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. There are 63 parks in Georgia 48 of which are state parks and 15 that are historic sites and numerous state wildlife preserves under the supervision of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Other historic sites and parks are supervised by the National Park Service and include the Andersonville National Historic Site in Andersonville; Appalachian National Scenic Trail; Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area near Atlanta; Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park at Fort Oglethorpe; Cumberland Island National Seashore near St Marys; Fort Frederica National Monument on St Simons Island; Fort Pulaski National Monument in Savannah; Jimmy Carter National Historic Site near Plains; Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park near Kennesaw; Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site in Atlanta; Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon; Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; and the Okefenokee Swamp in Waycross Georgia. Parks The Buckhead skyline Main article: American Revolution, Culture Black/African American 7% 3.9% Columbus Main article: Protected areas of Georgia (U.S state) Main article: 2010 Atlanta Braves season.
Demographics Clark Atlanta University First we'll use Spahn On 5 February 1958 during a training mission flown by a B-47 a Mark 15 nuclear bomb also known as the Tybee Bomb was lost off the coast of Tybee Island near Savannah the bomb was thought by the Department of Energy to lie buried in silt at the bottom of Wassaw Sound. Atlanta has a network of freeways that radiate out from the city and automobiles are the dominant means of transportation in the region Three major interstate highways converge in Atlanta: I-20 (east-west) I-75 (northwest-southeast) and I-85 (northeast-southwest) the latter two combine in the middle of the city to form the Downtown Connector (I-75/85) which carries more than 340,000 vehicles per day and is one of the most congested segments of interstate highway in the United States Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285 a beltway locally known as "the Perimeter" that has come to mark the boundary between "Inside the Perimeter" (ITP) the city and close-in suburbs and "Outside the Perimeter" (OTP) the outer suburbs and exurbs the heavy reliance on automobiles for transportation in Atlanta has resulted in traffic commute and air pollution rates that rank among the worst in the country the City of Atlanta has a higher than average percentage of households without a car in 2015 15.2 percent of Atlanta households lacked a car and increased slightly to 16.4 percent in 2016 the national average is 8.7 percent in 2016 Atlanta averaged 1.31 cars per household in 2016 compared to a national average of 1.8. Participating National Olympic Committees, * Host nation (United States), The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in northwestern Atlanta. . No person on active duty with any branch of the armed forces of the United States shall have a seat in either house unless otherwise provided by law. *** No cap insignia on Hall of Fame plaque. ? ? ? Ordinance of Secession See also: List of railroads eligible to participate in the formation of Amtrak.
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