Canoochee River Valley Association records, 1969-1975.

Edwards, Glenda Durrence.

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Groveland Lakes Development Authority (Ga.)

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Canoochee River Valley Association.

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In 1969, the state legislature of Georgia created the Groveland Lakes Development Authority. The purpose of the Authority was to study the feasibility of creating a recreational lake by damming the Canoochee River at Groveland. This would have meant flooding almost 20,000 acres of land, mostly in Evans County but partly in Bulloch, Candler, and Bryan Counties. The Authority also had the power of eminent domain, or the right to evict those presently located on the land where the Groveland Lakes P...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Durrence, Kenneth.

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Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003

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Lester G. Maddox was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 September 1915, to Dean and Flonnie Maddox. He was educated in the Fulton County public school system but dropped out of high school in order to persue a career (either "to start working" or "to persue a career in something"). In 1936, he married Virginia Cox and the couple eventually had four children. In 1944, Maddox opened a short order grill in Atlanta that he sold a year later at a profit. Maddox continued to hold jobs in the grocery busi...