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GAY, GEIA
* gay ga history *
Gay, Geia. Once known as Sasserville the early 1800s, Gay, Geia acquired s current name when the town’s first post office was opened and named honor of William F.
Gay. A flourishg agricultural area, Gay’s primary crop was tton until the 1930s.
Gay began to expand s agricultural holdgs when large landowners began to grow also grow peach. Gay, Geia is a quiet hamlet of ls that 150 rints ‚ maly prised of retire who seek a quiet, simple liftyle. A perfect plement to the Cotton Pick’ Fair is right across the street ‚ at the Shady Days Gay.
WELE TO THE TOWN OF GAY, GA
While the enomic fluence om the fairs is great, Gay don’t s back on s lrels. It all started when Ann Edmonds, a librarian at the Ponce Leon branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, attend a Servic and Advocy for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Elrs (SAGE) meetg at the Rh Center where members discsed what to do wh the stuff they had accumulated about LGBTQ Atlanta.