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The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews [1] and the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia politicians sold large tracts of territory in the Yazoo lands, in what are now portions of the present-day states of ...
Yazoo lands. Coordinates: 32.9°N 88.3°W. Map showing the Yazoo lands as "Disputed until 1802 by Georgia and the United States". The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi. [1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the ...
Country. United States. State. Georgia. Freedom is a settlement in the U.S. state of Georgia established in September 2020, in the wake of a breakdown of race relations after the killing of several African Americans, including the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. [1] It was created by 19 African-American families who together purchased 96.71 ...
Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 719 total.
Pine Barrens speculation. From 1789 to 1796, Georgia governors George Walton, Edward Telfair, and George Mathews, while in office, made gifts of land grants covering more than three times as much land as Georgia then contained. In all, they made grants of 29,097,866 acres (117,755 km 2) of land in counties that consisted of only 8,717,960 acres ...
The Compact of 1802, formally Articles of Agreement and Cession, was a compact between the United States and the state of Georgia entered into on April 24, 1802. In it, the United States paid Georgia 1.25 million U.S. dollars for its central and western lands (the Yazoo lands, now Alabama and Mississippi, respectively), and promised that the U.S. government would extinguish American Indian ...
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