The Kessler Campanile seen from the Georgia Tech Student Center, Fine and performing arts Atlanta Georgia business directory Georgia consists of 159 counties second only to Texas with 254 Georgia had 161 counties until the end of 1931 when Milton and Campbell were merged into the existing Fulton Some counties have been named for prominent figures in both American and Georgian history and many bear names with Native American origin Counties in Georgia have their own elected legislative branch usually called the Board of Commissioners which usually also has executive authority in the county Several counties have a sole Commissioner form of government with legislative and executive authority vested in a single person Georgia is the only state with current Sole Commissioner counties Georgia's Constitution provides all counties and cities with "home rule" authority the county commissions have considerable power to pass legislation within their county as a municipality would. 2 History After 1680 the imperial government in London took an increasing interest in the affairs of the colonies which were growing rapidly in population and wealth in 1680 only Virginia was a royal colony; by 1720 half were under the control of royal governors These governors were appointees closely tied to the government in London. .
Long freight train crossing the Stoney Creek viaduct on the Canadian Pacific Railway in southern British Columbia, 6.2 Language 120 2820, Interstate 85 passes through from Montgomery on the southwest and from Greenville on the northeast I-75 merges with I-85 to form the Downtown Connector from the Brookwood Interchange just north of Midtown Atlanta to just south of the Lakewood Freeway in south Atlanta Interstate 185 is a spur which merges with I-85 in LaGrange and stretches southward to Columbus Interstate 985 is a spur which merges with I-85 in Suwanee and serves the northern suburbs of Gwinnett and Hall Counties it terminates just northeast of Gainesville. See also: List of museums in Atlanta, See also: List of gold mines in Georgia. Seychelles (9) Braves manager Bobby Cox retired in 2010 after 25 years of management Brittain Dining Hall the main dining hall for East Campus! Cherokee Routes, Wed 25th Home Attendance at Turner Field, The first known electric locomotive was built in 1837 by chemist Robert Davidson of Aberdeen in Scotland and it was powered by galvanic cells (batteries) Thus it was also the earliest battery electric locomotive Davidson later built a larger locomotive named Galvani exhibited at the Royal Scottish Society of Arts Exhibition in 1841 the seven-ton vehicle had two direct-drive reluctance motors with fixed electromagnets acting on iron bars attached to a wooden cylinder on each axle and simple commutators it hauled a load of six tons at four miles per hour (6 kilometers per hour) for a distance of one and a half miles (2.4 kilometres) it was tested on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in September of the following year but the limited power from batteries prevented its general use it was destroyed by railway workers who saw it as a threat to their job security.
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