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Author Index
                         
Buddy Sullivan
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
Georgia's coast is more than 100 miles in length. Its most impressive natural feature is the chain of...
Blackbeard Island
The setting for generations of pirate lore and tales of buried treasure, coastal Georgia's Blackbeard...
Bryan County
Bryan County, on the Georgia coast just south and west of Savannah, was created from Chatham County by...
Darien
The seat of McIntosh County, Darien is a coastal tidewater town about sixty miles south of Savannah....
Fort McAllister
Fort McAllister was a Confederate earthwork fortification near the mouth of the Ogeechee River in Bryan...
Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806)
Lachlan McIntosh, a member of a prominent eighteenth-century Scottish Highland family that was among...
Little St. Simons Island
Little St. Simons Island lies in Glynn County across the north end of great St. Simons Island, separated...
McIntosh County
McIntosh County, on the Georgia coast, was created from Liberty County by an act of the state legislature...
Naval Stores Industry
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Georgia was the world's leading producer of naval...
Ossabaw Island
Lying twenty miles south of Savannah, Ossabaw, the principal barrier island of the upper Georgia coast...
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill, situated on the Ogeechee River fifteen miles south of Savannah, is the largest municipality...
Sapelo Island
Sapelo Island, situated about sixty miles south of Savannah, lies in the center of coastal Georgia's...
Savannah
Founded in 1733 by colonists led by James Edward Oglethorpe, Savannah is the oldest city in Georgia and...
Thomas Spalding (1774-1851)
Thomas Spalding, noted antebellum planter of Sapelo Island, was one of the most influential agriculturists...
Donnie Summerlin
DeForest Kelley (1920-1999)
Georgia native DeForest Kelley was an actor best known for his role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the...
George W. Crawford (1798-1872)
George W. Crawford, the sole Whig to serve as governor of Georgia, was elected to two terms from 1843...
Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981)
Melvyn Douglas was an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award–winning actor, whose film career began during...
Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798-1859)
Georgia native Mirabeau B. Lamar, a state senator, journalist, poet, and soldier, served as the second...
Althea Sumpter
Geechee and Gullah Culture
The Gullah and Geechee culture on the Sea Islands of Georgia has retained ethnic traditions from West...
Erwin Surrency
Supreme Court of Georgia
For several decades after the American Revolution (1775-83), Georgia was the only state that did not...
Alan Sverdlik
Atlanta Business Chronicle
The, a weekly journal, has covered economic trends, events, and multimillion-dollar...
Atlanta Daily World
The, the oldest African American newspaper in Atlanta, has provided coverage of and...
Augusta Chronicle
The, which started as the weeklyin 1785, is one of the oldest newspapers...
Macon Telegraph
The, which in 2005 dropped the city's name from its official masthead, is the state's...
Savannah Morning News
Thecovers coastal Georgia, a number of inland counties, and a small portion of South...
Savannah Tribune
The, a weekly newspaper covering news and issues related to Savannah's African American...
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