Category: Georgia
The Great Locomotive Chase
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/03Nov23-Great-Locamotive-Chase.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Great Locomotive Chase – an event that occurred in 1862 when a secret force of Union soldiers…
Clark Gable as a Dying Union Soldier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/11Aug23-Atlanta-Cyclorama-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people remember Clark Gable in the movie Gone With the Wind. But have you seen him in his role…
How A Bankruptcy Benefitted Atlanta
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/10Aug23-Atlanta-Cyclorama-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Never was the bankruptcy of a circus so fortuitous to a city. Not only did they pick up what would…
A Large Wall For a Campaign Poster
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/09Aug23-Atlanta-Cyclorama-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It began life as a campaign poster, although you would have to have one very large wall to ever hang…
The Boys Who Manned the Civil War Navy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/17Mar22-Civil-War-Naval-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine boys 11 to 15 years of age going to war. It was reality for these young men and the…
Battle of the Iron Clads
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/03/16Mar22-Civil-War-Naval-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you’ve heard of the story of the Monitor and Merramack…the first two ironclad ships to do battle in the…
One of the Worst Places on Earth
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/27Aug21-Andersonville-Prison-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today’s rolling hillsides are serene and peaceful, yet it was this very place that was once one of the worst…
A Place Called Andersonville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/08/26Aug21-Andersonville-Prison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)By the end of the Civil War, the conditions inside this prison grew so bleak as to compel one soldier…
A Method to Your Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/21Jun19-Methodist-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…
The Beginning of a Reformation Movement
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/20Jun19-Methodist-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)On the southeast coast of Georgia you can find the place were these brothers encountered one of their most trying…
Fort Fredrica
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/26Oct18-Fort-Fredrica.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)When European nations sailed to America, each began to lay claim to new lands. Many built forts to protect their…
Who Was Vice President of the Confederacy?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/14Aug18-AH-Stephens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve heard of Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. But who was his vice president?
The Confederacy on the Move
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/13Aug18-Jefferson-Davis-Capture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Union troops advanced on Richmond, Virginia, the president of the Confederacy was on the move. The story of the…
The First Emancipation Proclomation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/09Aug18-Fort-Pulaski-2018.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was the first emancipation proclamation of the Civil War and it wasn’t issued by Lincoln. We’ll go to the…
Leaving Your Hospital Bed to Fight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/23May18-Cannonball-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)By 1864 the situation the situation in Macon, Georgia was so dire that men in the hospital were asked to…
The Cannonball House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/22May18-Cannonball-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)The city of Macon, Georgia is still a place where you can find elegant plantation mansions…homes of some of the…
Raising Corn In A Swamp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/11/15Dec17-Okefenokee-Swamp-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might not think of a swamp as the best place to grow a corn crop. But here is was…
Inside the Earth Lodge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/11Apr17-Ocmulgee-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It this country…the U.S. Capitol is the place where laws are made…but 1000 years ago…it was perhaps this earth lodge…
Unique Mounds and Lodges
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/10Apr17-Ocmulgee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of what we know about this group of people comes from the mounds they built all across the U.S. …
The Methodist Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Jun14-Methodist-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you do something the same way day after day, you might be said to have a method to your…
