Metro Atlanta
Flashback Photos: Breaking ground on Buford Dam, 1950
On March 2, 1950, Georgia dignitaries gathered to break ground on a massive project that would create a reservoir to provide electricity, flood control....
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Gov. Herman Talmadge (from left), H. Weldon Gardner, E.L. Hart, Mayor W.B. Hartsfield, Larry Kleckley, Col. B.L. Robinson, and Ray Otwell push on shovels as ground was broken Wednesday, March 2, 1950, for the start of construction on Buford Dam.
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