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Georgia is "This" Close to its First National Park!
This week, Scott is speaking with 8th District US Representative Austin Scott about the bipartisan legislation that would finally give Georgia a national park. The Ocmulgee Mounds near Macon is already a National Historic Park, but getting the per se "National Park" designation would be a boon for tourism, says Rep. Scott. We look at where the legislation stands now, and the remarkable story of the Mississippian indigenous people who built the mounds around 900 AD.
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