ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The fate of an old railroad trestle made famous by Athens' most famous band, R.E.M., is being discussed in the northeast Georgia town.

That section of the trail includes the abandoned railroad trestle in the county's Dudley Park, part of which became an iconic symbol of the Athens music scene after a photograph of it appeared on ...

ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 4 -- Officials in a famous rock band's hometown voted Wednesday to buy the century-old railroad trestle featured on R.E.M.'s first album, "Murmur." Athens-Clarke County ...

The trestle, of timber stringer construction spanning Trail Creek near downtown Athens, was built in 1883. It extended the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company’s line into Athens from Augusta.

ATHENS, Ga. — An aging Georgia railroad trestle known for gracing a 1980s R.E.M. album may be preserved as part of a trail network if voters approve a county sales tax plan. Officials in Athens ...

ATHENS, Ga. — Police body camera video shows the gripping moments when officers worked to save a man threatening to jump off a 150-foot-high bridge. The video shows a man leaning from a wire ...

ATHENS, Ga.—In a verdant park tucked away in this southern college town sits a partially demolished railroad trestle. Strands of dead kudzu hang from its log supports. Parts of the wood crumble ...

Athens Georgia welcomes R.E.M. fans 45 years after the band started there R.E.M. played its first concert there in ... the Murmur Trestle, an old wooden railroad bridge immortalized in a black ...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The fate of an old railroad trestle made famous by Athens’ most famous band, R.E.M., is being discussed in the northeast Georgia town. The question of what to do with the ...