Medal count Before settlement by Europeans Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12 1733 the colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by (and named for) King George II the Trustees implemented an elaborate plan for the colony's settlement known as the Oglethorpe Plan which envisioned an agrarian society of yeoman farmers and prohibited slavery the colony was invaded by the Spanish in 1742 during the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1752 after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony the Trustees turned over control to the crown Georgia became a crown colony with a governor appointed by the king, Fri 27th 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. 7 See also The first successful English colony was Jamestown established May 14 1607 near Chesapeake Bay the business venture was financed and coordinated by the London Virginia Company a joint stock company looking for gold Its first years were extremely difficult with very high death rates from disease and starvation wars with local Indians and little gold the colony survived and flourished by turning to tobacco as a cash crop. ! 5 Economy History 22 Nick Markakis Injury icon 2.svg, Hispanic/Latino 6.6% 4.7% July 17 2009 The primary network-affiliated television stations in Atlanta are WXIA-TV 11 (NBC) WGCL-TV 46 (CBS) WSB-TV 2 (ABC) and WAGA-TV 5 (Fox) Other major commercial stations include WPXA-TV 14 (Ion) WPCH-TV 17 (Ind.) WUVG-TV 34 (Univision) WUPA 69 (CW) and WATL 36 (MyNetworkTV) WPXA-TV WUVG-TV WAGA-TV and WUPA are network O&O's the Atlanta metropolitan area is served by two public television stations (both PBS member stations) and one public radio station WGTV 8 is the flagship station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network while WPBA is owned by Atlanta Public Schools Georgia Public Radio is listener-funded and comprises one NPR member station WABE a classical music station operated by Atlanta Public Schools! .
; With a GDP of $385 billion the Atlanta metropolitan area's economy is the tenth-largest in the country and among the top 20-largest in the world Corporate operations play a major role in Atlanta's economy as the city claims the nation's third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies it also hosts the global headquarters of corporations like the Coca-Cola Company the Home Depot Delta Air Lines AT&T Mobility Chick-fil-A and UPS Over 75% of Fortune 1000 companies conduct business operations in the city's metro area and the region hosts offices of over 1,250 multinational corporations Many corporations are drawn to the city by its educated workforce; as of 2014 45% of adults aged 25 or older residing in the city have at least 4-year college degrees compared to the national average of 28%. An Acela Express at Old Saybrook Connecticut in 2011, Along with the rest of the Southeast Georgia's population continues to grow rapidly with primary gains concentrated in urban areas the population of the Atlanta metropolitan area added 1.23 million people (24 percent) between 2000 and 2010 and Atlanta rose in rank from the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in the United States to the ninth-largest. The university city of Athens sparked an influential rock music scene in the 1980s and 1990s Among the groups achieving their initial prominence in that city were R.E.M Widespread Panic and the B-52's. .
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