re: Athens - The Classic City in Photos

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Seeing how Lake Oconee wasn't impounded till 1979...

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There's only so much ignorance I can address in one post. If there's any argument to be made for an alternate location, it likely would have been to put the university near present day Lumber City at the intersection of the Ocmulgee and Oconee Rivers, where the Altamaha forms and begins its run down to the coast. It would have actually been closer to the then-capital of Louisville, GA (and, subsequently, Milledgeville) and obviously closer to Savannaah.