Gudmundur Thorarinsson, a chess-player (and an engineer by profession), hoped to convince the assembled scholars that the 92 walrus ivory pieces unearthed on the Isle of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland, in 1831 were the work of a woman carver commissioned by a medieval Icelandic bishop.
466 Acres Ideal, Macon County, Georgia. $1,211,600. 466 Acres +- Located just north of Ideal Ga in Macon County. Macon County is one of the best Trophy buck counties in the state. This property has prime thick cover and plenty of water to hold those big bucks. Also has a great road system and food plots.
Metter, the county seat of Candler County, originally incorporated in Bulloch County on August 17, 1903. Later, the state legislature redrew the county boundaries, and Metter joined Candler County. Metter's beginning, like those of many other small cities in Georgia, depended on the railroad. The city grew up solely as a rail stop. In fact, as legend has it, the city's name honors a railroad official's wife.