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Georgia State Parks

Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, a division of the Department of Natural Resources, protects more than 85,000 acres of natural beauty at more than sixty parks and historic sites in the state.

The diversity of landscape within the state parks system includes inland and coastal sites of geographic importance. The Blue Ridge Mountains, with perhaps its most scenic stretch at Georgia's Black Rock Mountain State Park, are located along the Eastern Continental Divide, while Georgia's "Colonial Coast" encompasses a portion of the eastern Atlantic coastline and includes all the Sea Islands. In between these sites lie Amicalola Fal...

Textile Industry

The rise of the textile industry in Georgia was a significant historical development with a profound effect on the state's inhabitants. The narratives surrounding textiles, particularly the cultivation and processing of...

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Georgia Exhibits

The Digital Library of Georgia and the New Georgia Encyclopedia are collaborating on a new, online exhibit site that amplifies often untold and hidden Georgia history. Georgia Exhibits use ma...

Art in Georgia since 1960

The decade of the 1960s was the beginning of an auspicious period, which has since continued and flourished unabated in the history of contemporary visual art in Georgia. Any discussion of regional art in modern America should include the artists,...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Georgia SNCC con...