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The Yazoo land fraud is often conflated with the Pine Barrens speculation, another land scandal that took place in east Georgia at about the same time. In this case, the state's high-ranking officials were making multiple gifts of land grants for the same parcels, resulting in the issuance of grants totaling much more land than was available in ...
Since 1976, the state of Georgia has owned most of its 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of mostly unspoiled wilderness. Hogg Hummock, also known as Hog Hammock, sits on less than a square ...
Reachable only by boat, the island is mostly owned by the state of Georgia. The community’s population has shrunk in recent decades. Some families have sold land to outsiders who built vacation ...
The 1832 Land Lottery was the sixth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to appropriate Cherokee and Muscogee land to settlers. The 1832 lottery was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by acts of December 21, 1830
They brought together 19 African-American families who raised the money to purchase the land. [2] The settlement is located about 130 miles (210 kilometres) south of Atlanta . [ 5 ] As of July 2023, the settlement consists of a dilapidated campground , and its founders are working on establishing roads and utility services before beginning ...
Notably, the new document prohibited land sales similar to those which prompted the Yazoo fraud. [12] The 1802 cession by which Georgia transferred its western lands to the federal government rendered much of this provision moot, though it still applied to those lands Georgia eventually gained following the removal of the Cherokee people. [13]
The Gold Lottery of 1832 was the seventh lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to redistribute annexed Cherokee land. It was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by an act of December 24, 1831 a few years after the start of the Georgia Gold Rush .
Bellingham has agreed to buy 116 acres of land for Greenways trail connections and possibly to add a park on the city’s northeast side, Parks and Recreations Department officials said.