The Georgia Historical Quarterly, the scholarly journal of the Georgia Historical Society, has been published continuously since 1917. It continues to serve the aims set out in its inaugural issue: to collect, preserve, and disseminate Georgia history. The Quarterly began publication in Savannah almost eighty years after the society’s founding in 1839. During the 1910s the society was beset by controversy. Influential professional historians, most prominently from the University of Georgia, along with various state heritage groups had become dissatisfied with the society.

The College of Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology offers undergraduate degrees in architecture, building construction, and industrial design. Graduate programs lead to master’s and doctoral degrees in architecture and city planning. The college is home to more than 850 students and 100 full- and part-time faculty. The Beaux-Arts Years When the Georgia School of Technology was founded in 1888, there was no architecture program. Student Ernest Daniel “Ed” Ivey, later a principal with the firm of Ivey and Crook, expressed an interest in establishing such a field of study at the engineering school.

The Georgia Yellow Hammers, an old-time fiddle string band from Gordon County, were active from the mid- to late 1920s. Members consisted variously of Bill Chitwood, Clyde Evans, Bud Landress, Charles Ernest Moody, Phil Reeve, and sometime recording associates Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter, and Elias Meadows. George Oscar “Bud” Landress was born in Gwinnett County in 1882 and moved to Gordon County in 1905. William Hewlitt “Bill” Chitwood, born in Resaca in 1891, was the youngest of twelve children.

Glynn County, on Georgia’s southeastern coast, was created on February 5, 1777, as the state’s seventh county. It now comprises Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, and Sea Island, as well as the mainland between the Little Satilla River to the south and the Altamaha River to the north. The county’s largest communities are the town of Brunswick, along with Jekyll, St. Simons, and Sea islands. Of these, only Brunswick, the county seat, is incorporated.

The office of governor can trace its ancestry to Georgia’s founding as a British colony in 1733. Although he never held the title of governor, General James Oglethorpe, founder of the Georgia colony, is generally considered to be the first executive officer of Georgia. The state’s first governor after independence from Great Britain was John A. Treutlen. Given the experience of strong royal governors during the years leading up to the Revolutionary War (1775-83), Georgia governors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were initially weak in the amount of power granted to them.