Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1733/00/00 | James Edward Oglethorpe | Founder | Gen James Oglethorpe establishes the Colony of Georgia, named for King George II of England, and lays out its first city, Savannah. |
Physiographic Features | Type | AsNotedIn |
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East Gulf Coastal Plain | Physiographic Section |
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Panola Mountain | Mountain | |
Piedmont Lowlands | Physiographic Section |
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Sea Islands | Archipelago |
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The Golden Isles of Georgia | Region |
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Particulars for Georgia: | |
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Locale Type | US State |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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Deliverance (book) | Novel | James Dickey | "Deliverance" is set on the fictional Cahulawassee River in the north Georgia wilderness. | |
Deliverance (film) | Film | John Boorman | "Deliverance" is set on the fictional Cahulawassee River in the north Georgia wilderness. | |
Sherman's March | Film | Ross McElwee | Filming Location | |
The Color Purple | Book | Alice Walker | The Color Purple is set in rural Georgia during the first half of the twentieth century | |
The Color Purple | Film | Steven Spielberg | The Color Purple is set in rural Georgia during the first half of the twentieth century | |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (book) | Novel | Carson McCullers | ||
The Ice Palace (short story) | Short Story |
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F Scott Fitzgerald | "The Ice Palace" begins in the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia. |
The Jelly-Bean (short story) | Short Story |
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F Scott Fitzgerald | "The Jelly-Bean" is set in a little city of 40,000 that has dozed sleepily for 40,000 years in southern Georgia. |
The March: A Novel | Novel |
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E L Doctorow | |
Tobacco Road | Film |
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John Ford | "Tobacco Road" is set in rural Georgia, 1941 |