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Where some names originate in North Georgia
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A new street sign went up in Gainesville the other day — Sweet Bay Drive, the entrance to Atlanta Botanical Gardens’ Smithgall Woodland Gardens off Cleveland Road. The name honors the memory of Lessie and Charles Smithgall’s late daughter Bay, but it also refers to the Sweet Bay trees that are plentiful in the gardens. The Smithgalls donated the property for the gardens.