- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Callaway Gardens
- Creator:
- Minchew, Kaye Lanning
- Date of Original:
- 2006-02-03
- Subject:
- Callaway family
Gardens--Georgia
Azaleas--Georgia
Callaway Gardens (Pine Mountain, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Harris County, Pine Mountain, 32.86485, -84.8541
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Callaway Gardens. Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, site of the world's largest azalea garden, encompasses more than 14,000 acres and, in addition to the gardens, offers golfing, boating, cycling, and other leisure activities. In the 1950s Cason and Virginia Hand Callaway transformed land left barren from decades of cotton farming into a place of beauty and relaxation. Since it opened to the public, Callaway Gardens, located about seventy miles southwest of Atlanta, has attracted millions of visitors.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/callaway-gardens/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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