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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, such...

Upper Coastal Plain

The Upper Coastal Plain of Georgia is bounded on the north by the fall line and extends south to Florida and east to the upper terraces of the...

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University of Georgia Press

The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state and the only member of the Association of American University Presses within the University System ...

Harriet Powers (1837-1910)

Harriet Powers is one of the best-known southern African American quilt makers, even though only two of her quilts, both of which she made after the...

Kolomoki Mounds

The Kolomoki Mounds site is one of the largest prehistoric mound complexes in Georgia. At the time of its highest development, from around A.D. 350 to 600, Kolomoki was perhaps one of the most populous settlements north of Mexico. The site is loca...