250 Years · 50 States · One Historic Milestone
In 1733, James Oglethorpe established the colony of Georgia as a refuge and a buffer betwe...
Read more →On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constituti...
Read more →In the summer and fall of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led his forces in a relen...
Read more →In 1886, Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton created a carbonated syrup that would become Co...
Read more →Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, in the home where he spent...
Read more →The Albany Movement of 1961 and 1962 was one of the first broad-based Civil Rights campaig...
Read more →In 1973, Maynard Jackson became the first African American mayor of Atlanta and of any maj...
Read more →Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1996, welcoming athletes and visitors from arou...
Read more →The Port of Savannah grew into one of the busiest container ports in the United States dur...
Read more →Today, Georgia is home to one of the largest and most diverse economies in the Southeast,...
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