United States, Georgia, Spalding County, Griffin, 33.24678, -84.26409Omahen, Sharon2005-12-10Encyclopedia article about the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin. Since 1888 the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin has played an important role in the development of modern agriculture in the South. Located forty miles south of Atlanta, in Spalding County, the station was established as a result of the federal Hatch Act of 1887, which established a national network of agricultural experiment stations. Spalding County citizens lobbied for the experiment station to be located in their county on land formerly known as the Bates Farm. Early research focused on fertilizers and soil erosion, but eventually a complete program of agricultural and environmental science research developed. The first director of the station was William Louis Jones, a scientist and journalist.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Research institutes--Georgia--GriffinBiological stations--Georgia--GriffinUniversity of Georgia. Georgia Agricultural Experiment StationsGeorgia Experiment StationAgriculture--GeorgiaGeorgia Experiment Station, GriffinText