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Georgia Landmarks

for: EPRM Landmark Reference

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Spaghetti Junction of Atlanta - multi-layer of loops and bridges located where I-85 and I-285 intersect on the northeast side of Atlanta

Lake Lanier - Largest man-made lake in the State of Georgia.

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The Grandstand of the old Hall county Race Track has been under water since 1957, when Lake Lanier was first created. Due to the drought, some remains have resurfaced.

Georgia Poultry Park

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Georgia Poultry Park is in the center of Gainesville, Georgia. It has a 25 foot tall Georgia marble monument topped by a 36 inch bronze rooster, featuring poultry industry information on six plaques at it's base. This statue commemorate's Gainesville's status as "Chicken capital of the world." The street in front of the statue is Jesse Jewell Pkwy. named after the man who revolutionized the poultry industry by utilizing assembly line techniques.

The Gainesville Midland

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Information about the Gainesville midland can be found at the bottom of the following link's website:
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000382

You can find an image of what the Gainesville Midland looked like in the 1950's, by the following link. In the background of the image, you can see a building with the word
"snow drift" on it. That building was once the depot, then a grocery store, and was one of the only historic buildings still standing after a double tornado hit Gainesville
in 1936. The building remained standing behind where the Gainesville Midland stands today, until the middle of 2008 when it was demolished, and paved over as a parking lot.
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vanga/photos/hal/jpg/hal191.jpg

More photographs of the Gainesville Midland can be found at this link, unfortunately I wasn't alive during the time to take them myself.
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/meta.cgi?dbs=meta&;ini=meta.ini&action=query&numrecs=10&index=su&term=%22Gainesville%20Midland%20Railway%22&h1=h1&h2=h2&format=.&_cc=1

The Confederate Soldiers

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'To the Defenders of the Confederacy, Patriots'. In the middle of down town Gainesville's square. In memory of the confederate soldiers.

Other Southern Landmarks Not in Georgia

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Galveston, TX: located on Hwy 87 (Ferry Road), continues to be one of Galveston's most popular attractions. Riders can park and ride the ferry or drive their vehicle aboard the ferry. Ferries run approximately every fifteen to twenty minutes and are free.

[Xuan.]

2009-01-13 [Hedda]: Nice start! Does that man-made lake have a name?

Aha, Lake Lanier it says in the title... Blind me.

2009-01-13 [Hedda]: I added the names in the subtexts too, and removed an extra newline so that the boxes are beside each other instead of on top of each other.

2009-01-13 [Xuan.]: :] Thank you! i was going to ask for your help, but I don't remember if i messaged your, or accidentally messaged someone else. this is going to be a fun project, I can talk my husband into getting me out of the house! lol.

2009-01-14 [Hedda]: I watch the contest page and try to help everyone <img:stuff/cheshmak.gif>

2009-01-25 [Xuan.]: can you help me make them clickable so others can view larger?

2009-01-25 [Hedda]: I just did. Where do you get those strange links from?

2009-01-25 [Xuan.]: What do you mean strange. I uploaded them to a seperate wiki and then copied the links from there, it would have probably helped if I had copied them from the edit view. :] Thank you very much mister hedda!!!

2009-01-26 [Hedda]: Yes, it's much better to copy from the edit-view (advanced edit)

Otherwise you have to copy the right link. That is: The link to the big image, not to the thumbnail. And then write in img300:

2009-01-26 [Xuan.]: :], so what do you think about my page so far? I tried to make it very informational, since that is kind of the point of landmarks.

2009-01-26 [Hedda]: It's great! No need to go to Georgia now <img:stuff/zabuN-gif.gif>

2009-01-26 [Xuan.]: lol. haha, well you aren't missing out on too much, well not in Gainesville atleast.

2009-04-15 [jaraden]: brilliant photos here!! great perspectives and subjects!!!! wicked!

2009-04-16 [Xuan.]: Thank you!!

2009-04-17 [jaraden]: no problems!

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