, former United States senator of Georgia
Melton was born in Arlington, Georgia, on October 24, 1923. [2] [3] He was the youngest child of Reverend Henry Martin Melton, a Baptist minister, and Mary Marguerite (née Layman) Melton. He was raised in Moultrie, Georgia, and graduated from Moultrie High School in 1941. [4] He first visited Macon, Georgia, when he was six years old. [2]
A new The Macon Telegraph and News was published as a morning paper seven days a week. During this era, Randall Savage and Jackie Crosby earned the paper its lone Pulitzer Prize to date in 1985 for an investigation into academic and athletics at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology .
The 4-acre (1.6-hectare) cemetery was established in 1825, just southeast of what is today downtown Macon, Georgia. [2] Referred to as "God's Acre" by Maconites, individuals interred at the cemetery include a major from the American Revolutionary War and the daughter of Jared Irwin, a Governor of Georgia. [2]
Juanita Black, social activist whose husband was first Georgia state trooper killed in the line of duty [6] Charles L. Bowden, mayor of Macon, Georgia from 1938 to 1947 and the namesake of the Charles L. Bowden Golf Course [7] Peter E. Dennis, architect of the cemetery [8]