Georgia : the empire state of the South

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EORGIA, the thirteenth Colony, wa founded by England for two purpose . pain owned Florida and claimed to Beaufort, outh Carolina. It had e tab a;;~~~ lished mi sions on the islands off the coast and a few on the mainland. This was a constant threat to the prosperou colony of South Carolina. The French had edged in from the Mi si ippi River and established themselves as far as Fort Toulou e in the present Alabama. The Indians had swept into outh Carolina and terrified the inhabitants in the Yamassee War in 1715. To pre erve that colony England needed a military colony.
About the same time there was a religiou revival in England and the attention of Parliament was drawn to the cond ition of the honest poor people. General James Oglethorpe, a man of wealth and a memb r of Parliament, was appointed to look into the welfare of these people. His recommendation that a home be created for them in the ew World , combined with the nece sity for a military colony, cau ed Parliament to found Georgia. Oglethorpe was appointed to take the coloni ts to America.
Georgia wa the only colony founded for philanthropic and military purpo e . Its charter provided that it boundaries should extend from the Atlantic Ocean and the avannah River to the South Sea . It wa the on ly colon in 1 hich rum and slavery were forbidden.

Ocmulgee Monument, with largest collection of Indian relics in the world . . . Macon.

General Oglethorpe landed at avannah, Georgia, Feb. 12, 1733, with hi band of turd y, indu tri ou colonist who had been carefull y elected. By diplomacy and the promi e of friendship, he concluded a treaty with the Creek Chief Tomochichi and not only secured land but won the Indians as allies again t the paniards. The claim of Spain were silenced at the Battle of Bl oody Marsh in 1742, a decisive battle becau e it ended forever pani h expan ion in America.

Gradual! y Georgia made treatie with the Indians, securing with

each a ce sion of land from river to river until in 1825, Georgia

reached the Chattahoochee. The

. then promised to remove the

Indian in exchange for the land from the Chattahoochee to the

Mi is ippi.

Georgia aided vigorou ly in the Revoluti on again t England and was the fourth tate to ratify the Con titution, one of the three to do o unanimou ly.

With the exception of the fratricidal trife of the 1860's and its ubseq uent reconstruction, Georgia has prospered continuou sly. G orgia led the states in education by creating the fir t state-owned niver ity. We leyan was the first ollege, in the world, to grant degree to women. The first orphan ' home, Bethesda, ' a located in Georgi a and the fir t Protestant unday chool in America wa organized in avannah. Georgia gave to the world the rliscovery of the u e of ether for anaesthetic purposes in urgical operations. A Georgia hip, the Savannah, wa the fir t ve sel to use steam power in cro sing the ocean.

Georgia is the large t state ea t of the Mi sissippi River. Georgia compri es an area of 58,876 square mile , with a population of

World's largest granite monolith ... Stone Mountain.

3,585,320. The tate ranks twentieth in total area. The Blue Ridge chain of the Appalachian Mountain ri e to a height of 5,000 feet. Covered with virgin fore t , intermingled with vari-colored azaleas and rhododendron, the mountain slope gently to the fertile plain of the Piedmont ection and on to the hundred mile coast, dotted with golden i le . Georgia has the large t xpo ed body of solid granite in the world, tone Mountain, and the large t undrained swamp in the . . Okefenokee wamp, luring touri t and cientists to explore it interior. It has Warm pring with it flow of 1 800 gallon per minute, principal clinic in the world for treatment of infantile paraly i . It mountains have inexhau tible trata of marble, fifty-two known mineral and many emi-preciou ton .
Georgia ha e\en of the nine po ible climatic zone in the un troke are unknown, but v getable grow in outdoor garden and livestock graze in green pa ture the year round. Records how that Georgia has a greater variety of oil products than any other tate. This tate tarted the peach industry by using refrigeration in hipping peache . It excels in watermelons, peanuts, pecan and tobacco. The cotton gin wa invented in Georgia. It fore ts, with 163 pe ie of tree , furni h material for it naval tores, pulpwood and paper indu try.
Georgia wa the fir t tate to build a railroad, which it till own . Over 6,021 mile of main trackage erve Georgia needs through the 35 railroad trunk lines operating in the tate. The tate owns twentytwo parks ~ hich give year-round playgrounds.
Georgia ha dependable labor; adequate rainfall; cheap fuel; vast developed and potential hydro-electric power, and seaports with deep channels. It i verily the Empire tate of the outh.

EORGIA offers the perfect pla ground or every vacationer . . . from the mountain lakes and tream to th placid bea he on the seacoa t. urn r ous re ort are located in fa cinating, historical settin g . Fishing

is available iu all the beautiful tate Park . Golf co ur e are plentiful . . . and facilitie. for every port. Whether yo u're alone or with the famil y, yo u will find that GEORGIA provide vacation for EVERYO E.

Agricultural development i manifested over a wid sco pe. In 1950 there were 198,237 farms in the
valued at 1,114 506,000. More than two-third of the farms have electricity there are 75,162 farm tractors, 66,823 farm motor truck . Georgia' idea l climatic co nditions re ult in its fabulous ability to abundanti produce Corn, Cotton, Pimiento Cowpea Ha , Le pedeza. Oat , Peache , P eanut , Pear . Pecans, Potatoe , Rye, Cane. Yam , Watermelon , oy Bean Tobacco, elvet Bean , Wheat and numerou truck crops.

Georgia' cash farm rece ipt 111 1953 were 651,924,000.

With over 1 500,000 head of cattle and 2 000 000 hoas Georaia

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farm er have developed enormou livestock sa l . Georgia produces

more cattle and ha more meat packing plant than an y other outh-

eastern tate. Georgia' broiler and co mmercial hatchery industries are the large t in the ' orld. There are over 8,000,000 chicken on Georgia farm . Broiler production brings the tate an annual a h income of
100,000,000.
Georgia's dairy product furni shed 79,000,000 cash income to the farm er of the tate in 1953.
Georgia lead the outh in the producti on of oft wood lumber, and ranks fourth in the nation in total lumber production. Georgia is one of the leading tate. in pulp wood production, which i a ba i for the paper and chemical industry. And from its pine tree , Georgia provide 727< of the national supply of gum naval stores.
Georgia is a GREAT and truly ver atile agricultural state.

Unloading cotton

EORGIA rank fourth in the nited tales in the

manufacture of cotton product

. it mo t

important indu trial classification. ext in dollar-

value i the production of food product and its

kindred line .

Other leading indu strie are colton seed oil, meal and cake, fertilizer , machiner y, tran portati on equipment, leather, furniture, cand y, wearing ap parel clay product , cement, and the development of natural mineral resource . alue of her manufac tured product i $4,000,000,000 annuall y.

Georgia's labor pool i large, ver atile, ea il y adaptable to new trades and crafts. With an abundant year ' round water uppl y, factori e can operate on around-the-clock efficiency. The tate ha been a~ding new industrie at the rate of 200 a year.

Georgia's mild climate make it po sible to maintain production at high levels over a 12-month cycle.

The far-reaching CHE ILLE industry was originated in Dalton Georaia in 1896.

One of Georgia's oldest is the EA FOOD industry. Operating on the Atlantic Coa t, these producers have a combined ales totaling over 20,000,000 yearly. With expanding air freight service, this 111dustry will develop till more.
The production of electricity for power lines i be~ng ever increased, with new dam under constructiOn today. In 1953, the utilities produced an estimated 7,090 000,000 kilowatt hour . Low industrial rates make it possible for new firms to operate economically.
To encourage the increasing flow of new industries to Georgia, the General Assembly has made the state's tax structure the most advantageous in the So utheast .
Georgia is indeed rich in natural re ources . rich in opportunities. Industry thrives in Geor~ia _and a friendly welcome is extended to new m dustries who can profitably utilize Georgia's vast facilities.

ODAY' indu trial trend i toward balanced decentralization. Today's competiti e market offer adva ntage only to the industr that favorabl y combine its manufacturing facilities with needed re-
ources- I L e tablished outlets.
Few tate provid e uch a wealth of natural r e ource . Few state offer the di versity of Geor gia background. Here are fact and fi gure that Geo rgia is proud to pre ent:

AGRICULTURAL GEORGIA
(1 9 54 )

Farm land. ac res _.

25 ,75 1,055

Num be r of farms _---------------------------------Average value per farm ________ ----------------------

198 191 5.336

Farm crops, total value ........ ---------------------- 333,528,000

umber of farm trac tors _____ --------------- ______

75,162

umber of farm trucks -----------------------------um ber of farm with electricity -------------

66,823 149,323

Cotto n crop Corn ......

--- ---- -------------------- ...... $120,192,000 50,391,000

T obacco

58,569,000

Peanuts

30,171 ,000

Peaches

10,080,000

P ecans _________ ... ------------------------------------- 5,689,000

Watermel ons _____ ----------------------------------------- 3,388,000

Vegetables --------------------------------------------------- 11,873,000

MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS
(1954)
All product - value ----------------------------------$3,737,000,000 Apparel . ---------- ------------------------------------- $263 ,000,000 Chemical _-------- ------------------------------------- 172,000,000 Food __ _ __ .. ___________ ------------------------- 851,000,000 Leather ________ ------------------------------------------- 19,000,000 Paper , Pulp ______ .. ---------------- ---------------------- $239,000,000 P etroleum , Coal Products .__________________________ 40,000,000 Printin g, Publi hing, etc... --------------------- 74,000,000 Rubber Products ------------------------------------- 4,000 000 T extile ------------------------------------------------------- 1,106,000,000 Tobacco ---------- --------------------------------------- 1,000,000

Durable Goods

Lumber

$255,000,000

Furniture _____ --------------------------------------------tone - Clay - Glass ___ -------------------------

6 7, 000 ,000 7 2,000 ,000

Machiner y --------------------------- -------------------- 54,000,000

Electrical Machinery _____ ---------------------------- 15,000,000

Tran portati on Equipment ------------ ---------- $373,000,000

Instrument --------- -------------- -------------------- 2,000,000 Primary Metals -------------------------------------------- $56,000,000

Fabricated Metals ------------------------------------- $50,000,000

Mi scellaneous

2 4,000 ,000

Production Value

MINERALS

$36,000,000

POULTRY AND LIVESTOCK
(1 954)

Broilers, eggs, hatcher y chicks ----------------Cattle and hog --------------------------------------Milk and dairy product --------------------------

146 ,256 ,006 98,000,000 55,000,000

For additional specific data and in/ormation, write to: GEORGIA DEPARTMEN T O F COMMERCE
SCOTT CANDLER, Secretary 100 STATE CAPITOL, Atla nta , Geo rgia