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An avenue of oaks and Spanish moss leads visitors to the ruins of Wormsloe—the estate of Noble Jones. Jones, one of Georgia's first settlers, was a physician, carpenter, constable, Indian agent and a member of the Royal Council.
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Georgia Information and History

Atlanta began as a railhead in 1837, was burned to the ground in the Civil War, and rose again to become the transportation hub of the new South. Savannah, an industrial port and resort, was the nation's first planned city, laid out in 1733. In the northeastern uplands, tourism now supersedes textile manufacturing and farming, while pine forests in the southeast make Georgia a leading supplier of wood pulp. Farmers on the fertile Coastal Plain grow almost half the nation's peanuts, which generate some $500 million in annual revenue.

ECONOMY

Industry: textiles and clothing, transportation equipment, food processing, paper products, chemicals, electrical equipment, tourism.
Agriculture: poultry and eggs, cotton, peanuts, vegetables, sweet corn, melons, cattle.

Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
Georgia Flag and Fast Facts
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Area
153,909 square kilometers
(59,425 square miles)
Population
8,684,715
Capital
Atlanta; 424,868
Per Capita Income
U.S. $28,703
Date Statehood Achieved
January 2, 1788
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