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Piedmont is an unincorporated community that is located in Southwestern Lamar County, Georgia, United States, Located at 33.017 -84.251. U.S Route 19 Passes about 4 miles west from town, available via Allen, Piedmont, and Vega roads. State Route 36 passes about 4 miles south southwest of Piedmont available via The Rock road, Which leads to The ...
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States in North America.The Golden Isles of Georgia lie off the coast of the state. The main geographical features include mountains such as the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the northwest, the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast, the Piedmont plateau in the central portion of the state and Coastal Plain in the south.
The culture of the Piedmont Atlantic megaregion is a subset of the culture of the greater Southern United States. It is mainly a combination of the cultures of Georgia and North Carolina, as these two states have the greatest populations by far of the five states that make up the region, and contain most of the region's major cities.
The Piedmont physiographic region of Georgia is underlain by rocks of the geological Blue Ridge and geological Piedmont terranes. The geological Piedmont is limited to rocks southeast of the Brevard fault zone and northwest of the Coastal Plain unconformity ( Fall Line ), whereas the physiographic Piedmont stretches from the Fall Line to the ...
Georgia leads the United States in timber production, and timber is its highest valued agricultural product. Georgia is second in the nation with more than 3,800 certified Tree Farms that total nearly eight million acres. Moreover, Georgia was the first state in the nation to license foresters and today the state has about 1,200 licensed foresters.
The Piedmont region in the Appalachian Highlands. The Piedmont (/ ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / PEED-mont) [1] is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States.It is situated between the Atlantic Plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre (0.76 km 2) urban park in Atlanta, Georgia, located about 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Downtown, between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. Originally the land was owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who used it as his out-of-town gentleman's farm and residence.
The Piedmont Exposition Company was founded in June 1887 by a group of men who met in the offices of the Atlanta Constitution.The company's chief purpose was to organize the Piedmont Exhibition for the purpose of exhibiting the natural resources of the Piedmont region, including Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama.