Top 10 Places

10. Augusta Canal National Heritage Area

9. Fort Frederica National Monument

8. Civil War sites

- - Andersonville National Historic Site
  - Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
    - 15th Ohio Infantry marker (my great-great-great-grandfather Private Perry Hatch was in Co. D)
  - Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

7. Dahlonega and the Dahlonega Gold Museum State Historic Site, plus the nearby Tallulah Gorge State Park

6. Springer Mountain (southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail; with Amicalola Falls State Park the starting point for the access trail) and Chattahoochee National Forest

5. Cumberland Island National Seashore and Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge

4. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

3. Atlanta: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park and Georgia State Capitol (plus, nearby:)

- - Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (NPS)
  - Covington (small town gem) – filming location for In the Heat of the Night (TV Series)
  - Juliette – filming location of Whistlestop for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes

2. Okefenokee Swamp – World Heritage Tentative List: Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and Stephen C. Foster State Park

1. Savannah (see also, under South Carolina, the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor – also shared with North Carolina and Florida) and Fort Pulaski National Monument

State Info

A) State Nicknames+

- - The Peach State
  - Empire State of the South
  - The Goober State (peanuts)

B) Just for Fun

- - Dade County and Cloudland Canyon State Park

C) Presidential Site

- - Jimmy Carter National Historic Site

D) Honorable Mention

- - Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area

E) Iconic Foods

- - Chicken Biscuits
  - Brunswick Stew
  - Boiled Peanuts
  - Vidalia Onions
  - Peach Cobbler
  - Pralines
  - Coca-Cola
  - Sweet Tea