- Collection:
- Cotten Alston Photographs, 1972-1998, undated
- Title:
- Okefenokee Swamp
- Creator:
- Alston, Cotten (Robert Cotten), 1945-
- Date of Original:
- 1972/1998
- Subject:
- Swamps--Georgia--Charlton County
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Ware County, Okefenokee Swamp, 30.6668928, -82.3331791 - Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of the Okefenokee Swamp in Charlton County, Georgia.
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was formed in 1937 with the purpose of protecting the Okefenokee Swamp. Okefenokee translates from Native American as "Land of the trembling earth," the swamp covers 438,000 acres over both Georgia and a small part of Florida, mostly lying in Georgia's Ware and Charlton Counties. The Okefenokee Swamp Park was formally opened in 1946. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 247.023.001
ahc0247023001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll2/id/1745
- Extent:
- 35 mm
- Original Collection:
- Cotten Alston photographs, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
