Fifty years ago today, history was made as the world sat in front of television sets watching as one small step was taken for man and one giant leap was taken for mankind.
While men were walking on the moon in space for the first time, life was moving along as usual in the Lake Martin area but many residents had their hand in the matter one way or another here at home.
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