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Gopher Tortoise Festival
Douglas, GA · Quirky
- When
- October 3, 2026
- Where
- Central Square Complex · Douglas · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Started in 2019, the Gopher Tortoise Festival celebrates Georgia's state reptile and its sandhill habitat around Douglas with a day of live music, arts and crafts and food vendors in downtown Douglas.
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Started in 2019, the Gopher Tortoise Festival celebrates Georgia's state reptile and its sandhill habitat around Douglas with a day of live music, arts and crafts and food vendors in downtown Douglas..
An Indiana newspaperman founded a town in south Georgia for veterans of the Union army, thirty years after the war, and it filled up.
Fitzgerald's downtown streets close each March for a festival built around the town's free roaming Burmese chickens, descendants of birds the state stocked as game fowl in the 1960s.
A ten-foot peanut wearing a crown on a brick tower beside Interstate 75, put up by the county to say what is grown here.
Her husband was one of at least eleven people killed by mobs over a week in Brooks and Lowndes counties.