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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!

Current Issue (Available until late November)

Autumn 2010                 Autumn 2010
• Vanishing Georgia:  Irwinville Farms
• Kidnap!  Hero or Villain?
• Moonshine King
• Pea Patch Murders
• Wormsloe Plantation
• Pasaquan - There's Nothing Like It
• Swimming with River Turtles
• The Day the Sheriff Shot His Deputy
• Historic Barnesville House
• Lakeland's Murals and Motorcade
• Covering Dixie Like...Persimmons?
• Firefly Memories

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Recent Issues 

Summer 2010 CoverSummer 2010
• Vanishing Georgia:  Homer
• Judge Cone v. Alex Stephens
• Victorian Murderess
• Milledgeville Asylum
• Drowning Bear Mysteries

• Life of Alton Stitcher
Spring 2010Spring 2010
• The Old Dirt Road
• The Last Rebel:  Savannah's
  Charles A. Lamar

• Andrew Jackson's Dilemma
• Night of Blood & Thunder:  Taking of the USS Water Witch
Winter 2009Winter 2009
• Vanishing Georgia:  Elberton
• 1900 Train Wreck 
• Haunted Surrency House
• Swamp Bats
• The Atlanta Chiefs
• Pettyjohn Cave

 

Summer 2009Autumn 2009
• Vanishing Georgia: 
  Old Famliy Farm

• Ohoopee River Voyage
• Georgia's 10 Best 
   Novels

• Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff
• Lam Hardman Farm
   
 
 
 
 
Summer2009 Summer 2009
• Children of the Loom
• The Titanic Disaster
   Affects a Small Town

• Monroe Girls Drum
   & Bugle Corps

• Monster Mud Snake
Spring 2009 Spring 2009
• Small Town Life - Lathemtown
• Nathan Bedford Forest's
   Teenaged Warriors

• Gambler Henry Byrom
• Bill Arp's Uncivil War
• Great Yazoo Land Fraud
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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;
• A loyal and principled Confederate officer who met with President Abraham Lincoln 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

Murder on the Dover BridgeMurder on the Dover Bridge
Murder was on the mind of young Elliot Padrick when he arranged to meet his wife and mother-in-law at the depot in Clito, Georgia.
Children of the LoomVanishing Georgia - Children of the Loom
• A century ago, Lewis Wickes Hine traveled the state and captured images that showed America what child labor really meant in
Georgia's cottom mill towns.
Altamaha RiverRuby's Boys & Mamie Lee at the Piano
• The author's recent recovery of piano recordings made in the 1940s evokes strong memories of his small-town boyhood.
Click to hear:
Author playing Bach's Minuet in G
Eddie Tillman playing Little White Donkey
Aunt Mami Lee playing Unknown Selection