Jim Palmer - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) (born 1945). With a lifetime earned-run average (ERA) of 2.86, a 268-152 record, and 2,212 career strikeouts, U.S. pitcher Jim Palmer was selected in 1990 to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
Griffin, Georgia. Griffin is a city in and the county seat of Spalding County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 23,643. Griffin was founded in 1840 and named for landowner Col. Lewis Lawrence Griffin.
Newton county is named after Sgt. John Newton, who served under Gen. Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, in the American Revolutionary War. It was created on December 24, 1821. During the American Civil War, the county provided the Lamar Infantry, which was a part of Cobb's Legion. Georgia is one of many states which have a Newton County and a Jasper County that border each other. In late 1978, the first five episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard were filmed in and around Covington, Georgia.