1. The Piedmont region

2. First state-chartered university in America (1785)
University of Georgia
Athens, Ga.
First state-chartered university in America (1785)

3. Lake Lanier

4. Lake Lanier: At a Glance
39,000 acres of water
692 miles of shoreline
Created from the Chattahoochee and Chestatee Rivers by Buford Dam
Authorized by Congress in 1946
Construction began in 1951
Opened in 1956
8 million annual visitors
68 parks and recreation areas

5. Buford Dam at Lake Lanier

6. Buford Dam at Lake Lanier

7. Lake Lanier: Drought Conditions

8. Stone Mountain

12. Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis

13. Georgia’s capitol building

15. 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.‘
August, 1963, in a speech to civil rights supporters at the March on Washington.

17. Maynard Jackson Atlanta’s first African-American mayor

18. Ted Turner
Founder of CNN and one-time owner of the Braves (baseball) and Hawks (basketball)

19. Centennial Olympic Park

20. Georgia Tech

21. Georgia Dome

23. Turner Field

24. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
World’s busiest passenger airport every year since 1998

25. #1 Hartsfield-Jackson: 90,039,280 #2 O’Hare (Chicago): 69,353,654 2008 statistics

26. Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia

27. (near Columbus on the GA - Alabama border)
The Little White House
Warm Springs, Georgia
(near Columbus on the GA - Alabama border)

28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
US President ( )
Made 41 visits to Warm Springs, Georgia

29. FDR in Warm Springs, Georgia
The water at Warm Springs maintains an average temperature of about 88 degrees and bubbles out of nearby Pine Mountain
According to legend, sick and injured Creek Indians once came to the springs to recover from their illnesses
He generally visited in late March and April and again in the fall, when he traditionally shared Thanksgiving dinner with other patients.
He made 41 visits – seeking to rebuild leg muscles weakened by polio