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The Fort Hollingsworth–White House is a well-preserved example of an early frontier fort built near Alto, Georgia in the late 18th century. The fort was built around 1793 by Jacob Hollingsworth on newly opened lands resulting from treaties with the Cherokee Nation, and was meant to protect the settlers in the area. The fort was adapted as a ...
One of the oldest tabby concrete buildings in Georgia Wild Heron: near Savannah: 1756 Plantation house One of the oldest documented houses in Georgia [1] [2] Jerusalem Lutheran Church: Ebenezer: 1769 Church Oldest church building in Georgia and the oldest continuous Lutheran congregation in the U.S. [3] Glen Echo: Ellabell: 1773 House Eppinger ...
Cornwallis believed that they would immediately accept it and so begin investing in improving their land. In 1790, the Court of Directors issued a ten-year (decennial) settlement to the zamindars, which was made permanent in 1793. [citation needed] By the Permanent Settlement Act of 1793, their right to keep armed forces was removed.
A permanent settlement of 200 soldiers and artisans led by Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere, who had accompanied Ribault on a previous expedition. With help from the Timucua Indians, the colonists began building a village and fort on the river's south bank and named the area La Caroline after Charles IX.
Although Savannah was the first permanent colonial settlement in modern-day Georgia, it was far from the first European encroachment into Yamasee/Creek/Guale lands. As early as the 16th century, Spanish missions and presidios (military outposts) were established all along the Georgia coast.
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Georgia contributed nearly one hundred twenty thousand soldiers to the Confederacy, with about five thousand Georgians (both black and white) joining the Union Army. The first major battle in the state was the Battle of Chickamauga , a Confederate victory, and the last major Confederate victory in the west.
The new Georgia colony was authorized under a grant from George II to a group constituted by Oglethorpe as the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees. Oglethorpe's plan for settlement of the new colony had been in the works since 1730, three years before the founding of Savannah.