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TitleTown USA. Valdosta, Georgia was recently named TitleTown USA by ESPN SportsCenter. View official TItleTown Website
President George W. Bush completed undergraduate pilot training in 1969 with the 3559th Student Squadron, Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. His National Guard duty became a topic of controversy in the 2001 Presidential Elections. View related link.
Willie Lee Daniels of Valdosta and his business partner, Travers Bell Jr. founded the firm Daniels and Bell, the first black company to become a member of the New York Stock Exchange on June 24, 1971. View related link.
Fried Green Tomatoes. In this Hollywood movie starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy, the bad guy, Fred Bennett, is from Valdosta, Georgia.View related link.
John Henry “Doc” Holiday a infamous outlaw was the son of a Valdosta Mayor. He practiced dentistry in the area until, troubled by tuberculosis, headed west for better climate. View related link
Jingle Bells was composed by James Lord Pierpont who taught music in Valdosta between 1866 to 1970. View related link
Louis Emanuel Lomax, author and educator, became the first black newscaster in the country when he began work at WNTA-TV, New York City, in 1958. View related link.
Jerry Morris, local citizen, paid $30 for a picture at a yard sale and it turned out to be an original stone lithograph of the Washington Monument. It’s worth at least 2 million dollars. View related link.
Valdosta Coca-Cola was the second plant in the world to bottle Coke.
Memlon Williams, a local corrections officer, won the Al Roker look-alike contest at NBC’s “The Today Show” on October 29, 2004. View related link.
Carrol S. Woods who was born on a farm in rural Lowndes County was a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. He flew 107 combat missions with the 100th Fighter Squadron, which never lost never lost a single bomber aircraft to enemy action. After being shot down while flying a P-51 Mustang, he was a prisoner for the last seven months of the war. Woods was liberated from a stalag at Moosburg, Germany in August 1945. View related link.
