!Package: Georgia !Label: Georgia French claim the River Mai 1718 (Altamaha, near Darien) Fort King George 1721 !URL: http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html founded on the Altamaha near future Darien, Ga. Fort King George accidentally burns 1727 Georgia chartered 1732, April 20 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-apr/apr21.htm In London, King George II signed the royal charter creating the new colony of Georgia. However, because of the many additional approvals needed by other officials in the British government, final passage of the charter would not occur for two more months. Georgia founded 1733, 12 Feb at Savannah, by James Oglethorpe. Salzburgers & Old Ebenezer 1734 Oglethorpe in fut. Sunbury Spangenburg and Moravians 1735 Salzburgers & Moravians 1736 + C.&J. Wesley to Savannah Darien 1736, 19 Jan John McIntosh Mohr founds New Inverness (Darien), Georgia. On the 19th of January, after traveling down the inland waterway by boat, the Highlanders landed at Barnwell's Bluff on the site of Fort King George. There the Scots established the settlement they called Darien, in memory of the ill-fated expedition made by their countrymen to the Isthmus of Darien in Panama in 1697. There were 177 people in this hardy band of Scots, including women and children, and they were led by John McIntosh Mohr and Hugh Mackay. Presbyterians in Georgia 1736, 19 Jan !URL: http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html Rev. John McLeod of the Isle of Skye is the first Presb. minister in Ga., at Darien. Wesleys in America 1736, Feb 5 John and Charles Wesley reach Savannah, Georgia from England, invited by Gov. James Oglethorpe as missionaries to the Indians. Oglethorpe visits Darien 1736, February 22 !URL: http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html Oglethorpe made his first visit to Darien. The occasion marked the first military parade of British troops to be held in Georgia. In their honor, Oglethorpe wore the Highland habit. As they marched in review before him, the Highlanders made an impressive sight in full regalia, with claymore, side arms and targets (shields). Georgia divided into two counties 1741 (Savannah & Frederica) Oglethorpe defeats Spanish at Bloody Marsh 1742 Audley Maxwell comes to Georgia 1748 Georgia divided into eleven districts 1751 Gov. John Reynolds 1754, Aug 6 ``...and upon nomination of the Lord's Commissioners, Captain John Reynolds, of the Royal Navy, was, on the 6th of August, 1754, appointed governor.'' — Stacy in his History. !Source: Stacy-H First Lord's Supper at Midway 1754, Sep 8 ``Sept. 8, 1754. The Lord's Supper was for the first time administered among us.'' !Source: Stacy-R Gov. John Reynolds lands 1754, Oct 29 at Savannah. !Source: Stacy-H Georgia divided into eleven parishes 1758 Cherokee War 1760 !Range: Begin Car. [begin] Cherokee War 1761 !Range: End Car. [end] n. of W. Fla. is 32 deg. 28 " 1767 mouth of Yazoo R. to Apalachicola R. Sunbury is Liberty Co. seat 1777 McIntosh duels Gwinnett 1777, May 16 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may16.htm For months, animosity between Gen. Lachlan McIntosh and former Council of Safety president Button Gwinnett had been growing -- especially when Gwinnett in March had ordered the arrest of McIntosh's brother for treason (at the request of the Continental Congress). Both the general and Gwinnett had been involved in a failed invasion of British Florida, and each blamed the other. When the Georgia legislature cleared Gwinnett of responsibility, McIntosh responded by calling Gwinnett "a Scoundrell & lying Rascal." The result was a duel on May 16 outside of Savannah. At close range, both fired their pistols at the same time, each striking the other. McIntosh's bullet shattered Gwinnett's thigh, producing a wound that would prove fatal days later. Button Gwinnett d. 1777, May 19 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may19.htm As a result of a wound received three days earlier in a duel with Gen. Lachlan McIntosh, Button Gwinnett died in Savannah. Col. J.M. Prevost invades Georgia from Florida 1778 British take Savannah 1778, Dec 29 !Source: ToW British def. at King's Mountain 1780 British evacuate Savannah 1782 Pres. Washington in Savannah 1791, May 12 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may12.htm On this morning President Washigton visited Purrysburg on the Savannah River -- his last visit in South Carolina. There, Georgia officials met Washington to escort him onto a barge-like vessel for the twenty-five mile trip to Savannah. As the river took them past Mulberry Grove plantation, Washington had made plans to stop so he could visit Catharine (Caty) Greene, widow of Revolutionary Gen. Nathanael Greene. Washington spent several hours with his long-time friend and promised to stop by again in four days on his way to Augusta. Arriving in Savannah after sundown, Washington found the city brightly illuminated in celebration of his visit. Thus began four days of ceremonies, receptions, dinners, dances, and other formalities for Savannah's most important visitor in its 58-year history. Washington and Savannah Cincinnati 1791, May 13 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may13.htm Pres. Washington wrote in his diary: "Friday, 13th. Dined with the Members of the Cincinnati [the Society of the Cincinnati, a military society consisting of officers who had fought in the Continental Army during the Revolution] at a public dinner given at the same place, and in the evening with to a dancing Assembly at which there was about 100 well dressed and handsome ladies." Eli Whitney's cotton gin 1793 Riceboro founded as Liberty Co. seat 1797, Feb 01 Hurricane of 1804 devastates Sunbury 1804 !Source: McIlvaine British invade Georgia after war's end 1815, Jan !Source: McIlvaine Steamship Savannah from Savannah to Liverpool 1819 Hurricane of 1824 devastates Sunbury 1824 !Source: McIlvaine gold discovered on Cherokee land 1835 Liberty Co. seat to Hinesville 1837 Thomasville First Presbyterian Church 1853 Rev. I.S.K. Axson pastor in Savannah 1857 Georgia royal colony 1752, April 23 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-apr/apr23.htm In London, Georgia's Trustees made their last grant of land, paid their final bills, signed a deed surrendering Georgia to the Crown, and defaced their seal -- thus ending Georgia's two decades as a trustee colony. For the remainder of its colonial status, Georgia would now exist as a royal colony operated by the British government. FDR buys Warm Springs 1926, April 29 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-apr/apr29.htm On his fourth visit to Georgia and his third to Warm Springs, Franklin D. Roosevelt closed the deal in which he bought most of the property on and surrounding the Warm Springs resort area. Wm. McIntosh d. 1825, April 30 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-apr/apr30.htm Creek chieftain William McIntosh died at his plantation home, Lockchau Talofau, in what is now Carroll County, Georgia. [Some sources -- such as the Dictionary of Georgia Biography -- incorrectly cite May 1 as the date of his death.] McIntosh was the son of a Creek Indian mother and a Tory officer father. Through his father he was related to several notable Georgia officials, including his cousin George Troup, governor from 1823-1827. But the Creeks traced lineage through the mother; thus McIntosh became a chief among the Lower Creeks, who lived near and interacted more with whites than did the Upper Creeks, who lived along the Alabama, Tallapoosa, and and Coosa Rivers. Sherman's March [begin] 1864, Nov 15 !Range: Begin !Source: ToW Sherman's March [end] 1864, Dec 21 !Range: End !Source: ToW Waycross First Presbyterian Church 1887, Mar 04 Rev. I.S.K. Axson d. in Savannah 1891 race riot in Darien c 1899 !Source: SEQ Mrs. Meldrim Thompson 1925 Early Georgia Epitaphs REA 1935, May 11 !URL: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may11.htm President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7037 creating the Rural Electrification Administration, an action prompted by Roosevelt's frequent visits to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia. On his drives through the countryside, Roosevelt saw life in rural Georgia without electricity. Of course, he had electricity at his residence -- but his electric power rate was almost four times what he paid back at Hyde Park, New York. As a result, Roosevelt later noted, "So it can be said that a little cottage at Warm Springs, Georgia, was the birthplace of the Rural Electrification Administration." Margaret Mitchell 1936 Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind movie 1939 Hurricane Hugo 1989 storms 1993 floods 1994