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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Rockmart is located at According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) (0.69%) is water.
By the middle of the twentieth century, hundreds of stamp clubs had formed throughout the United States, often affiliated with large organizations, such as the American Philatelic Society or the American Topical Association. Many published their own scholarly articles or journals, while others advertised in the journals of larger philatelic ...
In 1963, the British Antarctic Territory was formed, leaving only the island groups of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. From 1963 to 1979, [2] South Georgia had its own stamps simply marked South Georgia. From 1980 to 1985, South Georgia again used stamps of the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
The Rockport area was called Goose River, but was renamed Rockport in 1852 and separated from Camden in 1891. Its small harbor was an early shipbuilding center, and in the 19th century became an important center of ice harvesting and the extraction of lime .
Downtown Historic District (AugustaGA.gov) [permanent dead link ] — former district boundaries map (Note: map boundaries out-of-date, district now extends south to Walton Way) Augusta Downtown Historic District; Historic Downtown Monuments — Augusta Chronicle Augusta history web series; Boyhood Home of Woodrow Wilson
Due to the existence of another Florence in Georgia, the town adopted the name of Apalachee around 1896 from the name of the nearby Apalachee River, [3] [4] which in turn was named for Apalachee Indians. [6] By 1900, the community had 47 inhabitants. [7] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Apalachee as a town in August 1907. [3] [4] [8]
Southwest Georgia is a fourteen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, [1] bordering Alabama and Florida. Colloquially referred to as SOWEGA, the region is anchored by Albany—its most populous city and the region's sole metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 United States census, Southwest Georgia's population was 352,426.