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Rhodes Hall. The Georgia Archives was established on August 20, 1918, after a prolonged effort on the part of the Archives' first director, Lucian Lamar Knight. [2] The Archives occupied a balcony in the State Capitol Building for twelve years until 1930, when furniture magnate Amos G. Rhodes left his home, "Rhodes Hall", to the state.
In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County.
Pages in category "Deaths by person in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville , but the four victims, two married couples, were ...
It's one of multiple Christmas movies filmed in Georgia. "Dashing Through the Snow" Rated PG, released Nov. 17, 2023: After a traumatic experience, a social worker (Ludacris) no longer believes in ...
Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
Pages in category "Death in Georgia (U.S. state)" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. T. Tri-State Crematory scandal