North Augusta resident Milledge Murray shared insight on two of his ancestors who played major roles in the early development ...

Jerry Williams, a Savannah physician ... In satellite images, Georgia’s former rice plantations stand out like misplaced puzzle pieces with their grid-like systems of ditches and canals abutting ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The ... at the Race-course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted ...

Here you'll find the ruins of Wormsloe, the oldest standing structure in Savannah and the Colonial estate of Noble Jones, a carpenter who came to Georgia in 1733 with James Oglethorpe and the ...

If you love the movie The Notebook and you live near the coast of South Carolina or Georgia, you can tell your friends you don’t live far from one of the majestic mansions featured in the film.

In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States took place at a racetrack in Savannah ... had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years ...

Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia ... After an 1803 Savannah slave auction, a shipload of kidnapped Africans from what later became Nigeria headed for plantations on St. Simons.

It's a good road, mostly divided and smooth, paralleling the eastern shoreline from Savannah, Georgia ... built as a levee on a rice plantation before the Civil War. I asked the elder Jenkins ...

Originally called the Evergreen Cemetery (and occupying land previously used for a plantation), the Victorian-style cemetery was purchased by the city of Savannah in 1907 and redesigned to its ...

Savannah, Ga., Jan. 16, 1865," to the duties of providing for the well-being of the negroes, and their location upon the plantations, as " Inspector of Settlements and Plantations," is hereby ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...