Christmas at Tate House – Tate, Ga

Tate is a tiny community of less than 2,000 people in northwest Georgia. However, it boasts the title of Marble Capital of the US.

What do the Lincoln Memorial, New York Stock Exchange, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the capitols of Kentucky, Arkansas, and Minnesota have in common? The buildings consist of Georgia marble mined by the Georgia Marble Company, founded by Sam Tate in 1884.

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