The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, November 12, 1864. The Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta, in Grant Park, was painted in 1885-1886 from descriptions by veterans who were there, and is one of the most accurate war paintings in existence.
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The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, November 12, 1864. The Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta, in Grant Park, was painted in 1885-1886 from descriptions by veterans who were there, and is one of the most accurate war paintings in existence.
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Cloudland Canyon State Park is located in northwest Georgia, on the western edge of Lookout Mountain. Boulder-strewn Sitton Gulch Creek cuts a deep gorge into the mountain. Sitton's Gulch Trail runs parallel to the creek. The short, steep Waterfalls Trail, with stairs down into the canyon, leads to Cherokee Falls and Hemlock Falls, where water cascades down into pools. Nearby, Sitton’s Cave has mineral formations.
Located at 122 Cloudland Canyon Park Road in Rising Fawn, Georgia.
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Sculptor Daniel Chester French, who also designed the state of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, designed the 9-foot bronze statue of James Oglethorpe, dedicated in 1910. The base and pedestal are the work of New York architect Henry Bacon who also worked with French on the Lincoln Memorial. General James Oglethorpe was a British soldier who founded the Georgia colony on February 12, 1733. Located in Chippewa Square, 3 West Perry Street, Savannah, Georgia.
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Florence Martus (1868–1943), also known as "the Waving Girl", took it upon herself to be the unofficial greeter of all ships that entered and left the Port of Savannah, Georgia, between 1887 and 1931. A few years after she began waving at passing sailors, she moved in with her brother, a light keeper, at his small white cottage about five miles up the river from Fort Pulaski. From her rustic home on Elba Island, a tiny piece of land in the Savannah River near the Atlantic Ocean, Martus would wave a handkerchief by day and a lantern by night. According to legend, not a ship was missed in her forty-four years on watch. A statue of Martus by the sculptor Felix de Weldon has been erected in Morrell Park on the historic riverfront of Savannah.
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