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Georgia Archives – official Archives of the State of Georgia; Boston Public Library, Map Center. Maps of Georgia Archived May 29, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, various dates. Local History & Genealogy Reference Services, "Georgia", Resources for Local History and Genealogy by State, Bibliographies & Guides, Washington DC: Library of Congress
A depiction of what might be Florida from the 1502 Cantino map Timucua Indians at a column erected by the French in 1562 A 1527 map by Vesconte Maggiolo showing the east coast of North America with "Tera Florida" at the top and "Lavoradore" at the bottom. A 1591 map of Florida by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues.
Until the mid-20th century, Florida was the least-populous state in the southern United States. In 1900, its population was only 528,542, of whom nearly 44% were African American, the same proportion as before the Civil War. [57] Forty thousand blacks, roughly one-fifth of their 1900 population levels in Florida, left the state in the Great ...
March 3: Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th U.S. state. May 26: Florida Legislature is formed succeeding the Florida Territorial Legislative Council. June 25: Florida's first elected governor, William Dunn Moseley takes office. 1848 January 8: Holmes County is established. 1849 January 18: Putnam County is established.
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and eighth most populous.
The slaveholders in Georgia and the rest of the South became furious over this state of affairs as slaves continued to escape to Florida. [ 4 ] : 18–22 In 1818, after years of additional conflicts involving natives, fugitive slaves, and settlers, General Andrew Jackson wrote to President James Monroe , who had been inaugurated in March 1817 ...
In 1776 a provincial congress had declared independence and created a constitution for the new state. Georgia also served as the staging ground for several important raids into British-controlled Florida. [16] In 1777 the original eight counties of the state of Georgia were created. Prior to that Georgia had been divided into local government ...
A sketch map published in 1898 showing the territorial changes of "West Florida" [17] p 2. The United States did not recognize the independence of the Republic of West Florida, and on October 27, 1810, James Madison proclaimed that the United States should take possession of it, on the basis that it was part of the Louisiana Purchase. [18]