"Many of those volumes offer Southerners valuable insight into their agrarian heritage, and, thanks to Callaway Gardens, hundreds of editions are now available for public viewing. On Wednesday, the famed gardens and resort in Pine Mountain announced the donation of more than 1,000 rare volumes to the Atlanta History Center's Cherokee Garden Library. The books, given in memory of gardens founder Virginia Hand Callaway, had been on loan for 10 years to the niche library, which houses more than 6,000 other volumes."

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