2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1509+ words) Button Gwinnett didn’t want to be in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress in the summer of 1776, and not just because a heat wave gripped the city and delegates dressed in wool and powdered wigs. Gwinnett, one of three Georgians…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1145+ words) WAYNESVILLE — Regina Hunter smelled the smoke a week ago Monday. A few hours later, as dusk turned to twilight, she saw the glow of the flames. The next day, as the small wildfire down the road became a raging one…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (564+ words) TYBEE ISLAND ― Georgia’s most popular beach is thinning and the federal funds to fatten up the shore won’t be coming as scheduled. Tybee Island officials learned Tuesday the island’s periodic beach renourishment project has been cut from the U.S....

9+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1450+ words) SPRING PLACE — Near the edge of this tiny North Georgia community lies a grassy field topped with rustic split-rail fences and weathered gray stone monuments. Called “God’s Acre,” this is the final resting place for a diverse group of people…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago   (548+ words) A second Native American boarding school operated in Georgia during the 19th century, though far less is known about it than the one Moravian missionaries established earlier at Spring Place near Chatsworth. Both schools are intertwined with the man who became…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (623+ words) A homeowners association for a luxury Buckhead condo community has agreed to fund the restoration and maintenance of a historic Black cemetery on its property, ending an almost two-year court battle with descendants of people buried there. Bluffs at Lenox…...