- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Georgia's historic capitals
- Creator:
- Jackson, Edwin L.
- Date of Original:
- 2005-07-28
- Subject:
- Georgia--Capital and capitol
Historic buildings--Georgia
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Jefferson County, Louisville, 33.00154, -82.41124
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Georgia's historic capitals. The gold-covered capitol dome in the Atlanta skyline signifies that the city is home to Georgia's state government. That would seem to make sense, as Atlanta is the largest and best-known city in the state, but interestingly, the size of a city has nothing to do with its designation as a state capital. Of Georgia's five contiguous states, only in South Carolina does the largest city serve as capital. In fact, in only seventeen states is the state capital also the largest city.
GSE identifier: SS2CG2, SS8H4 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/georgias-historic-capitals/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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