Blue Ridge, Georgia

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Mark Wills
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Rivers & Roads in Song near Blue Ridge

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Chattahoochee River 5 songs

History of Blue Ridge

The Metal That Kills Germs by Itself RoadyGoat

Here's something strange about copper: germs die on it. All by itself, with no spray and no cleaning, a bare copper or brass surface kills bacteria. It's not a coating that wears off, it's the metal itself. Lab tests run under federal protocols showed copper alloy surfaces wipe out more than ninety-nine point nine percent of dangerous bacteria, including the nasty drug-resistant kind, within about two hours of contact. Copper is actually the first solid surface the Environmental Protection Agency ever registered as able to kill germs on its own. That's why you'll see brass doorknobs, copper handrails, and copper touch surfaces in some hospitals. People sensed this for centuries before they understood it, reaching for copper and brass in sickrooms. The same reddish metal mined here is, in a quiet way, a tiny germ-fighter.

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The Statue of Liberty Used to Be Brown RoadyGoat

1886

The Statue of Liberty is made of copper, and when she was unveiled in eighteen eighty-six she wasn't green at all. She was a shiny reddish-brown, the color of a brand-new penny. Her copper skin is surprisingly thin, only about the thickness of two pennies stacked together. Out in the salt air and rain of New York Harbor, that copper slowly reacted with the weather and oxidized, turning first a dull brown and then, over roughly thirty years, that famous soft green. The green coating is called patina, or verdigris, and here's the clever part: it isn't damage. It's armor. The patina is a thin protective skin the copper grows over itself that shields the metal underneath from weathering away. So Lady Liberty's color is just chemistry, the exact same chemistry that happens to copper like the kind once mined here in the Copper Basin.

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Copperhill: The Town the Ore Named RoadyGoat

1850

Copperhill sits in the Copper Basin, the Ducktown district of Polk County, Tennessee, right on the line where Tennessee meets Georgia. The name is exactly what it sounds like: a hill of copper. Miners started pulling reddish copper ore out of these ridges in the eighteen fifties, and for the next century this became one of the biggest copper-producing districts in the entire eastern United States. They dug it, they crushed it, and they smelted it right here. The town, the mines, the rail spurs, the whole economy grew up around that metal in the ground. When it came time to put a name on the place, nobody got fancy. The copper built the hill into a town, so they called it Copperhill, plain and honest, after the very thing that put it on the map.

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