Georgia Bulldog - Carrollton, GA - Dog Statues on Waymarking.com

County of statues: Carroll County
Location of statues: Tanner St., between Mills St. & E. Center St., E. side center of block, Carrollton
Phone: (770) 836-8332

There are actually 4 of these guys in the yard, one on each side of the driveway, and one on each side of the lawn stairs.

"In 1938, or around the time a live bulldog was declared the University of Georgia's official mascot, a debate erupted on campus regarding the origin of the Bulldog as the symbol and spirit of the school. Athens businessman Morton S. Hodgson, who was Georgia's first four-letter athlete and grandfather of star receiver Pat Hodgson of the 1960s, announced that "Bulldogs" had become a nickname of the UGA football squad when he himself was the team mascot as a small child. Hodgson was highly respected in the community; he had been involved in numerous organizations while at UGA and often spoke to groups of students on "home life and religion" after graduation. However, although Hodgson was definitely the school's baseball mascot during the 1890s, his claim of serving the football team, as well, has never been substantiated.

"During the aforementioned "Bulldogs" dispute of 1938, Frederick J. Ball--a photographer who owned a studio in Athens--claimed that in 1904, he became the first to adopt the concept of the Bulldog as the school's mascot. Ball indicated he got the idea just before a baseball game against Georgia Tech that year, when he overheard someone complain about UGA not having a mascot while another compared the appearance of a Georgia player with that of a bulldog. UGA's Pandora of 1922 even attributed the Athens photographer with the origin of the mascot. Of course, in charge of all photos used in the school annual, Ball was connected with the publishing of the Pandora for more than two decades, including the 1922 edition." ~ Patrick Garbin