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Toombs County, Georgia Firsts

Toombs County Historical Marker

Appling Bleckley Emanuel Candler Dodge Evans Jeff Davis Johnson Laurens Montgomery Tattnall Wayne Toombs Treutlen Wheeler Telfair Wilcox

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Georgia Firsts

Georgia Firsts

  1.   - Early, Terrell, Randolph, Mitchell, Sumter and Worth Counties, world's largest producers of peanuts. (Blds. Ga.)
  2.   - Georgia was the first colony to cultivate grapes.
  3.   - The Elberta peach, developed by Samuel Rumph and named for his wife, greatly popularized peaches in northern markets.
  4.   - Georgia was the first state to create a state department of agriculture.
  5.   - Colquitt, Brooks and Thomas Counties, largest producers of watermelons. (Blds. Ga.)
  6.   - World's largest producers of peaches are Meriwether, Upson, Peach and Macon Counties. (Blds. Ga.)
  7.   - First woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree. Wesleyan College
  8.   - First woman to argue a case before the Georgia Supreme Court is Viola Ross Napier.
  9.   - South Georgia and Coastal section world's largest production of naval stores. (Blds. Ga.)
  10.   - First baptism in America, Peter and Maria, Indian guides, Ocmulgee River, Macon. (Blds. Ga.)
    Savannah, Georgia is also a city of firsts.
  11.   - First silk from the colonies was shipped from Savannah and made into a dress for the Queen of England. Savannah, Georgia.
  12. 1721 - First British settlement in what will be Georgia is Fort King George at the mouth of the Altamaha River, built by Colonel John Barnwell, of South Carolina.
  13. 1730 - First written mention of Georgia. Earl of Egmont's diary. Georgia purchased Egmont's Journal of the Transaction of the Trustees for $16,000 in 1946. Egmont's Journal is known as Georgia's birth certificate. February 13, 1730.
  14. 1733 - First capital of 13th colony and later of Georgia, 1733. Savannah, Georgia.
  15. 1733 - First agricultural experiment farm and station were established at Savannah in 1735. The Trustees Garden. February, 1733. Savannah, Georgia.
  16. 1733 - First recorded English birth in Georgia is the birth of Georgia Close. March 17, 1733.
  17. 1733 - First recorded English death in Georgia is the death of Dr. William Cox. April 6, 1733.
  18. 1733 - In February 1777 John Adam Treutlen was on the drafting committee of Georgia's first constitution. On May 8, 1777, the immensely popular Treutlen was elected by a wide margin as Georgia's first governor under the new constitution.
  19. 1733 - Christ Church was founded in 1733. The third rector of the parish, from 1736-1737, was John Wesley. He taught the first Sunday school in America for children. In 1737, he published the first English hymnal in America which included a collection of psalms and hymns.
  20. 1733 - Forty-one Jews from London arrive in Savannah and establish the first Jewish community in the South. (JMoF)
  21. 1733 - First court in Georgia is convened by James Edward Oglethorpe. July 7, 1733.
  22. 1734 - First City Planned on a System of Squares in North America.
  23. 1735 - First Moravian Church in North America , 1735. Savannah, Georgia.
  24. 1735 - Jewish Congregation in the South. Savannah dedicates its synagogue, Mickveh Israel, and a cemetery. (JMoF)
  25. 1736 - First Protestant Sunday School in America was established in Savannah in 1736, at Christ Church, as was the first orphanage.
  26. 1736 - First Lighthouse on the South Atlantic Coast. Tybee Island, an Atlantic Ocean barrier island, located only 20 minutes from historic Savannah, Georgia became the site of the first lighthouse to be erected on the South Atlantic coast in 1736.
  27. 1736 - First golf course in American was constructed by once wealthy landowners from the Scottish Highlands who settled at the present site of Darien, Georgia. (Ga.Alm.)
  28. 1751 - First pension, William Stephens retires and becomes the first person to receive a pension from Georgia. April, 1751.
  29. 1754 - First royal governor of Georgia, John Reynolds, arrives at Savannah. October 29,1754.
  30. 1754 - First royal governor of Georgia, John Reynolds, takes the oath of office. October 31,1754.
  31. 1754 - First Assembly under the British Crown meets at Savannah. January 7, 1755.
  32. 1754 - First law passed by the Assembly provides for punishment of anyone who questions the decisions of the Assembly.
  33. 1763 - First newspaper in Georgia was the Georgia Gazette, founded in Savannah. April 7, 1763. (W.B.)
  34. 1764 - Sugar Act passed. First serious dispute between the colonies and Great Britain. April 5, 1764.
  35. 1765 - The Liberty Boys meet at Machenry's Tavern for their first meeting. November 6, 1765.
  36. 1770 - First seizure of a British ship at sea was accomplished by Joseph Habersham and Captain Bowen. They take Captain Maitland's armed schooner which is carrying powder. Georgia retains 9,000 pounds and sends 5,000 pounds to the Continental Army. July 10, 1775.
  37. 1773 - First black Baptist in Georgia is George Liele. In 1773, he was licensed to preach to slaves on plantations along the Savannah River, in Georgia and South Carolina.
  38. 1777 - First elected governor by the First House of Assembly is John Adam Treutlen. May 8, 1777. (J.A.T.Ga.1st.G.)
  39. 1777 - First Georgia State Constitution adopted. February 5, 1777. (Ga.S.B.) Washington, Georgia is also a city of firsts:
  40. 1780 - First city in the nation to be incorporated in the name of George Washington. Washington, Georgia
  41. 1783 - First Baptist church in upper Georgia at Fishing Creek.
  42. 1785 - First exportation of American cattle were from Savannah in 1785. Savannah, Georgia.
  43. 1785 - First state to charter a state university: The University of Georgia, founded in 1785.
  44. 1787 - First Methodist Church in Georgia was organized at Grant's Meeting House in Wilkes County.
  45. 1788 - First Baptist Church in Savannah is believed to be the first African-American church in the United States. Andrew Bryan, a slave, is ordained as a baptist minister. Bryan gains his freedom when his master dies, and becomes the minister of the First African Baptist Church of Savannah with a congregation of more than 500. (H.F.A.B.C.)
  46. 1788 - First Episcopal conference not under the Church of England. Washington, Georgia
  47. 1790 - First Presbyterian minister ordained in Georgia was John Springer in Wilkes County.
  48. 1790 - In 1790 John Houstoun was elected as the first mayor of Savannah.
  49. 1790 - Invention of the cotton gin, Eli Whitney, 1790, near Savannah at Mulberry Grove Plantation. (Blds. Ga.)
  50. 1793 - First state to commercially grow cotton and the first to run a successful cotton mill is Georgia.
  51. 1793 - First woman in the United States to own and edit a newspaper, The Washington Gazette, is Sarah Porter Hillhouse.
  52. 1795 - First successful cotton gin perfected and set up by Eli Whitney in Wilkes County.
  53. 1796 - First golf course in the United States, 1796. Savannah, Georgia.
  54. 1802 - First woman newspaper editor, 1802, Washington Gazette. (Blds. Ga.)
  55. 1804 - First woman newspaper editor in United States was Sarah Hillhouse who became the editor of the Monitor in 1804.
  56. 1804 - First chartered State University was the University of Georgia, 1804, Athens. (Blds. Ga.)
  57. 1805 - First land lottery is held in Georgia. (Blds. Ga.)
  58. 1806 - First woman hanged in Georgia occurred in Washington, Georgia in 1806. She was Polly Barclay.
  59. 1811 - First cotton mill in Georgia erected on Upton Creek in Wilkes County.
  60. 1813 - First St. Patrick's Day celebration in Georgia. The Irish Hibernian Society holds a private St. Patrick's Day celebration, Savannah's first on record. March 17, 1813 (D.W.C.)
  61. 1815 - First Georgian to graduate from West Point, William Washington Gordon 1815.
  62. 1819 - First steamship to cross an ocean, the Atlantic, 1819, S.S. Savannah, from Savannah, Georgia to Liverpool. Historical Marker   Centenary Tablet (Blds. Ga.)
  63. 1823 - First state to require birth registration is Georgia.
  64. 1824 - First official St. Patrick's Day Parade. The Hibernians hold Savannah's first official St. Patrick's Day Parade.
  65. 1828 - First newspaper using a native American language, The Cherokee Phoenix, was founded in Georgia in 1828.
  66. 1829 - First gold rush in the United States took place in Dahlonega in 1829.
  67. 1830 - First chartered college for women, Wesleyan College, 1830, Macon. (Blds. Ga.)
  68. 1831 - First stamp mill for gold in the world was invented and put into use near Washington, Georgia by Jeremiah Griffin, 1831-1832.
  69. 1834 - First successful iron steamship, the S.S. John Randolph, is launched in Savannah. July 9, 1834.
  70. 1834 - First passenger train in the world from Charleston, S.C. to Augusta, Georgia. (Blds. Ga.)
  71. 1836 - First state-owned railroad, Western & Atlantic Railroad, is created by the Georgia General Assembly on December 21, 1836.
  72. 1836 - First college in the world chartered to confer degrees to women is Wesleyan College in Macon
  73. 1842 - First use of Ether as anesthetic by Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, March 30, 1842. (Blds. Ga.)
  74. 1849 - First tunnel in Georgia was completed at Chetoogeta Mountain, between Dalton, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. (At.Env.)
  75. 1856 - First Republican candidate for president of the United States was John Charles Fremont, born in Savannah, Georgia. He is defeated by James Buchanan. Fremont will be one of two native born Georgian's to serve as Generals in the United States army during the War Between the States. Edward Porter Alexander was the other one.
  76. 1862 - Susie Baker King Taylor was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. As the author of "Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers", she was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences.
  77. 1862 - First revolving pistols for the Confederate Army by the Griswold Cotton Gin Company. July, 1862.
  78. 1862 - First use of rifled cannon in modern warfare, at Fort Pulaski, 1862. Savannah, Georgia.
  79. 1864 - On Dec. 1, 1864, on the bank of the Ogeechee River in Jefferson County, Charles Hicks elisted in the Union Army. He had prviously, in 1861, gone off to war as a servant with the master's son, Lt. James H. Hicks Jr., a lieutenant in the Confederate Army. Their unit, the 14th Georgia, was in Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and fought in many of the war's bloodiest battles, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Cold Harbor. He is believed to be the only Georgia who was a member of both the United Confederate Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War, Georgia (SMN)
  80. 1865 - First national bank to operate in the cotton states is the Atlanta National Bank. (At.Env.)
  81. 1866 - First Confederate Memorial Day. April 26, 1866.
  82. 1866 - First state to give women full property rights is Georgia.
  83. 1866 - First convicts leased in Georgia. General Thomas Howard Ruger USA Provisional Governor of Georgia leases 100 able-bodied and healthy Negro convicts to William A. Fort. May 11, 1868.
  84. 1870 - First black elected to U.S. House of Representatives, is Jefferson Long.
  85. 1880 - First long distance telephone call, 1880, Trion to Rome. (Blds. Ga.)
  86. 1881 - First college in the world chartered for African-American women is Spelman College in Atlanta.
  87. 1881 - First African-American nursing school in the country opened at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
  88. 1883 - First automobile, 4 H.P., steam-driven, owned by Adelbert Brown Coe, 1883, Macon. (Blds. Ga.)
  89. 1886 - First Building in the United States Built Over a Public Street. Cotton Exchange was center of commerce when Savannah was world's foremost cotton port. Now Solomon's Lodge #1. To the east, the City Exchange Bell hangs in a replica of the cupola of the old City Exchange. Using "air rights", this is the first building in the United States to be built entirely over a public street. Located on Factors Walk.
  90. 1886 - John Pemberton first makes and sells Coca-Cola in Atlanta.
  91. 1887 - Bouxite discovered in Georgia , 1887, first time found in United States. (Blds. Ga.)
  92. 1889 - First electric streetcar in Georgia made its first trip in Atlanta. (At.Env.)
  93. 1891 - First Garden Club founded in Athens.
  94. 1893 - Asa Candler incorporated The Coca-Cola Company, registered the "Coca-Cola" trademark with the U.S. patent office and paid his first dividends on company stock in 1893. Twenty bucks.
  95. 1893 - First Rural Free Delivery, 1893, Quitman, Georgia Congressman Thomas E. Watson introduced bill in Congress. (Blds. Ga.)
  96. 1895 - First movie ever shown with paid admission, 1895, Atlanta. (Blds. Ga.)
  97. 1906 - First Southern school of forestry was established at The University of Georgia in 1906.
  98. 1911 - First motorized fire department in United States is in Savannah, Georgia.
  99. 1912 - First Girl Scout troop, founded by Juliette Gordon Low, 1912. Savannah, Georgia. (Blds. Ga.)
  100. 1915 - First Transcontinental Telephone call was made by Mr. Theodore N. Vail, President of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, from Jekyll Island to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, in New York.
  101. 1916 - First compulsory school attendance law in Georgia . (Ga.S.B.)
  102. 1918 - Women students first gain full admission to the University of Georgia. (Ga.S.B.)
  103. 1922 - First woman member of the Georgia State Legislature is Viola Ross Napier of Bibb County. (At.Env.)
  104. 1922 - First woman United States Senator, Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, Centerville. Appointed to fill the vacancy left by her deceased husband pending a special election. September 22, 1922. (Blds. Ga.) In 1922 Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia, in a symbolic gesture, appointed Mrs. Felton to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson. She served only two days, Nov. 21-22, 1922, before being succeeded by Walter F. George, the duly elected senator. (E.B.)
  105. 1922 - WSB in Atlanta was the first radio station in Georgia to be established. (W.B.)
  106. 1924 - Robert Norwood Cronk was the first person born in Savannah Georgia in the year 1924. (eMail)
  107. 1925 - Frank Lebby Stanton, Atlanta journalist and poet, was named Georgia's first poet laureate. (Ga.S.B.)
  108. 1926 - Largest tire fabric mill in world, 1926, Thomaston. (Blds.Ga.)
  109. 1930 - First county-owned hydro-electric plant, 1930, Crisp County. (Blds.Ga.)
  110. 1930 - Conrad Potter Aiken of Savannah was the first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems. (Ga.S.B.)
  111. 1931 - The Atlanta Airport was the first airport in the United States to have a passenger terminal (1931).
  112. 1932 - Ralph Metcalf became the first Georgian to win an Olympic gold medal as a member of the U. S. 400-meter relay team. (Ga.S.B.)
  113. 1934 - Caroline Miller of Waycross was the first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Novel) for Lamb in His Bosom. (Nob.P.R., Bio.Alm.)
  114. 1934 - Lettie Pate Whitehead becomes the first American woman to serve as a director of a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Company. (Horton Smith won the 1st Masters Golf Tournament under the magnolia trees of Augusta National in Georgia.
  115. 1937 - Largest fresh-water swamp wildlife refuge established 1937, Okefenokee Swamp. (Blds. Ga.)
  116. 1938 - Georgia's first four-lane highway, the Atlanta-Marietta Highway, was opened. (At.Env.)
  117. 1938 - Georgia's first peacan auction market in Vidalia, was opened in 1938 by J. B. Brewton. (Vid.T&N)
  118. 1942 - University of Georgia running back, Frank Sinkwich, became the first Georgian to win the Heisman Trophy. (Ga.S.B.)
  119. 1943 - Georgia was the first state to allow 18-year olds the right to vote (1943).
  120. 1946 - One of the first plastic garments ever cut in the world was in Wilkes County by Margo and Alfred Moses in February 1946.
  121. 1947 - The first woman to represent Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives. Helen Douglas Mankin was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Robert Ramspeck. (DLoG)
  122. 1948 - Alice Coachman Davis of Albany became the first Georgia woman Olympic gold medalist, winning the women's high jump. (Ga.S.B.)
  123. 1948 - WSB-TV was the first television station established in Georgia. (W.B.)
  124. 1948 - First woman in the Air Force, Sgt. Esther M. Blake enlisted in the first minute of the first hour of the first day the regular Air Force was authorized. This took place on the 8th of July 1948 at Ft. McPhearson, Georgia, where Sgt. Blake was stationed as a member of the WAC. By enlisting in the Air Force she became the first WAF - which by the way stood for Women in the Air Force.
  125. 1949 - Ezzard Charles became the first Georgia-born world heavyweight champion in boxing following Joe Louis' retirement. In 1950 he defeated Louis in a comeback attempt. (Ga.Alm., W.B., Bio.Alm.)
  126. 1953 - Neva Jane Langley of Macon was the first Miss Georgia to be crowned Miss America. (W.Alm.)
  127. 1956 - First Midas Muffler shop opens at Macon, Georgia. April 20, 1956. May 13, 1957.
  128. 1956 - First commercial jet airliner, a French Caravelle, lands at Atlanta.
  129. 1959 - First state forestry center and forest fire lab were established at Macon in 1959.
  130. 1960 - Ray Charles of Albany was the first Georgian to win a Grammy Award for "Georgia on My Mind." (Wo.Win.)
  131. 1961 - First and only attempt to dye the Savannah River green on St. Patrick's Day is a dismal failure, resulting in a small, striped splotch.
  132. 1962 - First Nuclear-powered merchant ship, the N. S. Savannah, 1962.
  133. 1963 - First Garden for the Blind in the Southeast. Savannah's first fragrant garden at Forsyth Park was dedicated April 1963 and called the Fragrant Garden for the Blind in Savannah.
  134. 1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first Georgian to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring about integration in the United States without violence. (E.A.)
  135. 1965 - The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly, Grace Towns Hamilton was also the first female of her race in the Deep South to hold a public office of such consequence. She was among eight African Americans sent to the state legislature in a special election in June 1965.
  136. 1966 - Black legislators seated for the first time in 58 years. January 10, 1966.
  137. 1970 - The Confederate Memorial Carving on Georgia's Stone Mountain, the largest high relief sculpture in the world, is dedicated May 9, 1970. Begun by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum in 1923, the carving features the figures of (left to right) Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on horseback. (S.M.)
  138. 1971 - The Exchange Tavern, River Street's first bar, opens during a time when the waterfront was still considered a seedy area.
  139. 1972 - In 1972 Andrew Young won Georgia's Fifth District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 and became the first African American since Reconstruction to be elected to Congress from Georgia. Young's election was momentous: he and Barbara Jordan, a Democrat who was also elected to the House (from Texas) in 1972, became two of the first black southerners in Congress in the twentieth century.
  140. 1973 - Tommy Aaron became the first Georgian to win the Masters golf tournament. (Ga.S.B.)
  141. 1973 - Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. was the first African-American mayor of a large southern city (1973) Atlanta, Georgia .
  142. 1975 - Lee Elder was the first black to play in the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Georgia.
  143. 1976 - James Earl "Jimmy" Carter was the first Georgian to be elected President of the United States. (W.B.)
  144. 1979 - MARTA (Mertropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) was the first rapid rail line established in Georgia and the Southeast. (Ga.S.B.)
  145. 1996 - The Oglethorpe Brewing Company, Savannah's first onsite brewpub, opens on Bay Street. It closes after a few years and its brewing tanks are taken over by the Moon River brewpub.

Sources

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At.Env.
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  		  Garrett, Franklin M. Atlanta and Its Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events. Univ. of Georgia Press, 1954.
Bio.Alm. -   Stetler, Susan L. (ed.) Biography Almanac. 3rd ed. Gale, 1987.
Blds.Ga. -   Murphy, Gregory (ed. & pub.) Builders of Georgia June 1941.
D.W.C. -   Fogarty, William L. The Days We've Celebrated Savannah Morning News. June 1941.
DLoG -   Digital Library of Georgia - Georgia Reference Shelf - Biography - Political Figures
E.A. -   The Encyclopedia Americana. International ed. Grolier, 1992.
E.B. -   Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Women In American History by Encyclopędia Britannica
FiAWH -   Firsts in American Women's History. FactMonster.com.
eMail -   eMail
Ga.Alm.
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  		  Crutchfield, James A. (ed.) The Georgia Almanac and Book of Facts 1989-1990. Rutledge Hill Press, 1988.
Ga.F. -   Clements, John. Georgia Facts. Clements Research II, 1989.
Ga.H.B.
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  		  Hepburn, Lawrence R. The Georgia History Book. Univ. of Georgia Institute of Government, 1982.
Ga.S.B.
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  		  Jackson, Edwin L. (et al.) The Georgia Studies Book. Univ. of Georgia, Carl Vinson Institute of Govenment, 1991.
J.A.T.Ga.1st.G.
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  		  Riley, Helene M. Kastinger John Adam Treutlen: The European Heritage of Georgia's First Governor Sagas Publishing, 1999, Greenville.
JMoF
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  		  Jewish Museum of Florida
H.F.A.B.C. -   Love, E. K. History of the First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia 1888.
Nob.P.R. -   Wasson, Tyler (ed.) Nobel Prize Winners. H. W. Wilson, 1987.
SMN -   Savannah Morning News 2000
S.M. -   The Year We Were Born: May 1970 by Smithsonian Magazine
D.W.C. -   Fogarty, William L. The Days We've Celebrated Savannah Morning News. June 1941.
W.Alm. -   The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1994. World Almanac, 1994.
W.B. -   The World Book Encyclopedia. World Book., Inc., 1992.
Wo.Win. -   Siegman, Gail (ed.) World of Winners. 2nd ed. Gale, 1992.
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Military Women "Firsts" - American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too! by Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF (Ret).
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Savannah, Georgia - The Writer and The Preacher - Journeys of Dan Phillips.
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Famous Firsts Trivia Collections of Unusual Facts - Trivia Collections of Unusual Facts - A Corsinet Production.
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Georgia Facts and Firsts - Guide to Georgia Agriculture 96 - University of Georgia - College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Cooperative Extension Service
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Georgia Firsts - Georgia Factsheet
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Slavery and Religion in America: A Time Line 1440-1866 - Internet Public Library
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Georgia: Article - DiscoverySchool.com
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A History of Drinking in Savannah - Creative Loafing
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Savannah St. Patrick's Day Parade Timeline - St Patrick's Day 2001 - SavannahNOW
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Has Georgia ever elected a woman to the Georgia General Assembly or to the United States Congress? - Georgia Department of Archives and History - Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox
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