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The Governor's Mansion , also known as Old Governor's Mansion or Executive Mansion, is a mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia. Georgia has had three... official mansions and one unofficial mansion in two different cities. This one is the first Executive Mansion . It is still open for public tours. The state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. The house is operated by Georgia College & State University as an antebellum historic house museum.
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Anna Gordy Gaye is an American songwriter and composer, known as the elder sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy and the first wife of soul legend... Marvin Gaye, who used their troubled marriage as the focal point of his critically acclaimed 1978 effort, Here, My Dear, an album from which Gordy agreed to receive royalties due to their divorce court proceedings. Born Anna Ruby Gordy in Detroit, Michigan to Berry Gordy Sr. and Bertha Ida Gordy. Shortly before her birth, her family had moved to Detroit to get away from racial tension in Georgia; Anna was born shortly after the Gordys had migrated. She was the third eldest of eight . Most of the Gordy siblings got involved in the music business in the late 1950s forming several production companies in Michigan. Berry, in particular, gained success writing hit songs for Jackie Wilson and a popular Detroit-based vocal group called The Miracles.
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Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. Named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 21, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,... 1870. Georgia is the 24th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the 50 United States. From 2007 to 2008, 14 of Georgia's counties ranked among the nation's 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. Atlanta is the state's capital and its most populous city. Georgia is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina; on the west by Alabama; and on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina. The northern part of the state is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a mountain range in the Appalachian Mountains system.
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