Evelyn Hanna was one of a number of southern women whose writing became known as one of Georgia’s new “money crops.” Like her contemporary Margaret Mitchell, Hanna used the Civil War (1861-65) as a backdrop for her romantic fiction. The Atlanta Journal touted her novel Blackberry Winter (1938) as “a possible companion for Gone With the Wind for screen entertainment” and enlisted Hanna in the literary renaissance of the South, characterized by depictions of “that determination to endure,” as critic Medora Field Perkerson expressed it.

Fletcher Henderson, an accomplished pianist and native of Cuthbert, is credited with forming the first big band orchestra in New York City during the 1920s. His musical contributions laid the foundation for swing music. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

The Flint River Farms Resettlement Community in Macon County, named for the Flint River, which flows nearby, was one of several experimental planned communities established in 1937, during the Great Depression, under U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The community became home to 106 African American families, most of whom had previously lived on the surrounding plantations, where they worked as sharecroppers. In an effort to elevate sharecroppers and tenant farmers into landowners and to alleviate poverty in rural areas, the federal government implemented a number of farm-ownership programs, which were brought together in 1935 under the newly formed Resettlement Administration and its successor, the Farm Security Administration.

Flowery Branch is located in Hall County on the shores of Lake Lanier in northeast Georgia. The town, incorporated in 1903, is forty-five miles from Atlanta and twelve miles from Gainesville, the seat of Hall County. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the population of Flowery Branch was 9,391 an increase from the 2010 population of 5,679. Once the site of an early Indian trading post, Flowery Branch was originally called Anaguluskee, a Cherokee word that translates as “flowers on the branch [stream].

The Savannah Volunteer Guards occupy tents at Fort Screven in 1917, when the United States entered World War I. Built on Tybee Island from 1885 to 1897, Fort Screven was one of the state's five major military installations at that time. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.