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A letter by George Whitefield to a friend to update him on his progress on his orphan house in Savannah.

The Sanborn Fire Insurance maps were originally given to the Library of Congress to document the history of Athens. These maps are significant because they show a detailed picture of not only buildings but in some causes water mains and other…

A drawing of the orphan-house and the area surrounding it. There is a religious inscription at the bottom of the drawing that says "Behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed". There are 14 buildings included in the perspective…

At the beginning of its time, Athens, Georgia was nothing more than a trade stop named ‘Cedar Shoals’. In 1785, the small settlement was changed when the Georgia General Assembly chartered the University of Georgia, making the school the first…

The history of Savannah beginning with its settlement, and going on to recount the development of the city.

Panel title: A guide to your southern region national forests : the national forests, America's great outdoors. "Constructed by automated methods in 1994 in the Regional Office, U.S. Forest Service, Atlanta, Georgia, from USGS 1:2,000,000 DLG data,…

Scale 1:285,120. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 132.7 Map of Bartow, Cherokee, Paulding, Cobb, and Fulton counties, Georgia, showing location and date of battles, towns, roads, railroads, entrenchments, drainage, and relief by hachures. Description…

Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Title in lower right margin: Georgia. Compiled in 1963. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.