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Georgia was a Confederate State in the US Civil War. It's largest city, Atlanta, became a main target of General Sherman.
Georgia became a royal colony in 1752
General James Oglethorpe became interested in helping london's poor while investigating the conditions in debtors' prisons.
What used to be Western Georgia became the state of Mississippi.
When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785, Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university. In 1784 the General Assembly had set aside 40,000 acres of land to endow a college or seminary of learning.
Georgia lies geographically in the American South. It was founded by a man named Oglethorpe ( he who looks over the town!) to take the word apart, originally as a sort of halfway-house penal colony. Georgia figured prominently in the Campaigns of General Sherman in his March to The Sea. These real battles formed part of the backdrop to the Civil War Novel -Gone with the Wind. Destruction of property was part of the tactical storm brewed by General Sherman. To this day, the song ( marching through Georgia!) is never played in the South!