- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Okefenokee Swamp folklore
- Creator:
- Sommers, Laurie Kay
- Date of Original:
- 2002-07-24
- Subject:
- Okefenokee Swamp (Ga. and Fla.)--Folklore
Swamps--Georgia
Swamps--Florida - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Okefenokee Swamp folklore. The Okefenokee Swamp and environs are a distinctive folk region, shaped by Celtic ethnicity, geographic isolation, and Primitive Baptist religion. The swamp alone covers more than 700 square miles of southeast Georgia and northwest Florida. Indian peoples occupied the "land of the trembling earth" through the early 1800s, when most were driven out or forcibly removed by Europeans. From the early nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, the swamp was home to an independent, self-sufficient community of "crackers," most of whom came to Georgia from North Carolina and were of Scottish and Scots-Irish origin. They scratched out a living through livestock herding, subsistence agriculture, and naval stores.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/okefenokee-swamp-folklore/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Okefenokee Swamp Folklore," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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