New Georgia Encyclopedia: History & Archaeology

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Archaeology and Early History

Georgia History: Overview

Archaeological Periods in Georgia

Paleoindian Period

Paleoindian Period: Overview

Archaic Period

Archaic Period: Overview

Coastal Shell Rings

Indian Pottery

Stallings Island Site

Woodland Period

Woodland Period: Overview

Cane Island Site

Kolomoki Mounds

Rock Mounds and Structures

Swift Creek Culture

Weeden Island Culture

Mississippian Period

Mississippian Period: Overview

Culture of Georgia Indians

Contemporary Georgia Indians

Creek Indian Leaders

Indian Missions

Indian Pottery

Indian Projectile Points

Indian Trails

Indian Warfare

Languages of Georgia Indians

Early History

English and Indian Trade

English Trade in Deerskins and Indian Slaves

Macon Trading Post

Westo Indians

Formation of the Creeks

Creek Indians

Late Prehistoric/Early History Chiefdoms

Late Prehistoric/Early Historic Chiefdoms (ca. A.D. 1300-1850)

Spanish Exploration

Hernando de Soto in Georgia

Spanish Exploration

Spanish Missions

Mission Santa Catalina de Guale

Spanish Missions

Archaeology in Historic Preservation

Society for Georgia Archaeology

Colonial Era, 1733-1775

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Battle of Bloody Marsh

War of Jenkins' Ear

Groups/Organizations

Anglican Church

Creek Indian Leaders

French Presence in Georgia

Women in Colonial Georgia

Yamacraw Indians

People

Johann Martin Boltzius (1703-1765)

Brims (d. 1733)

Archibald Bulloch (1730-1777)

Butler Family

Elijah Clarke (1742-1799)

Samuel Elbert (1740-1788)

Henry Ellis (1721-1806)

Olaudah Equiano in Georgia

George Galphin (ca. 1700-1780)

Button Gwinnett (1735-1777)

Habersham Family

Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1816)

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston (1764-1848)

Malatchi (ca. 1720-1756)

Alexander McGillivray (ca. 1750-1793)

Lachlan McGillivray (1719-1799)

Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806)

William McIntosh (ca. 1778-1825)

Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763)

Samuel Nunes (ca. 1667-ca. 1741)

James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785)

John Reynolds (ca. 1713-1788)

Mordecai Sheftall (1735-1797)

William Stephens (1671-1753)

Telfair Family

Tomochichi (ca. 1644-1739)

Peter Tondee (ca. 1723-1775)

Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

John Wesley (1703-1791)

George Whitefield (1714-1770)

James Wright (1716-1785)

John J. Zubly (1724-1781)

Places

Bethesda

Colonial Coastal Fortifications

Ebenezer

Fort Frederica

Fort King George

Georgia's Historic Capitals

Kiokee Baptist Church

Savannah City Plan

Springfield Baptist Church

Trustee Garden

Wormsloe Plantation

Wrightsborough

Topics

Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

Boundaries of Georgia

Colonial Immigration

Indigo

Rice

Royal Georgia, 1752-1776

Slave Patrols

Slavery in Colonial Georgia

Tabby

Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752

Revolution and Early Republic, 1775-1800

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Battle of Kettle Creek

Constitutional Conventions

Revolutionary War in Georgia

Siege of Savannah

Groups/Organizations

People

Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807)

William Bartram in Georgia

Thomas Brown (1750-1825)

Nathan Brownson (1742-1796)

David Bushnell (1740-1826)

Archibald Campbell (1739-1791)

John Clark (1766-1832)

Elijah Clarke (1742-1799)

Austin Dabney (ca. 1765-1830)

David Emanuel (ca. 1744-1808)

William Ewen (ca. 1720-1776/1777)

William Few Jr. (1748-1828)

Catharine Greene (1755-1814)

Nathanael Greene (1742-1786)

Button Gwinnett (1735-1777)

Lyman Hall (1724-1790)

George Handley (1752-1793)

Nancy Hart (ca. 1735-1830)

Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1816)

Stephen Heard (1740-1815)

John Houstoun (ca. 1747-1796)

Jared Irwin (ca. 1750-1818)

James Jackson (1757-1806)

Noble W. Jones (ca. 1723-1805)

John Martin (ca. 1730-1786)

George Mathews (1739-1812)

John Milledge (1757-1818)

William Pierce (1753-1789)

Casimir Pulaski in Georgia

Major Ridge (ca. 1771-1839)

Daniel Stewart (1761-1829)

Benjamin Taliaferro (1750-1821)

Josiah Tattnall (ca. 1764-1803)

Telfair Family

Edward Telfair (1735-1807)

John Adam Treutlen (1733-1782)

John Twiggs (1750-1816)

George Walton (ca. 1749-1804)

John Wereat (ca. 1733-1799)

Eli Whitney in Georgia

Places

Camp-Meeting Grounds

Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home

Georgia's Historic Capitals

Goose Pond

Petersburg

Trans-Oconee Republic

Topics

Boundaries of Georgia

Royal Georgia, 1752-1776

Slavery in Revolutionary Georgia

Antebellum Era, 1800-1860

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Cherokee Removal

Constitutional Conventions

Ebos Landing

Georgia Platform

Gold Rush

Marquis de Lafayette in Georgia

Land Lottery System

Secession

Seminole Wars

War of 1812 and Georgia

Groups/ Organizations

Cherokee Indians

Creek Indian Leaders

Geechee and Gullah Culture

Slave Women

People

Garnett Andrews (1798-1873)

Daniel Appling (1787-1817)

Alfred Austell (1814-1881)

Francis S. Bartow (1816-1861)

John Macpherson Berrien (1781-1856)

Harrison Berry (1816-ca. 1882)

Elias Boudinot (ca. 1804-1839)

John Brown (ca. 1810-1876)

Butler Family

John Clark (1766-1832)

Howell Cobb (1815-1868)

Thomas R. R. Cobb (1823-1862)

Mark Anthony Cooper (1800-1885)

William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891)

George W. Crawford (1798-1872)

William Harris Crawford (1772-1834)

Henry Cumming (1799-1866)

De Renne Family

DuBignon Family

Peter Early (1773-1817)

James Walker Fannin Jr. (1804-1836)

Charles Rinaldo Floyd (1797-1845)

John Forsyth (1780-1841)

George R. Gilmer (1790-1859)

William Washington Gordon (1796-1842)

John D. Gray (1808-1878)

Benjamin Hill (1823-1882)

William Brown Hodgson (1801-1871)

Hopkins Holsey (ca. 1799-1859)

Herschel Johnson (1812-1880)

Charles C. Jones Jr. (1831-1893)

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)

Roswell King (1765-1844)

Thomas Butler King (1800-1864)

Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798-1859)

LeConte Family

Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867)

Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870)

Charles McDonald (1793-1860)

David B. Mitchell (1766-1837)

Eugenius A. Nisbet (1803-1871)

Oliver H. Prince (1782-1837)

Major Ridge (ca. 1771-1839)

Sidney Root (1824-1897)

John Ross (1790-1866)

William Rabun (1771-1819)

William Schley (1786-1858)

Sequoyah (ca. 1770-ca. 1840)

Thomas Spalding (1774-1851)

Alexander Stephens (1812-1883)

William Bacon Stevens (1815-1887)

Josiah Tattnall (1795-1871)

Telfair Family

Mary Telfair (1791-1875)

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907)

Nelson Tift (1810-1891)

Robert Toombs (1810-1885)

George W. Towns (1801-1854)

Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868)

Joseph Vann (1798-1844)

Hiram Warner (1802-1881)

Eli Whitney in Georgia

W. T. Wofford (1824-1884)

Places

Camp-Meeting Grounds

Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home

Georgia Penitentiary at Milledgeville

Georgia's Historic Capitals

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation

Old Governor's Mansion

Petersburg

State's Rights Hotel

Topics

Antebellum Artisans

Antebellum Industrialization

Antebellum Music

Antebellum Tenancy

Augusta Canal

Boundaries of Georgia

Branch Mint at Dahlonega

Cherokee Phoenix

Cotton

Cotton Gins

Georgia and the Sectional Crisis

Georgia in 1860

Grier's Almanac

Nineteenth-Century Georgia Newspapers

Poor Whites

Railroads

Slave Patrols

Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

Wanderer

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Civil War in Georgia: Overview

Andrews Raid

Atlanta Campaign

Battle of Chickamauga

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Battle of Pickett's Mill

Battle of Resaca

Camilla Massacre

Capture of Jefferson Davis

Civil War Centennial

Civil War on the Chattahoochee River

Constitutional Convention of 1877

Constitutional Conventions

Deportation of Roswell Mill Women

Georgia Secession Convention of 1861

Reconstruction Conventions

Secession

Sherman's Field Order No. 15

Sherman's March to the Sea

Union Blockade and Coastal Occupation in the Civil War

Wilson's Raid

Groups/Organizations

Black Legislators during Reconstruction

Black Troops in Civil War Georgia

Civil War Reenacting

Confederate Veteran Organizations

Freedmen's Bureau

Georgia Civil War Commission

Knights of Labor

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

Nancy Harts Militia

Unionists

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Women during the Civil War

People

Amos T. Akerman (1821-1880)

Edward Porter Alexander (1835-1910)

Eliza Frances Andrews (1840-1931)

Garnett Andrews (1798-1873)

Alfred Austell (1814-1881)

George N. Barnard in Georgia

Francis S. Bartow (1816-1861)

Henry L. Benning (1814-1875)

Berry Benson (1843-1923)

Logan Bleckley (1827-1907)

Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894)

James D. Bulloch (1823-1901)

Rufus Bullock (1834-1907)

Tunis Campbell (1812-1891)

Allen D. Candler (1834-1910)

Howell Cobb (1815-1868)

Alfred H. Colquitt (1824-1894)

Charles Crisp (1845-1896)

Kate Cumming (ca. 1830-1909)

Clement Evans (1833-1911)

John B. Gordon (1832-1904)

Lemuel Grant (1817-1893)

John D. Gray (1808-1878)

William J. Hardee (1815-1873)

Benjamin Hill (1823-1882)

John Henry 'Doc' Holliday (1851-1887)

Lucius Holsey (1842-1920)

Inman Family

Alfred Iverson Jr. (1829-1911)

Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1898)

Charles Jones Jenkins (1805-1883)

Herschel Johnson (1812-1880)

James Johnson (1811-1891)

Carrie Steele Logan (1829-1900)

Jefferson Franklin Long (1836-1901)

James Longstreet (1821-1904)

Henry McDaniel (1836-1926)

Raphael Moses (1812-1893)

Eugenius A. Nisbet (1803-1871)

Thomas Ruger (1833-1907)

Lizzie Rutherford (1833-1873)

Neptune Small (1831-1907)

James M. Smith (1823-1890)

Alexander Stephens (1812-1883)

Josiah Tattnall (1795-1871)

Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907)

Nelson Tift (1810-1891)

Robert Toombs (1810-1885)

Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868)

Hiram Warner (1802-1881)

W. T. Wofford (1824-1884)

Woodrow Wilson in Georgia

Ambrose Wright (1826-1872)

Places

Andersonville Prison

Civil War Cemeteries

Civil War Prisons

Confederate Hospitals

Cyclorama

Fort Pulaski

Georgia Military Institute

Georgia Penitentiary at Milledgeville

Georgia's Historic Capitals

Griswoldville

National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus

Topics

Boundaries of Georgia

Civil War: Atlanta Home Front

Civil War Archaeology

Civil War Dissent

Civil War Heritage Trails

Civil War Industry and Manufacturing

Civil War Journals, Diaries, and Memoirs

Confederate Gold

Confederate Monuments

Confederate Veteran Organizations

Cotton

CSS Savannah

Desertion during the Civil War

Emancipation

Freedmen's Education during Reconstruction

Georgia Constitution

Guerrilla Warfare during the Civil War

Lost Cause Religion

'Marching through Georgia'

Nineteenth-Century Georgia Newspapers

Railroads

Reconstruction in Georgia

Welfare and Poverty during the Civil War

Late Nineteenth Century, 1877-1900

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Atlanta Compromise Speech

Cotton Expositions in Atlanta

Spanish-American War in Georgia

Woolfolk Murder Case

Groups/Organizations

Bibb Manufacturing Company

Farmers' Alliance

Populist Party

People

William Y. Atkinson (1854-1899)

Nellie Peters Black (1851-1919)

Logan Bleckley (1827-1907)

James Blount (1837-1903)

Rufus Bullock (1834-1907)

Henry Rutherford Butler (1862-1931)

Callaway Family

Allen D. Candler (1834-1910)

Asa Candler (1851-1929)

Clement Evans (1833-1911)

Alfred H. Colquitt (1824-1894)

Amanda America Dickson (1849-1893)

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)

Henry O. Flipper (1856-1940)

Julia Flisch (1861-1941)

Francis Fontaine (1845-1901)

John B. Gordon (1832-1904)

Henry W. Grady (1850-1889)

Eliza Ann Grier (1864-1902)

Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927)

Clark Howell (1863-1936)

Benjamin Hunt (1847-1934)

Joel Hurt (1850-1926)

Inman Family

J. William Jones (1836-1909)

Sam Jones (1847-1906)

Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933)

Carrie Steele Logan (1829-1900)

Crawford Long (1815-1878)

E. K. Love (1850-1900)

Henry McDaniel (1836-1926)

William J. Northen (1835-1913)

Mary Latimer McLendon (1840-1921)

George Foster Peabody (1852-1938)

John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888)

Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851-1928)

Hoke Smith (1855-1931)

Joseph M. Terrell (1861-1912)

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907)

Henry Tift (1841-1922)

Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915)

Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922)

Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914)

Places

Grant Park

Inman Park

Topics

African American Archaeology

Boundaries of Georgia

Lynching

Moonshine

Naval Stores Industry

Progressive Era to World War II, 1900-1945

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Atlanta Colored Music Festival Association

Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

Great Depression

Progressive Era

U-boat Attacks during World War II

World War I in Georgia

World War II in Georgia

Groups/Organizations

Civilian Conservation Corps

Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Jeffersonian Publishing Company

Jewish Community of Atlanta

Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century

People

Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940)

Lena Baker Case

Nellie Peters Black (1851-1919)

J. J. Brown (1865-1953)

Eugene Bullard (1895-1961)

Selena Sloan Butler (ca. 1872-1964)

Archibald Butt (1865-1912)

Callaway Family

Howard Coffin (1873-1937)

John Wesley Dobbs (1882-1961)

W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia

Henry O. Flipper (1856-1940)

Julia Flisch (1861-1941)

Thomas Hardwick (1872-1944)

Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927)

Lugenia Burns Hope (1871-1947)

Clark Howell (1863-1936)

Joel Hurt (1850-1926)

Inman Family

Thornwell Jacobs (1877-1956)

Primus E. King (1900-1986)

Charles Lindbergh in Georgia

Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863-1962)

Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)

Helen Douglas Mankin (1894-1956)

Mary Latimer McLendon (1840-1921)

Viola Ross Napier (1881-1962)

William J. Northen (1835-1913)

Hazel Raines (1916-1956)

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)

Arthur F. Raper (1899-1979)

E. D. Rivers (1895-1967)

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia

Ina Dillard Russell (1868-1953)

Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897-1971)

Richard B. Russell Sr. (1861-1938)

Mildred Seydell (1889-1988)

John M. Slaton (1866-1955)

Hoke Smith (1855-1931)

Joseph M. Terrell (1861-1912)

John Donald Wade (1892-1963)

Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922)

Walter White (1893-1955)

Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914)

Emily Woodward (1885-1970)

Clifford Walker (1877-1954)

Places

Auburn Avenue (Sweet Auburn)

Flint River Farms Resettlement Community

Stone Mountain

Techwood Homes

Topics

Boundaries of Georgia

Convict Lease System

Foreign Prisoners of War

Civil Rights and Sunbelt Georgia, 1945-1990

Georgia History: Overview

Events

Albany Movement

Americus Movement

Bus Desegregation in Atlanta

Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Rides

Angelo Herndon Case

Orly Air Crash of 1962

Lemuel Penn Murder

Temple Bombing

Groups/Organizations

Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL)

Contemporary Georgia Indians

Freedom Singers

Great Speckled Bird

Latino Immigration

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Southern Regional Council

Student Movement of the 1960s

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Voter Education Project

People

Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)

William G. Anderson (b. 1927)

Clarence A. Bacote (1906-1981)

Cornelia Bailey (b. 1945)

Julian Bond (b. 1940)

William Bootle (1902-2005)

William Holmes Borders (1905-1993)

Thomas Brewer (1894-1956)

Selena Sloan Butler (ca. 1872-1964)

Callaway Family

James V. Carmichael (1910-1972)

Carter Family

Rosalynn Carter (b. 1927)

Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978)

Communists

John Wesley Dobbs (1882-1961)

Mary Frances Early (b. 1936)

Jim Fowler (b. 1930)

Millard Fuller (1935-2009)

Grace Towns Hamilton (1907-1992)

Roy V. Harris (1895-1985)

Jesse Hill (b. 1927)

Donald Hollowell (1917-2004)

Hamilton Holmes (1941-1995)

Charlayne Hunter-Gault (b. 1942)

Leroy Johnson (b. 1928)

Clarence Jordan (1912-1969)

Hamilton Jordan (1944-2008)

Vernon Jordan (b. 1935)

Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011)

King Family

C. B. King (1923-1988)

Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Preston King (b. 1936)

Slater King (1927-1969)

Bert Lance (b. 1931)

Mills B. Lane Jr. (1912-1989)

W. W. Law (1923-2002)

John Lewis (b. 1940)

Joseph Lowery (b. 1924)

Benjamin Mays (ca. 1894-1984)

Charles McCartney ('Goat Man') (1901-1998)

Ralph McGill (1898-1969)

Sam Nunn (b. 1938)

Frances Pauley (1905-2003)

Lemuel Penn Murder

Hazel Raines (1916-1956)

Bernice Johnson Reagon (b. 1942)

Jacob Rothschild (1911-1973)

Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897-1971)

Earl T. Shinhoster (1950-2000)

Claude Sitton (b. 1925)

Jesse O. Thomas

Dorothy Rogers Tilly (1883-1970)

Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996)

W. J. Usery Jr. (b. 1923)

A. T. Walden (1885-1965)

Horace T. Ward (b. 1927)

Charles Weltner (1927-1992)

Hosea Williams (1926-2000)

Andrew Young (b. 1932)

Jean Childs Young (1933-1994)

Places

Albany Civil Rights Institute

Auburn Avenue (Sweet Auburn)

First African Baptist Church

King Center

Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in Georgia

Topics

The Black Church in Atlanta Politics

Boundaries of Georgia

Desegregation of Higher Education

King Papers

Mallard Murder Case

Ministers' Manifesto

Segregation

Historians/Historical Organizations

Historians

Clarence A. Bacote (1906-1981)

Malcolm Bell Jr. (1913-2001)

John Blassingame (1940-2000)

Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004)

Edward J. Cashin (1927-2007)

Kenneth Coleman (1916-1999)

E. Merton Coulter (1890-1981)

W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia

Charles C. Jones Jr. (1831-1893)

Lucian Lamar Knight (1868-1933)

Hugh McCall

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934)

Albert B. Saye (1912-1989)

Phinizy Spalding (1930-1994)

William Bacon Stevens (1815-1887)

C. Mildred Thompson (1881-1975)

John Donald Wade (1892-1963)

Historical Organizations (see also Historic Preservation)

Atlanta History Center

Civil War Heritage Trails

Community Preservation

Genealogy

Georgia Civil War Commission

Georgia Archives

Georgia Historical Commission

Georgia Historical Society

Historic Chattahoochee Commission

History of Historic Preservation

Publications

Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South

Georgia Historical Quarterly

Pulitzer Prizes of Georgia

Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History

Sites and Museums

Albany Civil Rights Institute

William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Chief Vann House

Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home

Crypt of Civilization

Cyclorama

Ebenezer Baptist Church

Georgia Guidestones

Georgia Women of Achievement

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum

Heritage Tourism

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation

Living History Museums

National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus

Time Capsules

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