Interesting Facts about Georgia

• Rivalry between Indian tribes did not always lead to war. Some disputes between Cherokee and Creek groups were settled by a ball game.
• In the 1740s, Mary Jones was the skillful and successful captain of Fort Wimberley during a Spanish attack.
• Polio victim Franklin D. Roosevelt often visited and enjoyed the waters of Warm Springs. That small community gained world fame when he became president.
• The sculpture created by Gutzon Borglum on the side of Stone Mountain was so grand that Borglum once hosted 20 guests at breakfast on the shoulder of the Robert E. Lee carving. The work was later destroyed to make way for a smaller monument.
• One of the famed incidents of the Civil War was later known as "the Great Locomotive Chase," when Confederate forces pursued and retook a captured locomotive.