How five Northeast Georgia counties got their names, all explained in just under ten minutes- before 'Freebird' runs out.  We discuss who Elbert, Lumpkin, Forsyth, and Towns county were named after, and find one county in Georgia that was named after the ugliest man in England. 

Millions of counterfeit greybacks flooded the South at the start of the Civil War, causing economic mayhem.  The cause of these fakes did business out of a little stationary shop in Philadelphia, advertised in the local paper, and never once feared the law.  

James Longstreet had a long and impressing military career, including being called General Lee's 'Old War Horse".  After the war, however, criticism of his personal politics and his conduct during Gettysburg would cause some to think of him as a traitor to the Southern cause. 

This week, the career of a Gainesville resident who rests in Alta Vista Cemetery.

The Declaration of Independence as it might have been written today.  This was published by an organization called The Pacific Legal Foundation in an effort to help people understand the rights we were asserting, and were willing to die for, on July Fourth.

In 1921 the writer H.L. Mencken published the Declaration of Independence in what he called 'American'.  It wasn't the King's English, or the Queen's either.  

It seems like a good idea- power an airplane with a small nuclear reactor so it can stay aloft indefinitely.  The one problem the engineers in the Dawsonville Forest facility faced- how do you do it?

From fifth grade history onward you need to know one fact: Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.  If he didn't invent it, he did take the credit for it.  Whitney and others revolutionize the production of cotton fabric in this extra episode.

In 1913 Atlanta Leo Frank was tried for the brutal murder of Mary Phagan.  What would follow would be the most notorious trial in Southern history. 

I don't know why the original posting had no sound, but here is the episode again.

We start series three with a tour of Towns and Union Counties.  The story of Hiawassee, some mountains with gory names, and track rock!

He rode for nearly twenty-four hours to warn the people of the approaching British, and his accomplishment was commemorated in an epic poem.  It was the ride of - Jimmy Blair.  Did you expect someone else?  Hear another voice announce 'The British are Coming' as we discuss the namesake of Blairsville in Union County.