- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ludowici Billboard
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1970-04-16
- Subject:
- Tourism--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Long County, 31.75258, -81.74577
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- C. W. Herndon, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, stands before a billboard, erected at his suggestion, in 1970. During the mid-twentieth century, the town of Ludowici in east Georgia acquired the reputation of being a speed trap, in which tourists traveling to and from Florida were often stopped.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/exhibition/seeing-georgia-changing-visions-of-tourism-in-the-modern-south/m-8835/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/vg2/id/9222/rec/1
- Original Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
-
