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Late Victorian Architecture: Overview

Across Georgia, the period from 1895 to 1920 was an era of expansion and growth. In Atlanta, for instance, the "New South" center was transforming itself from a Victorian town that aspired to become the "Gate City" and leading metropolis of the region to a burgeoning metropolitan area whose downtown was connected by streetcar and then automobile to emerging suburbs and neighborhood commercial districts well beyond the limits of the nineteenth-century city. The growth was reflected both vertically, with new skyscrapers, and horizontally, with new suburbs. In Savannah, the tower of William Aiken's Renaissance revival post office (1898) and tall building blocks, suc...

Boundaries of Georgia

The boundary lines that define the state of Georgia are significant for a variety of reasons, such as ownership of physical territory, jurisdiction for the state's laws, and...

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Georgia Disability History Archive

The Georgia Disability History Alliance, a partnership of the Shepherd Center, the University o...

Paleontology of the Coastal Plain Province

Sedimentary deposits of Georgia's Coastal Plain cover more than half the state and contain abundant fossils of both vertebrates and invertebrates. The ages of these fossils ...

Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band, formed in 1969 and featuring twin guitars and twin drums, created the "southern rock" genre by brilliantly mixing blues, jazz,...