(Encyclopedia) EtowahEtowahĕtˈəwôˌ, āˈtə– [key], river, 141 mi (227 km) long, rising in the Blue Ridge Mts., N Ga., and flowing SW to Rome, Ga., where it joins the Oostanaula River to form the Coosa…
(Encyclopedia) Augusta
Augusta
ôgŭsˈtə, əgŭsˈ–
[key]. 1 City (2020 pop. 199,614), seat of Richmond co., E Ga.; inc. 1798. At
the head of navigation on the Savannah River…
(Encyclopedia) Russell, Richard B., 1897–1971, American political leader, b. Winder, Ga. The son of a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, he began his political career as a state representative (…
(Encyclopedia) Saint Marys. 1 River, c.175 mi (280 km) long, rising in Okefenokee Swamp, SE Ga., and flowing, with a great southern bend, E to the Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the Georgia–Florida…
(Encyclopedia) Say, Thomas, 1787–1843, American naturalist, b. Philadelphia. He went on collecting expeditions to Georgia and Florida and, with Stephen H. Long, to the Rocky Mts. and up the…
(Encyclopedia) Browne, Thomas, d. 1825, Loyalist commander in the American Revolution. A resident of Augusta, Ga., he was the victim of colonist violence in 1775, when he was tarred and feathered for…
(Encyclopedia) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia, Belarus,…
(Encyclopedia) McIntosh, WilliamMcIntosh, Williammăkˈəntŏshˌ [key], c.1775–1825, Native American chief, b. in the Creek country now within the limits of Carroll co., Ga.; son of a British army…
(Encyclopedia) Douglas.
1 City (2020 pop. 16,534), Cochise co., SE Ariz., at the
Mexican border; inc. 1905. The mining and smelting of copper have been…
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