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Most Popular Articles

This page displays the most popular articles on the NGE from the last 30 days.

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91. Slave Trade to Savannah

Over the course of forty-eight years, Savannah played an integral role in the Atlantic slave trade. Although...

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92. Gone With the Wind (Film)

Few films are so closely identified with a geographical region as Gone With the Wind is identified with...

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93. Colonial Immigration

Immigrants to colonial Georgia came from a vast array of regions around the Atlantic basin?including...

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94. Chattahoochee River

The Chattahoochee River rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia and flows southwesterly toward...

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95. Sequoyah (ca. 1770-ca. 1840)

Sequoyah, or Sequoia (both spellings were given by missionaries, but in Cherokee the name is closer to...

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96. Providence Canyon

Providence Canyon is a network of gorges in southwest Georgia created by the erosion of soft, multicolored...

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97. Macon

Macon, the seat of Bibb County, is the retail, medical, financial, educational, and cultural center of...

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98. Fall Line

The fall line is a geological boundary about twenty miles wide that runs across Georgia northeastward...

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99. Lynching

Between 1882 and 1930 the American South experienced an epidemic of fatal mob violence that produced...

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100. Bloody Marsh, Battle of

On July 7, 1742, English and Spanish forces skirmished on St. Simons Island in an encounter later known...

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