Omaha, Georgia
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Omaha is an unincorporated community in Stewart County
Stewart County, Georgia
Stewart County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on December 23, 1830. The 2010 Census reflected a population of 6,058. The 2009 Census Estimate shows a population of 4,558. The county seat is Lumpkin.-History:...

, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.

Geography

Omaha is located in the northwest corner of Stewart County near the juncture of the Chattahoochee River
Chattahoochee River
The Chattahoochee River flows through or along the borders of the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers and emptying into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of...

 and Hannahatchee Creek.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2392&hl=y

Florence Marina State Park
Florence Marina State Park
Florence Marina State Park is a 173 acre Georgia state park located near Omaha on the eastern shore of Walter F. George Lake. The park is known for its deep-water marina and its many water recreation sports, such as fishing and waterskiing. The park also attracts many bird-watchers hoping to...

 is located outside of Omaha. The Roods Landing Site
Roods Landing Site
The Roods Landing Site or Roods Creek Mounds are located south of Omaha, Stewart County, Georgia, United States.It is a Middle Woodland / Mississippian period Pre-Columbian complex of earthen mounds at the juncture of Roods Creek and the Chattahoochee River. It was a political and ceremonial center...

 is located south of Omaha.

History

Omaha was founded in the 1891 when the railroad arrived.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2392&hl=y

Fitzgerald Cemetery is located about a mile outside of town.http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/stewart/cemeteries/fitzger.txt

The cathouse scene of The Long Riders
The Long Riders
The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack...

, starring Dennis and Randy Quaid, and the Carradines, was filmed in the Lee house which was located next to the Fitzgerald Cemetery until it was torn down due to disrepair some years ago.

In Ulysses

Omaha is mentioned in James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

's 1922 novel, Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...

, as the fictional scene of a lynching
Lynching
Lynching is an extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people. It is related to other means of social control that...

:
Hanging over the bloody paper with Alf looking for spicy bits instead
of attending to the general public. Picture of a butting match, trying to
crack their bloody skulls, one chap going for the other with his head down
like a bull at a gate. And another one: BLACK BEAST BURNED IN OMAHA, GA.
A lot of Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or "dime novels", published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler...

s in slouch hats and they firing at a Sambo
Sambo (ethnic slur)
Sambo is a racial term for a person with African heritage and, in some countries, also mixed with Native American heritage .-History:...

strung
up in a tree with his tongue out and a bonfire under him. Gob, they ought
to drown him in the sea after and electrocute and crucify him to make sure
of their job.http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/ulyss12.txt
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