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As of 2021, 85.62% (8,711,102) of Georgia residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 7.82% (795,646) spoke Spanish, and 6.55% (666,849) spoke languages other than English or Spanish at home, with the most common of which were Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean.
This is a list of Georgia companies, current and former businesses whose headquarters are, or were, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Companies based in Georgia [ edit ]
Georgia was incorporated into what would soon become the Soviet Union. Soviet rule was firmly established only after local insurrections were defeated. [86] Georgia would remain an unindustrialized periphery of the USSR until the first five-year plan (1928–1932), when it became a major centre for textile goods.
Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
Georgia Historical Quarterly 77.2 (1993): 286-309. online; Burns, Rebecca. Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot (U of Georgia Press, 2009). Davis, Harold E. Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, A Brave Beautiful City. (U of Alabama Press, 1990). Dittmer, John. Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (1977) Dorsey ...
1843 – Town of Marthasville incorporated. [1] 1845 Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Marthasville) begins operating. [1] Marthasville renamed "Atlanta." [1] 1846 – Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah. [1] 1847 – Town of Atlanta incorporated. [3] 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor. 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor. 1850 ...
The Mansell House and Gardens is a 1912 Queen Anne style home that serves as a special event facility in Alpharetta. It is home to the Alpharetta Historical Society. [39] The Milton Log Cabin was built by Future Farmers of America students during the 1934–35 school year and resembles life during the late 19th century. [citation needed]
Georgia borders the North Atlantic Ocean in the Southeastern United States. Georgia was the fourth of the original 13 states to approve the Constitution of the United States of America on January 2, 1788. Georgia joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, and was readmitted to the Union in 1870.