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Tidal Marshes

Almost a third of the Atlantic Coast's tidal salt marshes are located in Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain, as are thousands of acres of rare tidal freshwater marshes. Immortalized in poet Sidney Lanier's poem "The Marshes of Glynn," these wide expanses of salt marsh are the most visible physical feature along Georgia's 100-mile-long coast. The salt marshes stretch in a band four to six miles wide between the mainland and coastal barrier islands. A major reason for Georgia's extensive expanses of salt marsh is that its coast experiences the highest tides along the southeastern shoreline. In general, the higher the tidal range, the greater the pro...

Ponce de Leon Ballpark

Ponce de Leon Ballpark in Atlanta was one of the nation's finest minor league baseball facilities in the early to...

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The newly redesigned Digital Library of Georgia is now available online. The site connects users to half a million digital objects in more than 600 collections from over 130 institutions and 100 government agencie...