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South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American-founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia.An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country. [3]
He moved the paper to Tifton in 1891 and renamed it to the Tifton Gazette. The paper was sold to J. L. Herring in 1896 who ran it until his death in 1923. [2] Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. acquired the paper in 2000 from Thomson. [3] In May 2024, CNHI sold the newspaper to Carpenter Media Group. [4]
March 4, 1986 (Roughly bounded by Second and Third Sts., Love, and Central Aves. (original) Roughly bounded by Third St., Tift Ave., Ninth St. and Commerce Way (increase)
Tifton is located in south central Georgia along Interstate 75, which runs north to south through the city, leading north 167 mi (269 km) to Atlanta and south 45 mi (72 km) to Valdosta. Other highways that pass through the city include U.S. Route 41 , U.S. Route 82 , U.S. Route 319 , and Georgia State Route 125 .
Southview Cemetery is a cemetery in Augusta, Georgia in an area known as "The Avenues". The area became a 15-acre-wide (6.1 ha) cemetery in the 1910s. [1] History
The county was created on August 17, 1905, and is named for Henry Harding Tift, who founded Tifton in 1872.Tift purchased about 65,000 acres of virgin pine timberland there in the Wiregrass Region of South Georgia, and established a sawmill and a village for his workers.
Ford Belmont Spinks, Sr. (April 5, 1927 – July 27, 2016) was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate from 1962 to 1971. After his senate term, he was a public services commissioner of Georgia from 1971 to 1989. He was a farm equipment dealer. [1] Spinks died on July 27, 2016. [2]
The Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village, formerly known as Agrirama, is a 19th-century living museum located in Tifton, Georgia. It opened on July 4, 1976. It opened on July 4, 1976. The grounds consist of five areas: a traditional farm community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town ...