Where: Macon, Georgia

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• Where Macon, Georgia
• Famous people, events Harriet Tubman
• Reason for Preservation The museum teaches us
  about African American art, history, and
  culture.
  
• Father Richard Keil founded it
• Fourteen Galleries
• Houses 200 year old Nak figures, beaded Yoruba
  wall panels, and Benin bronzes.

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• Where Atlanta, Georgia
• Famous person, event Margaret Mitchell
• Reason for preservation She wrote Gone with the
  Wind a novel from the Civil War.
  
• Exclusive photographs and archival exhibits
  telling her story.
  
• Opened December 15,1999 sixtieth anniversary of
  the movie premier in Atlanta.
  
• Exclusive letters from her husband to his family
  in Kentucky.

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• Where Atlanta, Georgia
• Famous people, event Jimmy Carter
• Reason for preservation It is part of the
  Presidential Library System
  
• Letters, poems, etc. that came in after the 9/11
  attacks.
  
• Jimmy Carters Nobel Peace Prize in display
• Record on Cuban- Haitian task force.

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• Where Andersonville, Georgia
• Famous people, events Civil War
• Reason for preservation One of the largest
  historical prisons
  
• One of the largest of many Confederate military
  prisons.
  
• Built in 1864 after Confederate officials decided
  to move large number of federal prisoners kept in
  Richmond, Virginia.
  
• Only park in the National Park System to serve as
  a memorial to all American war prisoners
  throughout the nations history.

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• Where Calhoun, Georgia
• Famous people, event Cherokees
• Reason for Preservation Shows the way the
  Cherokees lived before they were moved west.
  
• Capitol of Cherokee Nation
• Cherokee Phoenix printed there
• They adopted a system of government similar to
  the U.S. today.

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• Where Atlanta, Georgia
• Famous people,event Native American History in
  Georgia, Civil War
  
• Reason for Preservation Exhibits important facts
  about important events in Georgia.
  
• Tullie Smith Farm- Civil War survivor
• museum includesthousands of items that tell the
  story of Atlanta, The state of Georgia, and the
  South.
  
• Explore the stories of both Confederateand
  Federal soldiers from thebeginnings of the
  crisis through the time of rebuilding

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