Georgia  drivers, car owners, mechanics, and speedways have long played an important role in the establishment, development, and growing popularity of the National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) sport. Many observers consider Dawsonville one of the birthplaces of NASCAR. Indeed, several of the most popular and influential individuals in the early history of southern stock car racing came from this north Georgia town. Although he seldom drove in races, Raymond Parks, a native of Dawson County and a prominent Atlanta liquor-store owner, financed operations for a number of the most important early racers.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a nonprofit agency based in Washington, D.C., and chaired by former U.S. senator Sam Nunn and CNN founder Ted Turner, two influential Georgians. The agency’s mission is to reduce the threat from all weapons of mass destruction, including biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Formed in 2001, NTI helps finance twenty think tanks around the world. Ted Turner pledged $250 million to fund the NTI, which also accepts personal and corporate contributions.

Located in downtown Watkinsville, the Oconee County Courthouse was completed in 1939. Designed in the stripped classical style, the building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration. Courtesy of Don Bowman The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

Philip Trammell Shutze’s career as a designer emerged directly from the Atlanta architectural firm of Hentz, Reid, and Adler in Italianate and Georgian revival works of the mid-1920s. His broad training in architecture at the Georgia School of Technology, now Georgia Institute of Technology (1908-12), Columbia University in New York City (1912-13), and after he won the Rome Prize, the American Academy in Rome, Italy (1915-17, 1919-20), was punctuated by periodic experience as a draftsman for Neel Reid.

Slate folds, which formed during the mountain-building events of the Paleozoic Era, are visible around Rockmart in the Valley and Ridge geologic province of northwest Georgia. Photograph by Pamela J. W. Gore The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.