This year we held an all-day Open House with a Map Gallery. Forsyth County is located 30 miles north of Atlanta in the lower foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. It extends over most of the west side of Lake Lanier, a 20 mile long 37,000-acre Army Corp of Engineers Reservoir.

We are all pictured below in front of the County Administration Building where our event was held. Featured is the "Egg Man Statue," a sculpture of a man holding a chicken and gathering eggs with a young girl. It was created to commemorate the poultry industry in Forsyth County. It was sculpted by Gregory Johnson and dedicated January 1997.

The man in the sculpture is "wearing" one of our logo t-shirts with the GIS Day logo on the back, as is the young girl. The paper mache globe was made by North Forsyth Middle School art students to celebrate GIS Day, and the Forsyth County GIS Team.

We also held a "Geography Bake-Off 2005!" See all 4 of our cake entries on the Takes the Cake page.

Read more and see our Map Gallery photos.

Submitted by Mary Jo Black Enderby, GIS Analyst, Forsyth County, Department of Water & Sewer