Andree Ruellan, a New York native of French descent, was a prominent artist of the twentieth century. Although she worked primarily in New York and Europe during her long career, Ruellan’s frequent trips to the South, including to Savannah, provided her with rich source material. Her mural Spring in Georgia was installed at the post office in Lawrenceville in 1942 and is housed today at the R. G. Stephens Federal Building in Athens.

Athens Technical College is located in Athens, the seat of Clarke County, northeast Georgia’s center for commerce and trade, health services, and cultural arts. Three off-campus facilities in Elberton (Elbert County), Greensboro (Greene County), and Monroe (Walton County) offer additional courses and programming through Athens Tech. As of 2006 Athens Regional Medical Center, Ty Cobb Healthcare System ( Hart County), and Minnie G. Boswell Memorial Hospital (Greene County) are among the largest employers in the college’s service delivery area, which, in addition to Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Hart, and Walton counties, also includes Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, and Wilkes counties.

Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium (known as Atlanta Stadium from 1966 to 1975) lured major league sports to the Deep South. In early 1964 the National League Milwaukee Braves baseball team agreed verbally to move to Atlanta if a stadium were finished in time for the 1966 season. That October, with construction of the ballpark under way, the Braves officially committed to make Atlanta their home, signing a twenty-five-year lease to play at the stadium.

The Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta, pictured circa 1935, opened in 1921 and closed in 1959. It was the city's first public library branch for African Americans. Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System 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.

Banning Mill is located in southeastern Carroll County on the banks of Snake Creek, an arm of the Chattahoochee River. When it closed in 1971, the mill, which opened in the decade of the 1840s, had been in existence longer than any other regional mill and had served as both employer and home to generations of area residents. The four Bowen brothers first operated the mill on land that they acquired in one of Georgia’s land lotteries.