Georgia Facts!

Hello, everyone!

I am so sorry for not posting recently! My mind has left the building and I can't function without it! I wish it had left another year and not senior year! OHH! Makes me mad sometimes.

Anywho! I had a cool idea of what I'd do but I haven't done it yet so it will be up next week but for today I will give you some awesome GA facts from this book my mentor lent me that has some pretty cool stuff even I didn't know about! And that's rare sometimes.

So here we go!

Number 1: Did you know the Hitchiti Indians were living in Georgia when the first white men arrived in about 1540? Evidence shows that at that time they had been residents of Georgia for hundreds of years! Hate to see that home bill!

Number 2: How about the fact that someone tried to kill James Oglethorpe! Three men asked for a conference with him but they planned to lead him to his death! They all apparently were really bad shots and were later executed. Their plan: To give Georgia to the Spanish. No, Gracias!

Number de 3: The women of Savannah actually saved the city from Spanish troops! Wife of Noble Jones, who owned Wormsloe Plantation in Savannah, gathered all the women and manned the fort until the Spanish retreated into the swamps! You go, girl!

Number 4: The last battle of the War of 1812 was fought in Georgia in a little town called St. Mary’s. The British lost, of course.

Number 5: The first divorce in Georgia was granted in 1801 when Rebecca Echols brought charges against her husband for abuse.

Number la 6: George Gist, or Sequoyah as he is better known as, was the inventor of the Cherokee language which took him twelve years to come up with. His wife though thought it against their beliefs and burned all the notes to it. He rewrote it inside a year.

Number 7: The Texan Lone Star flag was made and designed by Joanna Troutman, a young Georgian romantic who was inspired by Texas' fight for freedom against Mexico.

Number 8: The first governor of Alabama was from Georgia and a Georgian gave California to the United States! We're just all over the place!

Number 9: Georgia was the first state to establish a Department of Agriculture!

Number 10: Piedmont Park is believe to be the site of the first movie theater in Atlanta playing 'Annabelle the Dancer' and 'Mischievous Johnny' and people only had to pay if they liked the movie! I wish we could do the today!

And there are our Georgia facts of the week! I hope you enjoyed today's post and I will be posting some video links later on to make up for what I missed last week!

Thanks again for reading and I'll be here next week!

MJ

Two weeks ago Land of the Trembling Earth Answer: The Okefenokee Swamp or Waycross!
Congrats if you got it right!

This Week's GA Question:

Birthplace of the first African American baseball player!

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For More info:

Know Your Georgia - by C.J. Holleran