Pasaquan
Buena Vista, GA · Southwest Georgia$
Eddie Owens Martin, who called himself St. EOM, spent his last three decades building Pasaquan on his late mother's farm 8 miles outside Buena Vista. He took the name after a…
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Andersonville National Historic Site
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On the ground where Camp Sumter held more than 45,000 Union prisoners in its final fourteen months, a reconstructed stretch of stockade wall and the rows of white headstones at the national cemetery mark where nearly 13,000 men died. The National Prisoner of War Museum carries the story forward to every American who has been held captive, and Providence Spring still runs beneath the 1901 pavilion the survivors built. It is a quiet, heavy place that rewards slow walking and unhurried reading.
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