History About Georgia

    The largest of the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River and the youngest of the 13 former English colonies is Georgia. Georgia was founded in 1732.  By the mid-19th century, Georgia had the most plantions in the South. In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia, captured Atlanta and began his March to the Sea.

    Georgia's landscape varies greatly as it sweeps from the Appalachian Mountains in the north to the marshes of the Atlantic coast on the southeast to the Okefenokee Swamp on the south. Georgia is the country's number-one producer of peanuts, pecans and peaches and vidalia onions, known as the sweetest onions in the world, can only been grown in the fields around Vidalia and Glennville. Another sweet treat from the Peach State is Coca-Cola, which was invented in Atlanta in 1886.