The city celebrated its 149th birthday this year. Though it was incorporated in 1872, the city, a suburb of Atlanta, had been home to a community since at least the 1830s.
A fireworks display capped off the evening.
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Sightseers’ Delight started publishing in June 2016. The site, published by The DeFeo Groupe, collects and curates content about places where historical events large and small happened. The site builds off the legacy of The Travel Trolley, which launched in June 2009. The site aimed to be a virtual version of the trolley tours offered in so many cities.
ATLANTA — A Dougherty County Superior Court judge signed a death warrant for convicted killer Marcus Ray Johnson. Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens has set Oct. 5 as the date for Johnson’s execution. Johnson is set to died by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Johnson was convicted for the 1994 murder of Angela Sizemore. If executed, he will be the 30th inmate in Georgia put to death by
The Explorations in Antiquity Center in LaGrange recently unveiled its new Biblical Life Artifacts Gallery to display artifacts from the Bronze Age through the late Byzantine Period.
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