Georgia Geography

On February 12, 1733 a guy named James Oglethorpe, who was an English settler from England, and the rest of his crew landed in America and they landed on a piece of land now known as Georgia. Throughout the years Georgia has had four capitals, Savannah from 1733 through 1784, Augusta from 1785 through 1795, Louisville from 1796 until 1806, Milledgeville from 1809 until 1868, and its current capital of Atlanta from 1868 and still today. Another great fact about Georgia is it had the first full college made just for women called the Wesleyan College. Some notable companies that make Georgia their home: Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, The Home Depot, and Turner Broadcasting. At one point many famous people have called Georgia home. Some of the more notable ones are Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, Carson McCullers, author of The Lonely Hunter, musical greats James Brown, Ray Charles, and Trisha Yearwood.
Such as eggs and broiler production. Georgia leads the country in producing peanuts and pecans. Beef cattle, hogs, and milk are also a very important part of Georgia’s economy. Cotton production is ranked second among Georgia’s crops, followed by tobacco, soybeans, and corn. Other cash crops include hay, sorghum grain, and wheat. Other notable crops include sweet potato along with peaches, apples and watermelon. Georgia’s land mass is 59,425 miles squared. Water covers 3.2% of Georgia, which is not a lot compared to other places around the world or in America, however Georgia’s coastline is 100 miles long. Georgia’s geography is very diverse in the fact that it includes 3 distinctly different type landscapes they are the Appalachian Mountains, Ridge Valley, and the Piedmont Coastal Plain. Some of the native plants that are found in Georgia are the blue and purple asters, which can be found wild in the mountains, the red maple and the state flower Rosa laevigata.