Bumpkin, Georgia's Little Grand Canyon

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In my opinion is that the government should make the canyon a park. The canyon would make an excellent park for people to go and enjoy. Where is Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon" The Canyon is located in Bumpkin, Georgia. It is near the Alabama border. The canyon was not a really a canyon. In the 1800s farmers began growing the time period's most profitable crop. The way they made the area look like it is today is by cutting down all the trees and started plowing and planting seeds in long straight lines. It the soil cause the rocks to break down and cause erosion.

When the farmers were growing crops on the canyon before it was an actual canyon, they caused a string of events that drastically changed the landscape. The farmers

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