Defensive tackler Freddie Pesqueira (number 44) of Acworth helped Georgia Southern's Eagles win back-to-back national championships in 1999 and 2000. Courtesy of Georgia Southern Athletic Media Relations 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 gold-covered capitol dome in the Atlanta skyline signifies that the city is home to Georgia’s state government. That would seem to make sense, as Atlanta is the largest and best-known city in the state, but interestingly, the size of a city has nothing to do with its designation as a state capital. Of Georgia’s five contiguous states, only in South Carolina does the largest city serve as capital. In fact, in only seventeen states is the state capital also the largest city.

Harriet Powers is one of the best-known southern African American quilt makers, even though only two of her quilts, both of which she made after the Civil War (1861-65), survive today. One is part of the National Museum of American History collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The second quilt is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The cotton quilts consist of numerous pictorial squares depicting biblical scenes and celestial phenomena.

The marker reads: "Here on February 12, 1825, William McIntosh, a friendly chief of the Creek Indians, signed the Treaty by which all lands west of the Flint River were ceded to the State of Georgia. For this, he was murdered by a band of Creeks who were opposed to the treaty. This tablet is placed by The Piedmont Continental Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution A.D. 1911." Photograph by Melinda Smith Mullikin, New Georgia Encyclopedia

All the photographs in the Inspired Georgia collection, except for one, are gelatin silver prints, developed using a technique that dates to the late nineteenth century. Frank Hunter’s landscape Light Passage, however, is distinguished by the platinum/palladium process, which uses iron salts rather than silver salts to create a deep tonal range. The other photographers featured in the exhibition maintain the gelatin silver tradition through both landscape and portrait photography. The images of John McWilliams (Ireland ’78 and Washington County, Georgia) and Lucinda Bunnen (Lonesome Walk) portray isolated or desolate natural landscapes, while Steven D.