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A 2003 research project undertaken by University of Georgia researchers Ervan G. Garrison, Sherri L. Littman, and Megan Mitchell, looked at and reported on fossils and artefacts associated with Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, which is located more than 19 miles (31 km) beyond today's shoreline, and 60 to 70 feet (21 m) (18 to 21 m) below ...
On January 2, 1755, Georgia officially ceased to be a proprietary colony and became a royal colony. From 1732 until 1758, the minor civil divisions were districts and towns. In 1758, without Indian permission, the Province of Georgia was divided into eight parishes by the Act of the Assembly of Georgia on March 15.
Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes first colony to issue paper money. Spain begins to colonise Texas. 1691 – The Province of Carolina passes a law for the better ordering of slaves. 1692 – First of the Salem witch trials. 1693 – Rice culture introduced in the Province of Carolina.
In Reconstruction-era cities like Savannah, Georgia, intricate codes of racial etiquette began to unravel almost immediately after the war with the onset of emancipation. [257] The local police forces that had been available in the antebellum South, depleted during the war, could not enforce the racial order as they had before. [257]
The Georgia Experiment was the colonial-era policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the Georgia Colony. At the urging of Georgia's proprietor , General James Oglethorpe , and his fellow colonial trustees, the British Parliament formally codified prohibition in 1735, three years after the colony's founding.
A grand jury recommended abolishing a small Alabama police department because of a “rampant culture of corruption” after charging five officers with a variety of crimes, officials announced ...
Georgia state capital relocated from Savannah to Augusta. [2] 1779 Town Hall built. [2] Siege of Savannah. [2] 1782 British occupation ends. [4] Georgia state capital relocated to Savannah from Augusta. [4] 1786 Georgia state capital relocated again from Savannah to Augusta. [4] Chatham Artillery established. [2] 1788 Town becomes part of the U ...
In North America, the Toronto Police was founded in Canada in 1834, one of the first municipal police departments on that continent, followed by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City both founded in 1838. In the United States, the first organized police service was established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854.