Georgia
- Beaulieu ("pretty place")
- Berrien County
- Decatur
- Decatur County
- Fannin County
- Fayette County
- LaGrange ("The Barn", named for the French Estate of Marquis de Lafayette)
- Lanier County
- Macon
- Valdosta (named after the French-speaking region of Val d'Aoste in the Italian Alps)
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Famous quotes containing the word georgia:
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the 20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find, just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.”
—Stuart Gorrell (d. 1963)