Roy Barnes 2010

The “Arch,” modeled after the State Seal of Georgia, was erected on the University of Georgia’s North Campus in the 1850s.

76 governments from throughout the world have consular offices and/or trade representation in Atlanta and 39 bi-national chambers of commerce call the city home.

The Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island is home to Geechee families that have been living on the island for centuries.

If Georgia were a stand-alone country, it would be the 28th largest in the world.

Georgia Tech is ranked #1 in the U.S. in terms of producing African-American engineering graduates.

Amicalola Falls in Dawsonville is the tallest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi River.

Georgia has actually had three governors simultaneously - twice!!

The city of Adel got its name from the center letters of the word "PhilADELphia".

The oldest portable steam engine in the United States on display at the Historic Railroad Shops in Savannah, Georgia.

Each year Georgia serves as host to the International Poultry Trade Show, the largest poultry convention in the world.

Columbus, GA, is home to the Civil War Naval Museum (even though it’s inland!)

Ware County is Georgia’s largest county by area.  Athens-Clarke County is Georgia’s smallest.

Carters Lake, in Gilmer/Murray County, is Georgia’s deepest lake.

Dwight Eisenhower visited Augusta, GA 45 times, even having a cabin built for him at Augusta National Golf Club.

Georgia is the nation’s number one producer of the five “P’s”—peanuts, pecans, pimentos, poultry, and pine—but amazingly, not peaches!

Berry College, in Rome, has the world’s largest college campus.

Coach Glen “Pop” Warner led UGA football to its first undefeated season in 1896.

The name of Okefenokee Swamp derives from an Indian word meaning "trembling earth."

In the 1930s, the Department of Agriculture paid farmers $8 an acre to cultivate Kudzu to help control erosion.