The pyramids and other Egyptian-themed accouterments of Dwight York’s Tama-Re complex are long gone, leaving just a bucolic countryside scene alongside Shady Dale Road in the northwest portion of Putnam County. IAN TOCHER/Staff
Sheriff Howard Sills looks over an old poster in a storage room filled with Nuwaubian materials and evidence at the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office in Eatonton. IAN TOCHER/Staff
The remnants of a “tourist train” was left to decay along with the rest of Tama-Re following a multi-agency law enforcement raid on the Nuwaubian Nation complex in May 2002. CONTRIBUTED
Editor’s note: The symmetry of 52 weeks in a year and 26 letters in our alphabet inspired us here at The Eatonton Messenger to embark on an alphabetical journey of Putnam County every other week this year, looking at something – or someone – unique, significant, unusual, or just plain interesting.
On, Feb. 28, 1993, federal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agents arri...
