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SECLUDED, MODERN campsites are available in every section of the state, such as this one in
Stone Mountain Park.
As the trend to family camping began to develop, Georgia planners sort of caught the
back-to-nature fever, too, and the outdoor lover is the beneficiary.
Convenient camping facili
ties are to be found from the
mountains of North Georgia
to the sands of the Golden
Isles, and more campsites are
being developed every day.
Facilities are developing in
four general areas — state
parks, national forests, gov
ernment and utility reservoirs
and on private property.
Twenty-seven of Georgia’s
state parks have campsites,
ranging in size from 10 to
175 sites per park, with more
scheduled for construction.
In addition, 18 parks have
trailer facilities. Rates are
bargain basement, running
from as low as $1 per night,
dependent upon the facilities
available.
In addition, the state’s two
national forests — the Chat
tahoochee (a Creek Indian
word meaning “painted
stone”) which sprawls across
681,000 acres of mountains
and forests in the northern
part of the state, and Oconee
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Near Chattanooga, Tenn.
(Within sight of Interstates 75 and 24) C—>
in the middle of the state—
have a wealth of camping fa
cilities. The Chattahoochee
has 25. Fees are charged at
some of the national forest
campsites, others are free.
Additional campsites are
found on the sprawling man
made lakes created on the
Chattahoochee and Savannah
rivers. On the Clark Hill Res
ervoir on the Savannah you’ll
find 10 camping areas and
there are six camp ground
areas on Lake Sidney Lanier
on the Chattahoochee. Lake
Lanier is the most popular
reservoir area in the nation
according to statistics on visi
tations kept by the U. S.
Corps of Engineers.
Stone Mountain, one of the
South’s newest Parks, offers
extraordinary camping ad
vantages. Campsites, located
along a 446 acre lake, offer
running water, electrical out
lets, barbecue grills, and each
is within 300 feet of hot
showers and rest rooms. A
beach is available for the use
of campers. Rates per night
are $1.50 without electricity,
$2 with it. Weeklong campers
pay for six nights, get the 7th
nigh, free. The Park is open
year-round.
Equally interesting is an
entirely different locale is the
Jekyll Island campground,
also privately operated on
state owned land. You camp
on the island that was a mil
lionaire’s hideaway for half a
century.
Shades of J. P. Morgan,
the Astors and their brethren!
Georgia purchased Jekyll
after World War II and con
verted it into a public recrea
tional area. The campground
is located at one end of the
island, handy to the gleaming
white beaches. Rates are
$2.80 a night for tents and
camping trailers, including
electricity.
Outdoor lovers will discov
er easy - to - reach campsites
wherever they meander
through the Peach State.
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WEEK
OCT. 8-14, 1967
Historic Homes
Reflect Fascinating
Heritage gs Georgia
the 13 th Colony^
By Adelaide Ponder
Editor, The Madisonian, Madison
From the beginning, much
of the architecture in Georgia
was distinctive. The early set
tlers, largely men of hearty
English and Scotch-Irish
stock, carefully planned their
towns and their plantations,
laying them out with the pre
cise, geometric regularity that
characterized the colonial
period in Georgia. They built
houses that reflected their
British backgrounds, hewn
from sturdy oaks, pine and
cypress woods. Brick and
tabby were also used as build
ing materials, especially in
the coastal areas. These were
good houses, built to last
many generations.
The great body of existing
architecture that survived,
dates from the Early Federal
period which began about
1790. The latter part of the
eighteenth century and the
early part of the nineteenth
was a golden era for Georgia
architecture. Merchants and
planters prospered from the
rich fruit of the land and they
used their wealth and their
culture to build fine houses
and to decorate them with
furniture made by highly
skilled craftsmen and with
art treasures from all over the
world.
Georgia’s port city, Savan
nah, and the Piedmont sec
tion of mid-Georgia reflects
most vividly the rich archi
tectural heritage of the Geor
gian, Federal, and Greek Re
vival periods and offers no
table examples of historic
preservation.
Savannah, settled in 1733
by James Oglethorpe, sets
the pace and must be placed
in a category by herself. Dis
tinctive for its many fine
THE TEXAS is one of two steam trains at Six Flags Over Georgia,
vast recreation park, minutes from downtown Atlanta.
dwellings, Savannah has made
tremendous strides in restor
ing crumbling buildings of
bygone years to stately beau
ty. A large part of the down
town area has been beautiful
ly renovated. Recognition of
the work came recently when
the historical part of Savan
nah was designated by the
Department of the Interior as
a National Historic District.
The Georgian and Federal
periods — when such dis
tinguished architects as Wil
liam Jay and Charles Clusky
lived in Georgia — are ex
emplified in many fine homes
in Savannah, rare architec
tural gems representative of
the immense talent of these
men.
Between the mountains
and the plains, in the pied
mont, famous for its classical
Greek Revival monuments,
lie towns like Athens, Mil
ledgeville, Madison, Wash
ington, Roswell, Covington,
Greensboro and Augusta,
with the great old houses
resting peacefully behind the
tall shade trees. A sense of
history by the townspeople is
evidenced from the number
of old homes still standing.
As a result of the dedicated
interest of Georgia’s more
thoughtful citizens, a num
ber of outstanding houses
have been bought by historic
foundations, restored and
opened to the public. Historic
Savannah Foundation, Inc.,
the Georgia Historical Com
mission, and other smaller
foundations, have performed
a remarkable service in arous
ing a new awareness and ap
preciation of the good taste
and excellence of design that
prevailed in much of early
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