As previously posted, over the next few months, we will be featuring information about our 50 States.
As a Worked All States net, it may be interesting to refresh our memories about the states we hear and/or work on the net. This week we will focus on the state of Georgia, the fourth state to ratify the constitution.
Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on Feb. 12, 1733. It was the thirteenth of the 13 original colonies. Georgia became a state on Jan. 2, 1788. Georgia has had 5 capitals:
- Savannah (1777-1785)
- Augusta (1786-1789)
- Louisville (1789-1807)
- Milledgeville (1807-1867)
- Atlanta (1868-present
- State Flower – Cherokee Rose
- Crop – Peanuts
- State Song – “Georgia On My Mind”
- Nicknames – Peach State, Empire State of the South
- Tree – Live Oak
- State HAM – AI4IL
- Georgia is home to the oldest state park in the nation
- Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River
- Georgia was the 4th state to join the Union in 1776 and the 5th to join the Confederacy in 1861
- Wesleyan College in Macon was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women
Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The name “Coca-Cola” was suggested by Dr. Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. He penned the name Coca-Cola in the flowing script that is famous today. Coca-Cola was first sold at a soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta by Willis Venable.
These are just a few of the interesting facts about Georgia. Have fun working GA as you pursue your W.A.S. or any of the GERATOL Awards and endorsements, that require you contact the Peach State.