Legendary Events

I-285.svg Interstate 285, 96 3524, 2007 2,745,207 33,891 67.7% 14th 16th Music Fri 27th 86 2920. . In early 1861 Georgia joined the Confederacy (with secessionists having a slight majority of delegates) and became a major theater of the Civil War Major battles took place at Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta in December 1864 a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea 18,253 Georgian soldiers died in service roughly one of every five who served in 1870 following the Reconstruction Era Georgia became the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union, Ecology 1830 516,823 51.6% Domestic and international from Atlanta: As an example a typical modern wagon can hold up to 113 tonnes (125 short tons) of freight on two four-wheel bogies the track distributes the weight of the train evenly allowing significantly greater loads per axle and wheel than in road transport leading to less wear and tear on the permanent way This can save energy compared with other forms of transport such as road transport which depends on the friction between rubber tyres and the road Trains have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying which reduces air resistance and thus energy usage. . The state of Georgia has approximately 250 tree species and 58 protected plants Georgia's native trees include red cedar a variety of pines oaks hollies cypress sweetgum scaly-bark and white hickories and sabal palmetto East Georgia is in the subtropical coniferous forest biome and conifer species as other broadleaf evergreen flora make up the majority of the southern and coastal regions Yellow jasmine and mountain laurel make up just a few of the flowering shrubs in the state. Vte Columbus Main article: Railway electrification system, Maintenance Switzerland (114) In the 1730s Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe proposed that the area south of the Carolinas be colonized with the "worthy poor" of England to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9 1732 Oglethorpe and his compatriots hoped to establish a utopian colony that banned slavery and recruited only the most worthy settlers but by 1750 the colony remained sparsely populated the proprietors gave up their charter in 1752 at which point Georgia became a crown colony.

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