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Name: Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park
Brand: Tennyson Dickinson
SKU: 9781467162555
Price: 18.74 USD
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Sherman’s March to the Sea left behind a smoldering Atlanta and a haunted Savannah, but Georgia history often follows reckonings with stories of resilience. Tour the legacy of a home worth rebuilding with a midnight train from Cumberland Island over to Macon. Take advantage of the unobstructed vistas of Rock City in the North Georgia mountains or the panorama offered by a Delta window seat. Pop open a Stuckey’s Pecan Log Roll and peruse our catalogue of Georgia history books. [View all Georgia books]

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Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park

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Stone Mountain Park

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Six Flags Over Georgia

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Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park

9781467162555

$24.99 $18.74 Save 25%

Lake Winnepesaukah has played an important role in the region’s history for centuries.

The lake was constructed by the Indigenous peoples, who built a narrow earthen dam at the head of several hundred springs, creating the six-acre lake. It later became a gristmill used by area farmers for grinding corn into meal. During the Civil War, the lake was contended for and subsequently became the campground for the Union army. It later became a hunting reserve until it was bought by Carl and Minette Dixon in 1924. Their vision, combined with hard work and a sense of play—the same for three succeeding generations—brought the land and the lake to be a setting for the premier family-owned amusement park and water park it is today.

Stone Mountain Park

9780738568232

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For centuries, explorers and pioneers told of a place in Georgia where there was a gigantic mountain of solid granite resembling "a great gray egg lying half-buried on a vast plain." In time, Stone Mountain, 15 miles east of Atlanta, became a local landmark. In 1915, it was decided that the mountain's sheer north face would be a good spot to carve a lasting memorial to the lost cause of the Confederacy. This proved to be easier said than done. Before the project was completed, one of Georgia's top tourist attractions was established around Stone Mountain's base.

Six Flags Over Georgia

9780738543581

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When Six Flags Over Georgia opened in June 1967, it became the first theme park in the Southeast. Although the park is best known today for its high-speed roller coasters, this book recaptures its earlier years when it was devoted to the various periods of Georgia's history. Six Flags Over Georgia revisits such classic rides and attractions as the Log Jamboree, Tales of the Okefenokee, Jean Ribaut's
Adventure, the Krofft Puppet Theater, the Happy Motoring Freeway, and many others. It also explores how the park's focus changed and expanded over the decades and takes a look at some of its classic advertising and souvenirs.