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A Bitter Peace - The Reconstruction of Georgia

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

Destruction of Courthouses in Georgia

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Georgia

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Georgia Before Oglethorpe

A resource guide to Georgia's early colonial period, 1521-1733.

Georgia Department of Transportation - Covered Bridges

Georgia Historic Markers

Except on interstate highways, it is difficult to drive on Georgia streets and highways for any length of time without seeing one or more historical markers. Almost 2,600 of these icons of local history cover the state, a total only exceeded by Texas (11,000) and New York (2,800).

Georgia History Timeline

Gullah Dialect and Sea Island Culture

Gullah is a creole form of English, indigenous to the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

North Georgia History

The New Georgia Encyclopedia

This Day in Georgia History

Work Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Georgia

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