Georgia Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

by William Schemmel

Overview

The definitive collection of Georgia's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Georgia residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762767502
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/11/2011
Series:	Curiosities Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	784,504
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

William Schemmel is a writer and photographer whose other books for Globe Pequot Press include Georgia Off the Beaten Path and Insiders’ Guide to Atlanta, 8th Edition. 

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9 THE OLD GAOL, Greensboro's Bastille
If Greene Countians ever decided to reenact the French Revolution, they could start by sacking the Greensboro "Gaol." Whether it was really modeled after the notorious Parisian Bastille, as some declare, the fortress is one scary-looking place. Completed in 1807, its grim granite walls two-feet thick, with small barred windows and a crenelated roof line, were intended to warn citizens to stay on the straight and narrow. Those who faltered were imprisoned in medieval dungeons wet, dark and cold. Those paying the ultimate price for their sins were dropped, with a noose around their necks, through a second floor trap door. With no civil libertarians to adjudicate for comfier facilities, poor wretches moldered in the gloomy garrison until 1895. The Old Gaol is on East Greene Street, behind the courthouse. If you'd like to serve a brief sentence, call 706-453-7592 for an appointment.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	viii
	Northeast Georgia	1
	Southwest Georgia	55
	Metro Atlanta	103
	Middle Georgia	139
	Northwest Georgia	175
	Southeast Georgia	201
	Coastal Georgia	227
	Index	251