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U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Moultrian U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss is Georgia's senior senator
and Georgia Trend's Man of the Year 2008. He's chaired the Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and currently is
ranking member. He also sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee,
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee
on Rules and Administration.
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Country Music Hall of Famer Boudleaux Bryant
Country Music Hall of Famer Boudleaux Bryant was from Moultrie.
The late Bryant, "The Fastest Guitar in the Country," and
his wife Felice together penned wildly popular classics among them
"Rocky Top" first sung by Osborne Brothers and now the University
of Tennessee fight song, Roy Orbison’s “Love Hurts,”
later taken international by the rock group Nazareth in 1976 and a
string of Everly Brothers hits "Bye, Bye Love," "All
I Have to Do Is Dream," "Take a Message to Mary," "Sleepless
Nights" and "Wake Up, Little Susie." As a matter of
fact, "Little Susie" is Bryant's niece and is from Moultrie
too. Her full name is now Dr. Susie Walker Johnson, and she lives
in Huntington Woods, Michigan.
The Bryants also wrote songs for Buddy Holly, Little Jimmy Dickens,
Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Simon and Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Bob
Dylan, Dean Martin, Carl Smith, Tony Bennett, Sonny James, Eddy Arnold,
Charley Pride, Jim Reeves, Leo Sayer, Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie.
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Apollo Astronaut Charles M. Duke
Charles M. Duke, a lunar-module pilot for the Apollo 16 space
mission and the 10th and youngest man to walk on the moon, received
his first flight training at Spence Air Base in Moultrie, now known
as Spence Field.
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Moose Moss Aquatic Center
Home of Flying Tiger Moose Moss and the Moose Moss Aquatic
Center, an Olympic-caliber diving well that regularly hosts local,
state, national and international diving meets, and the Diving Tigers,
named in homage to the Flying Tigers, famed squadron of American volunteer
pilots who staunched the Japanese invasion of China in 1941. Moultrie's
Moss Aquatic Center hosted six countries in 1996 as a training site
for the Altanta Olympics.
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Prettiest Courthouse in Georgia
The Colquitt County Courthouse has been voted the "Prettiest
Courthouse in Georgia." The 1902 Neoclassical Revival courthouse
stands in the center of Moultrie's town square and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
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Riverside: A city within a city
Riverside is a city within a city. Riverside occupies .2 square
miles (one of the smallest towns in Georgia) and is completely surrounded
by Moultrie. With a population of about 60, Riverside is unique for
several reasons. Riverside was incorporated in 1907 and is the home
of international uniform manufacturer Riverside Manufacturing Company,
one of the largest employers in Colquitt County.
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Pro baseball pitcher Dennis Powell
Norman Park was home to professional baseball pitcher Dennis
Powell. During his career in the 1980s and 1990s, Powell, a left-handed
pitcher, played for Los Angeles Dodgers and the Seattle Mariners.
He signed as a free agent with the Milwaukee Brewers, the Baltimore
Orioles and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Plus, he pitched for professional
teams in Japan and Mexico.
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UGA Archway Partnership Program
Pilot location for the University of Georgia Archway Partnership
Program, a growing economic development outreach program. The Archway
Program now serves several counties on top of Colquitt County with
a definitive plan for more.
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Virgil Seay, NFL receiver
Home of Virgil Seay, NFL Super Bowl XVII Champion. In the early
1980s, Seay was a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins and later
the Atlanta Falcons. He played in the Super Bowl for the Redskins
in their victory over the AFC Miami Dolphins.
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Dewey Scarboro, Georgia Tech
Home of Dewey Scarboro, record holder for the longest kickoff
return for a touchdown at Georgia Tech. In 1919, the last year at
Tech for infamous head coach John Heisman, Scarboro returned a kickoff
102 yards for a touchdown.
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UGA Government Historical Tourism
Pilot location for the University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute
of Government's Historical Tourism Initiative.
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2008 County Excellence Competition Winner
Colquitt County was recognized as 1 of 7 winners of the 2008
County Excellence competition sponsored by the Association County
Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) and Georgia Trend magazine.
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All-American Diver Lauryn McCalley
Home of 5-time All-American diver Lauryn McCalley, 2005 National
Collegiate Athletic Association Woman of the Year and one of GLAMOUR
Magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2004, among many other distinctions.
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Pro Tennis Player Lisa Spain Short
Home of Lisa Spain Short, professional tennis player from 1984-1987
and 2008 Southern Tennis Hall of Fame inductee. Sponsored by country
singer Kenny Rogers, Short won over top-10-ranked Sylvia Hanika at
Wimbeldon.
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Basketball's Carolyn Grantham Booth
Norman Park is home of Carolyn Grantham Booth, one of the All
American Red Heads, the female equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Booth played in the mid-1960s.
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Antonio Edwards, NFL Player
Home of Antonio Edwards, former American football defensive
end in the National Football League for the Seattle Seahawks, the
New York Giants, the Atlanta Falcons, the Carolina Panthers and the
Denver Broncos. Edwards ascended to Super Bowl XXXIII with the Falcons
in 1998 in which he returned a fumble for a touchdown. In 2000, Edwards
was the 12th pick of the XFL draft as a member of the Las Vegas Outlaws.
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William F. Duggan, Sr., Circus Owner
At Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church, an unusual gravemarker
of a baby elephant out of white marble stands with upraised trunk
on top of a pink marble base. It was carved in homage to circus owner
William F. Duggan, Sr. (1899-1950). Duggan bought the Hagen-Wallace
Circus in 1947, but died before his circus ever performed. The marker
is in the likeness of Duggan's favorite elephant Nancy. The gravemarker
is listed in the Art Inventories Catalog of the Smithsonian American
Art Museum.
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Syndicated columnist D. Walden
Home of award-winning, syndicated columnist Dwain Walden. "The
Red-Headed Editor" is known for his homespun wit, prolific writing
and publishing career and the ever-present cigar stub clenched in
his smiling teeth.
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Legendary coach/athlete Grant Gillis
Grant Gillis managed the Moultrie team in the Class D Georgia-Florida
League and coached football and baseball for the Packers. He led the
Packers to the state football championship in 1937. Gillis helped
Alabama win its first national championship over Washington at the
1926 Rose Bowl by throwing a touchdown pass to Johnny Mack Brown.
Brown went on to become one of Hollywood's top cowboy stars, while
Gillis later turned to baseball. He was an infielder for the Washington
Senators in 1927 and later played for the Boston Red Sox.
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Architect Wm. Frank McCall, Jr.
Moultrie architect the late Wm. Frank McCall, Jr. designed
some of the finest homes in Colquitt County as well as on Georgia's
Sea Island near Brunswick, Atlanta and other cities around the state.
His personal art collection reverently displayed in its own permanent
gallery within the Colquitt County Arts Center.
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1983 Georgia amateur golf champ Bob Windom
Home of 1983 Georgia amateur golf champion Bob Windom.
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Robert B. Wright Jr. House
The limestone facade of the historic Paramount Theatre (or
the Howard) in Atlanta now graces the front of Moultrie's most memorable
residences, the Robert B. Wright Jr. House. The magnificent home was
designed by Wm. Frank McCall Jr.
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Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library
The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library is internationally revered
as the premier source for researching Scottish heritage. It is home
to 120 or so Scottish clan information. This is a AAA-approved attraction,
containing private collections plus information on the development
of the U.S. eastern seaboard and migration routes west.
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Doerun Pitcher Plant Bog
The Doerun Pitcher Plant Bog is one of Georgia’s largest
remaining pitcher plant bogs, supporting several species of the trumpet-shaped,
carnivorous pitcher plants, including the federally endangered American
chaffseed which was discovered there in summer 2008.
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U.S. Rep. Charles Floyd Hatcher
Doerun is the birthplace of U.S. Representative Charles Floyd
Hatcher. Hatcher, a Democrat, was born in 1939 and served six consecutive
terms in Congress from 1981 to 1993.
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Moultrie: Antique Capital of South Georgia
Moultrie is dubbed "The Antique Capital of South Georgia."
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The Pine Barrens
Early maps of Colquitt County label it as "Piney Wastes"
or "Pine Barrens" describing a large area of longleaf pine
forests used mainly as a buffer zone between the Creeks and the Seminoles.
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1935: Colquitt County Rural Electric Company
Colquitt County was among the first in the U.S. to provide
electricity to rural homes and farms. The Colquitt County Rural Electric
Company was established just after the creation of the national Rural
Electrification Administration in 1935.
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Reed Bingham State Park
The first volunteer program to assist in monitoring the threatened
gopher tortoise was launched by Reed Bingham State Park. Reed Bingham's
1,613 acres are home to alligator, bald eagle, indigo snake, the rare
limpkin, heron and, in the coldest winters, thousands of buzzards.
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Pro baseball player Bill Hall
Home of Bill Hall, the 1st player from Colquitt County to make
the major leagues. Hall played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954.
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