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Author Index
                         
Carol Ebel
Appling County
Appling County, located south of the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia, was created by an act of the...
Baxley
Baxley, the seat of Appling County, is located in the wiregrass region of southeastern Georgia. Most...
Benjamin Taliaferro (1750-1821)
Benjamin Taliaferro served as a Continental soldier during the American Revolution. He moved in 1784...
Casimir Pulaski in Georgia
Brigadier General Count Casimir (or Kazimierz) Pulaski came from Poland to fight in the American Revolution...
George Mathews (1739-1812)
George Mathews, a veteran of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War (1775-83), migrated to...
Goose Pond
The Goose Pond community of Oglethorpe County was named for a pond of at least fifty acres located near...
Johann Martin Boltzius (1703-1765)
Johann Martin Boltzius (sometimes spelled "Bolzius") was senior minister to the Salzburger community...
John Reynolds (ca. 1713-1788)
John Reynolds, a captain in the British royal navy, served as Georgia's first royal governor from late...
Lexington
Lexington, the seat of Oglethorpe County in northeast Georgia, is eighty-five miles east of Atlanta and...
Louisville
Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until...
Samuel Nunes (ca. 1667-ca. 1741)
Samuel Nunes (or Nunez), a physician, was one of the first Jewish immigrants to the Georgia colony in...
William Stephens (1671-1753)
William Stephens migrated from England to Savannah in 1737 to serve as secretary of Trustee Georgia....
Wallace B. Eberhard
Certified Literate Community Program (CLCP)
Statistics on literacy in Georgia indicate that a third of adults in the state have difficulties with...
Clark Howell (1863-1936)
Clark Howell was a prominent state politician and, for fifty-three years, an editorial executive and...
John T. Edge
Foodways: Overview
Foodways, a comparatively recent term, is the study of the procurement, preparation, and consumption...
Grace Toney Edwards
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
The 1951 film, starring Susan Hayward and William Lundigan, tells the story...
Leslie Edwards
Environmental History of Georgia: Overview
Environmental history is defined here as the history of human impact on the landscape. It is a relatively...
Georgia Community Greenspace Program
The Georgia Community Greenspace Program, passed into law under Governor Roy Barnes in 2000, encourages...
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