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Braselton Journal - Actress Buys Town A Place on the Map ...  Mar 31, 1989 ... Braselton Journal; Actress Buys Town A Place on the Map ... ''She kind of struck a tender note in our hearts with that,'' Mr. Braselton said. ... Ms. Basinger, a native of north Georgia who has been in films like ... In this region, economies and lore once revolved around vast family-owned plantations and Gothic...
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Braselton, Georgia - Wikipedia  Braselton is a town in Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, and Jackson counties in the U.S. state of Georgia, ... bought 1,751 acres of the town's 2,000 privately owned acres for $20 million from Braselton Brothers Inc ... Five years later, on the eve of personal bankruptcy, she and her partners sold the town at a large loss. .... Article  Talk...
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KIM BASINGER BUYS HERSELF A TOWN | Deseret News  Mar 29, 1989 ... Henry Braselton, grandson of the town's founder, said his fam. ... Actress Kim Basinger, a Georgia native, has bought virtually the entire town of Braselton for $20 ... She will not get homes not owned by the Braselton family or the ... 1Man who allegedly flashed gun at woman while driving acquitted by a jury...
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Braselton Waits For Its First Lady: Kim Basinger - tribunedigital ...  Aug 5, 1989 ... BRASELTON, Ga. -- It`s a long way from the rolling pastures of this one- stoplight town 48 miles ... It told of how Basinger, who once posed for Playboy and had ice ... Then there were reports she was dating Prince, the rock star who ... but I was scared to ask her out ... to talk to her, so I ... married her sister.```...
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Town for sale, priced $2.5m: Community awakes to find developer ...  Jul 26, 2012 ... Toomsboro in Georgia, US, fell on hard times after its school closed and ... Its hotel is rumoured to have once sheltered General Sherman, who became ... Actress Kim Bassinger bought the town of Braselton, Atlanta, USA in 1989 for .... on the school run as she co-parents with Anthony Weiner's mom while...
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The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida  Page 79  Feb 23, 1999 ... Doris inherited almost everything and ended up leaving much of it to her butler, Bernard Lafferty (right). it- HEIRESS Vow 2D York, Newport, R.I., and ... After all, her mom often reminded her, no man would ever look at Doris .... a New York judge's ruling that gave $4.5 million to Lafferty, plus $500,000 a year.
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ANALYSIS The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) Sarah Orne ...  A woman who spends her summers in the isolated seaport town of Dunnet, Maine, describes the region ... Her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), is the best piece of regional fiction to have ... of sketches of Maine life.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, a Florida historic ...  Her cracker style home and farm, where she lived for 25 years and wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling, has been restored and is ... Coming to Cross Creek in 1928 with her husband Charles Rawlings, she settled into her new...
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How All 50 State Capitals Got Their Names | Mental Floss  Dec 18, 2015 ... It's unclear why a Southern settlement decided to name their city after a New ... Still a rough-and-tumble mining town when it was named in 1881, ... It was given its name by Octavia Walton, the teenage daughter of Florida's territorial ..... The word Great was officially dropped from the city's name in 1868.
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There Was an Old Derry Down Derry, Who Loved to Make - Digital ...  ral history on his own, wrote poetry, and began to earn his own way by making ... friends, "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo," "The Pobble Who Has.
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ASA GRIGGS CANDLER INTRODUCTION Asa Griggs Candler  In the year 1891, he had acquired total control of the ... Candler also gave millions to what would later become Emory Hospital. ... Candler was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1916 (taking office in 1917) and ended his day-to-day ... the stock in The Coca-Cola Company to his children, who later sold it to a group of investors led...
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FILM - Julia Roberts, After the Layoff and With Lyle - NYTimes.com  Dec 12, 1993 ... Two years after she made her last film and fell into a tabloid twilight zone over ... "They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts it into people's ... Another Oscar nomination came with "Pretty Woman," the fairy-tale story of a ... In 1991, Ms. Roberts went through what Ms. Goldsmith refers to as her...
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Before the national park, large parts of the Smokies were clear-cut  Oct 1, 2014 ... Between 1901 and 1939, this company cut down hundreds of thousands ... what this part of the Smokies looked like when it was a virgin forest. ... People were so excited that they named the town around the mill after Townsend! ... a skid road  a long, wooden path along which a log would be slid down...
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The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett  Jul 26, 2011 ... Overwhelmed at the intensity of the occasion, her thoughts retreat from the ... Maine, then a booming fishing town (and the model for the Dunnett ... The Berwick of Jewett's childhood was a burgeoning seaport, but over the course of her life it ... The Country of Pointed Firs is a true masterpiece of American...
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It was many and many a year ago (Poe, set by Michael William Balfe ...  Jun 16, 2014 ... It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And...
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Literature: Overview | New Georgia Encyclopedia  Oct 3, 2013 ... Joel Chandler Harris, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, wrote ... Other writers were directly concerned with Georgia: Margaret Mitchell, ... viewed their state as a microcosm and wrote both as native citizens and...
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Town of Lenox - Lenox History  The Lenox of today is a product of its colorful history ... In the town's first taste of tourism, Hinsdale eventually established a small inn and ... found in other Berkshire towns: sawmills, textile mills, ironworks, glassworks and a quarry, among others. .... Many of her friends and admirers came to visit her in Lenox, and these lively...
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Jeopary Questions page 1729 - HISTORIC WOMEN - TriviaBistro.com  HISTORIC WOMEN: You're on the money if you know she's the historic interpreter depicted here ... COURT TV: This Court TV website, named for a piece of indisputable evidence, broke the Rick Rockwell ... A GEORGIA TOUR: If you hear Fort Valley called a pit, it's only because it's the seat of this county named for a fruit.
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Governor's Mansion rolls on: Takeover was all about control ...  May 28, 2016 ... Asa Hutchinson to strip the Governor's Mansion Commission of its power. ... The use of the Grand Hall has also apparently been a sore spot. ... years, some governors have been able to work with the Commission ... our eight years there, and we were really mindful of who the house ... And here we are now.
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Full text of "Tennessee county history series : Fayette County / by ...  There are presently nine incorporated towns in the county: Braden, Gallaway, LaGrange .... He bought land in Fayette County in 1827, part of the thousand-acre tract ... the manor house of which still stands on a 370-acre plot of the original plantation .... Good Springs, also 14 Tennessee County History Series formerly called...