Escape to the Southeast - 2009-10 Edition

GEORGIA
History Makers Call Georgia Home

FDR’s Little White House, Warm Springs

lar novels of all time, Gone With the Wind,
was written in Atlanta by native Georgian
Margaret Mitchell. Flannery O’Connor is
another highly-praised Georgia author and
many of her best works were written and
published while she was living at Andalusia,
the O’Connor family farm in Milledgeville.
The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home
in Savannah allows visitors to experience
part of the great writer’s childhood. An-
other world-famous Georgia author hailing
from Eatonton is Alice Walker . She shares
her hometown with Joel Chandler Harris,
creator of the “Uncle Remus” character and
second in popularity only to Mark Twain
at the time of his death. In Eatonton, The
Uncle Remus Museum is full of authentic
period mementos associated with
Harris’ lovable character.
Georgia’s place in the epic
struggle for equal rights is sec-
ond to none. Lucy Craft Laney
has gone down in history as one
of Georgia’s most influential edu-
cational leaders. A portrait of her
was commissioned and unveiled
in the Georgia State Capitol, and
her Augusta home was restored in
1991 and opened as the Lucy Craft
Laney Museum of Black History.
Georgia’s most famous and influ-
ential civil rights leader was Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in

Atlanta’s “Sweet Auburn” neighborhood, Dr. King was a figurehead in the community as well as the world. Learn more about America’s best-known civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.

Explore these famous Georgians and the sites associated with them and see where history is made.

Visit www.ExploreGeorgia.org.

U.S. presidents, literary masters and civil rights leaders have all called Georgia home.

President Jimmy Carter is well known for his actions on the national and international stages, but he is also remembered in Georgia as a young Governor. Today, take a trip to his restored 1930’s boyhood farm in Plains for an educational journey to another time that documents the childhood and life of America’s 39th president. Open to the public daily, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta includes photos and memorabilia from Carter’s presidency. The only house Franklin D. Roosevelt ever owned was his Little White House in Warm Springs. Now a protected historic site preserved much as he left it, Roosevelt’s Little White House is home to rare artifacts such as his 1938 Ford convertible with custom hand controls and the “Unfinished Portrait”. The 32nd president is also honored by the largest state park

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta

in Georgia: Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. President Woodrow Wilson spent the formative years of his youth in Augusta. The Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated an official “Save America’s Treasures” site.