Georgia
245 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Coca-Cola and the New South
- Cotton, the Gin, and the Slave Economy
- Gold at Dahlonega, America's First Gold Rush
- Oglethorpe's Experiment, The Colony That Was Not Supposed to Have Slaves
- Peaches, Peanuts, and Vidalia Onions, Georgia's Agricultural Identity
- Reconstruction, Redemption, and Jim Crow
- Removal, Worcester v. Georgia and the Trail of Tears
- Sherman's March, Total War Comes to Georgia
- The Civil Rights Movement at State Scale
- The First Nations, Creek, Cherokee, and the World Before Georgia
- The Gullah Geechee Coast, A Culture That Survived Everything
- The Shape of Georgia, Fall Line, Mountains, and Coast
Near Augusta
- Academy of Richmond County
- Augusta National: Azaleas and a Long History of Exclusion
- Broad Street and the Long Arc of Downtown
- Capital City, Three Times Over
- James Brown: Hardship on Twiggs Street
- Lucy Craft Laney: The Educator Who Built a College in a Church Basement
- May Eleventh, Nineteen Seventy: Six Men Shot in the Back
- Paine College: A Biracial Experiment in Eighteen Eighty-Two
- Sacred Heart: Ninety-Four Windows from Munich
- Springfield Baptist: The Oldest Black Congregation in America
- The Arsenal That Started a War's Supply Chain
- The Augusta Canal: The South's First Industrial District
- The Confederate Powderworks: Two Miles of Smoke and War
- The Cotton Exchange: Four Hundred Thousand Bales a Year
- The Fall Line: Where Rivers Meet the Ancient Sea
- Ty Cobb and the Summerville House
- Woodrow Wilson's First Memory Was a Man Saying War Was Coming
Near Columbus
Near Helen
- Brasstown Bald and the Cherokee Country Above It
- Cherokee Heartland: The Nacoochee Valley Before Helen
- Dahlonega Mint: Gold Coins from Cherokee Land
- Helen, Georgia: The Bavarian Village That Never Existed
- Nine Months to Bavaria: John Kollock's Sketch Changes Everything
- Oktoberfest Comes to Georgia
- Tallulah Falls School
- The Chattahoochee: Georgia's Famous River Begins Here
- The First Gold Rush: Dukes Creek and the Race That Preceded California
- The Star of the North: Helen's Lumber Town Origins
- The Unicoi Turnpike: A Thousand-Year-Old Road Under a Bavarian Village
- Vogel State Park: Depression-Era CCC in the Blue Ridge
Near Macon
- Capricorn Records and the Birth of Southern Rock
- Cotton, River, and Rails
- First in the World
- Hillcrest Avenue, October Twenty-Ninth
- Little Richard Penniman of Pleasant Hill
- Macon's Grand Opera House: Horses, Chaplin, and the South's Biggest Stage
- Nu-Way Weiners: America's Second-Oldest Hot Dog Chain
- Otis Redding and the Roxy
- Pleasant Hill and the Interstate
- Robins and the Arsenal of Democracy
- Sidney Lanier, Flute and Fever
- The Allman Brothers, Mama Louise, and Rose Hill
- The Big House on Vineville
- The Confederate Arsenal and Wilson's Raid
- The First People of the Ocmulgee
- The Georgia Music Hall of Fame: Fifteen Years of Fame, Now in a Vault
- The Hay House, Macon
- The House That Honeymoon Built
- The Judge Who Ordered Georgia to Integrate
- The Removal
- The Tubman Museum: The Southeast's Largest African American Museum
- Three Hundred Thousand Trees
Near St. Simons Island
- Ahmaud Arbery: A Murder That America Watched Twice
- Darien, Georgia: Scottish Highlanders and the Town That Burned
- Fort Frederica and General Oglethorpe
- Fort King George: Britain's First Georgia Outpost
- Gullah Geechee Culture
- Igbo Landing at Dunbar Creek
- Sapelo Island: The Last Gullah Stronghold
- Sea Island Cotton and the Plantation Coast
- The Battle of Bloody Marsh
- The Guale People and the Spanish Mission
- The Marshes of Glynn
- The Wesley Brothers at Frederica
Near Tybee Island
- Bonaventure Cemetery and Midnight in the Garden
- Cantonment Oglethorpe
- Forsyth Park
- Garden City: Where Savannah's Industrial Port Was Born
- Georgia State Railroad Museum
- Juliette Gordon Low and the First Meeting
- Roger Lacy and the Georgia Colony
- Savannah 1733: The Grid That Still Works
- Savannah: The City That Sherman Gave Away as a Christmas Gift
- Savannah's Confederate Monument: Built to Reject Reconstruction
- Savannah's Gingerbread House: A German Immigrant's Victorian Masterpiece
- SCAD Museum of Art: Inside the Nation's Last Antebellum Railroad Headquarters
- Sherman's Christmas Gift and the Broken Promise
- The Nation's Only Surviving Antebellum Railroad Complex
- The Senegambian Rice Connection: Who Knew How to Grow It
Along the way
- Acworth, Georgia
- Adairsville, Georgia
- Albany, Georgia: The Movement That Taught the Movement How to Lose
- Allatoona Pass: Hold On, We Are Coming
- Americus: Koinonia, Habitat, and the Shadow of Andersonville
- An Unknown Soldier of Allatoona Pass
- Andalusia: Where Flannery O'Connor Wrote Among the Peacocks
- Andrew Young: From SCLC to the United Nations to Atlanta City Hall
- Athens' Traveling Covered Bridge
- Atlanta Motor Speedway: Mud, Speed, and Second Chances
- Atlanta's Burns Cottage Replica
- Atlanta's HBCU Cluster: The Movement's Intellectual Infrastructure
- Atlanta's Oldest Church: Saved from Sherman's Torch
- Auburn Avenue and the World King Was Born Into
- Auburn Avenue: Where King Was Born
- Baldwin County: Georgia's Antebellum Capital
- Bellevue: Benjamin Hill's Greek Temple on the Georgia Piedmont
- Bonar Hall: Cotton Money, Thick Walls, and a Half-Sister's War
- Bradwell Institute: Where the South Got a School
- Braselton: Road Atlanta and the Panoz Racing Empire
- Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum
- Bremen, Georgia
- Brookwood Hills: Atlanta's First Planned Streetcar Suburb
- Burke County, Georgia
- Cabbagetown: Atlanta's Mill Village
- Callaway Gardens: Cotton Rows to Butterfly Wings
- Carnesville: Named for a Revolutionary Soldier-Lawyer
- Cartersville: The Town Named as a Joke
- Center for Puppetry Arts
- Commerce, Georgia: From Harmony Grove to King Cotton
- Confederate Prison Camp — Blackshear, Georgia
- Conyers, Georgia
- Covington: Georgia's Hollywood Stand-In
- Crawfordville: Home of the Confederacy's Vice President
- Creek and Cherokee Removal: The Land Under Atlanta
- Dalton: How a Teenager's Bedspread Changed America
- Delta Flight Museum: From Crop Dusters to Continents
- Delta Flight Museum: From Crop Dusters to Global Giant
- Doraville: Nine and a Half Million Cars
- Dorchester Academy
- Druid Hills Historic District, Atlanta
- Ella Baker and the Organization That Wouldn't Be Led
- Emerson, Georgia
- Ezra Church: The Third Blow in Five Days
- Fairburn: The Town That Said Yes to the Railroad
- Fort Gillem , Atlanta's Army Post
- Fort Tyler: The Last Fort to Fall
- Gainesville Solar Walk: The Sun
- Georgia Southern University
- Gravity Research Foundation Monument
- Greensboro, Georgia
- Greenwood Plantation
- Gwinnett County and the Rarest Signature in America
- Hank Aaron and the Filing Cabinet Full of Death Threats
- Hapeville, Georgia
- Hapeville: Where Delta Was Born
- Hartsfield-Jackson: The World's Busiest Airport
- Hogansville: The Planter Who Gave Away His Land
- Hoschton Train Depot
- Hosea Williams: The Organizer Who Did Not Become a Monument
- Jesup Station, Georgia
- Joseph Henry Lumpkin House: Georgia's First Chief Justice
- Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman's Frontal Assault
- Kennesaw State University: From Cornfield to Campus
- Kennesaw: Big Shanty, the Great Locomotive Chase, and a Gun Law
- King at Riverside: The Speech That Cost Him the Liberal Establishment
- Kingsland, Georgia: Railroad Town at the Florida Line
- LaGrange: The Callaway Kingdom and Its Reckoning
- Laurens County: Dublin on the Oconee
- Lavonia: The Smallest Carnegie Library Town
- Liberty Hall: Home of the Confederate Vice President
- Lithonia, Georgia
- Lovejoy's Station: The Last Stand Below Atlanta
- Madison: The Town Sherman Refused to Burn
- Margaret Mitchell and the Architecture of the Lost Cause
- Marietta: Railroad Town, Resort, Battlefield
- Martin Luther King Jr. Met Coretta in Boston
- Maynard Jackson: The First Black Mayor of a Major Southern City
- Metter: How a Sawmill Town Became a County Seat
- Midway, Georgia: The Puritan Town That Shaped a Revolution
- Mitchell County: Wiregrass Cotton and the Peanut Belt
- Morehouse College: The House That Made Men
- Moreland: Two Writers, One Small Town
- Morgan County: The Town Sherman Refused to Burn
- Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- New Echota: Where the Cherokee Nation Ended
- Newnan: The Hospital City of the Confederacy
- Norcross: Atlanta's First Resort Escape
- Oxford College of Emory: The Campus That Survived Sherman
- Oxford, Georgia, Emory's Original Home
- Peachtree City: Creek Homeland to Golf-Cart Suburb
- Peachtree Creek: Hood's First Blow
- Pooler: Sherman Slept Here, Then a Suburb Exploded
- Porterdale, Georgia, Cotton Rope Capital
- Position of the Union Monitors, Fort McAllister
- Putnam County: Eatonton and the Birthplace of Alice Walker
- Resaca, Georgia
- Resaca: The Atlanta Campaign Begins in Earnest
- Rhodes Hall: Atlanta's Confederate Dream in Granite
- Rhodes Hall: The Dream on Peachtree
- Richmond Hill, Georgia: Henry Ford's Winter Kingdom
- Rutledge, Georgia: Where the Railroad Turned Around
- Sandy Springs: Creek Nation Springs to Land Lottery to Atlanta Suburb
- Savannah-Ogeechee Canal
- Six Flags Over Georgia: The Park That Named a Chain
- Slabtown, Atlanta
- Social Circle, Georgia
- Social Circle, Georgia — How a Town Got Its Name
- Springer Mountain: Where the Appalachian Trail Begins
- Stacey Abrams and the Voting Rights Fight That Followed Bloody Sunday
- Statesboro, Georgia
- Stone Mountain and the Second Founding of the Klan
- Sweet Auburn: The Richest Negro Street in the World
- Sweet Auburn: The Wealthiest Black Street in America
- Temple, Georgia
- The Atlanta Campaign: Four Months That Saved Lincoln
- The Atlanta Campaign: One Hundred Days That Changed the War
- The Atlanta Child Murders: Twenty-Nine Victims and Open Questions
- The Atlanta Compromise and the Du Bois Rebuttal
- The Atlanta Cyclorama: A Painting the Size of a Building
- The Big Chicken
- The Chapel Bell of the University of Georgia
- The Coca-Cola Origin: A Confederate Veteran's Morphine Problem
- The Foxfire Project: High School Students Who Saved a Dying Culture
- The General: America's Most Famous Train Robbery
- The Great Locomotive Chase
- The High: Atlanta's Art Museum, Born from a Ten-Dollar Gift
- The Nineteen Ninety-Six Centennial Park Bombing and Richard Jewell
- The Nineteen Oh Six Atlanta Race Massacre
- The Savannah-Ogeechee Canal
- The Temple Bombing: Atlanta's Night of Dynamite
- The Temple Bombing: When Atlanta Chose a Side
- The Texas: The Engine That Chased the General
- Thomson, Georgia
- Tifton: The Sawmill Town That Became the Plant Center of the World
- Troupville, Killed by the Railroad
- Truist Park and the Atlanta Braves
- Tunnel Hill, Georgia
- Valdosta State: From Normal School to University
- Villa Rica: Georgia's First Gold Town
- Vinings, Georgia
- Waco, Georgia
- Waycross Post Office and Courthouse
- West Point: From Textile Capital to Kia Country
- Woodbine, Georgia: Camden County's Courthouse Town