Georgia history, scenic attractions and Southern lifestyles

 

Welcome to Georgia Backroads magazine, a premier source for information on Georgia history, nature, travel ideas and genealogy. If you're interested in Georgia history, our natural environment, travel, or if you simply enjoy excellent writing and superb photography (with a minimum of advertising), you will love Georgia Backroads.  We're glad you're here and hope you'll enjoy browsing through samples of our articles.  Georgia Backroads - Everything Georgia!

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Winter 2009Winter 2009
• Vanishing Georgia:  Small Town Life - Elberton
• 1900 Camp Creek Train Wreck
• Georgia's Genius Architect Charles E. Choate
• Haunted Surrency House
• Genuine Georgia Backroads: Camellias and Countryside
• Searching for Swamp Bats
• The Year of the Atlanta Chiefs
• First Descent into Pettyjohn Cave
 
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 Recent Issues

Autumn 2009Autumn 2009
• Vanishing Georgia:  The Old Family Farm
• Ohoopee River Voyage
• Georgia's Ten Best Novels
• Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff
• Lam Hardman Farm
Summer 2009Summer 2009
• Vanishing Georgia:  Children of the Loom
• The Titanic Disaster: Affects a Small Town
• Monroe Girls D & B Corps
• Monster Mud Snake
Spring 2009 Spring 2009
• Vanishing Georgia: Lathemtown
• Nathan Bedford Forrest's Teenaged Warriors
• Gambler Henry Byrom
• Bill Arp's Uncivil War
• Great Yazoo Land Fraud

 

Winter 2008 Winter 2008
• Small Town Life
• Georgia Before Columbus
• Dr. Leila Denmark
• True Frogs of Georgia
• Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation
• New Deal Art
Autumn 2008 Autumn 2008
• Vanishing Georgia:  Tenants of the Almighty
• Georgia's Border Wars
• Civil War Ironclads
• Federal Army Besieges Atlanta
• Sweet Grass Dairy
Summer 2008 Summer 2008
• Georgia's WWII Airfields
• The Altamaha River
• Okenfenokee Queen
• Mysterious Silver Crosses
• Rebel Lion Robert Toombs

 

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 Our Books

 Traced in Fire, Written in Blood is a brand-new book featuring stories of both famous and forgotten Georgians in the Civil War.  This Journal of Georgia Civil War History includes detailed accounts of notable Georgians like Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens, along with little-known but riveting stories of the foot soldiers who served their state and country with steadfast determination.  You'll read about:
• a young Georgian who led his regiment into battle only to be court-martialed and dismissed from the Confederate Army;
• the one-legged veteran who defended his town when nobody else would;
• the Georgia belle who caught General Sherman's eye, and twenty years later, stayed his hand in war;
• and the loyal and principled former Confederate officer who met with President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC to discuss Georgia withdrawing from the Confederacy.

Traced with Fire, Written in Blood is a 6" by 9" hardback book of more than 200 pages featuring more than 150 photographs, many never before published in book form.  $26.95
 

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Sample Articles

Rebel Lion at Burnside's BridgeRebel Lion at Burnside's Bridge
• Outnumberd nearly 35 to 1 and led by a politically-appointed general with little military experience, the Southerners defending a key bridge over Antietam Creek didn't stand a chance...but this would be the hour of destiny for Toombs' Georgia Brigade.
Children of the LoomVanishing Georgia - Children of the Loom
• A century ago, photographer Lewis Wickes Hine traveled the state and captured images that showed America what child labor really meant in cotton mill towns like Rome, Augusta, and Macon.
Altamaha RiverGeorgia's Little Amazon - The Wild & Beautiful Altamaha River
• The wild and beautiful Altamaha River weaves a tapestry rich in natural and human history as it  meanders to the Georgia coast.