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Naomi Chapman Woodroof (1900-1989)

Naomi Chapman Woodroof, the daughter of pioneer settlers on the Snake River in Idaho, was also a pioneer in her own right. She was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station. Woodroof was also the first woman named to the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame and one of the"T...

Peanuts

Georgia is the number-one peanut-producing state in the country, accounting for approximately 49 percent of the crop's national acreage and production. In 2012 Georgia farmers harvested 730,000 acres of peanuts, the official state crop, for a yie...

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Georgia Women of Achivement Induction Ceremony

The Georgia Women of Achievement inducts three new members on March 5 at Wesleyan College in...

Woman Suffrage

Most southern women did not publicly express a desire for equal rights with men until well after the Civil War (1861-65), and suffrage, or the right to vote, came later to wom...

Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)

Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA). She was born on October 31, 1860, in Savannah, the second of six children...