Sincere though General James Oglethorpe may have been about Georgia’s philanthropic rhetoric, he understood that the colony also had a vital military mission to fulfill. Imperial strategy demanded a sturdy settlement to defend South Carolina’s southern flank, both against Spanish Florida and unpredictable Southeastern Indians, and to secure the strategically vital Altamaha River against possible French encroachments from the west. Oglethorpe took these responsibilities seriously and, as soon as circumstances allowed, began the work of fortifying Georgia’s coastline in earnest.

Country music has played a large role in the culture of Georgia, as it has in all southern states, and Georgians have played major roles in the history of country music. A Brief History The event often referred to as the birth of country music took place in 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee, when the  Victor Records talent scout and recording engineer Ralph Peer set up a temporary recording studio on the last leg of his tour of the South.

Cox Enterprises is one of the largest media companies in the United States. In 2007 the company owned seventeen daily and twenty-five nondaily newspapers, eighty radio stations, fifteen television stations, and the nation’s third-largest cable television provider. Early Growth of a Family Empire James Middleton Cox began the company that would become Cox Enterprises in 1898, when he purchased the Dayton Evening News in Dayton, Ohio, for $26,000. As publisher, Cox developed a reputation for aggressive, reform journalism, and he characterized the Evening News as “the people’s paper.

A worker, pictured in 1952 at the Eatonton Cooperative Creamery in Putnam County, processes milk. 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. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Archives. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOm6ysoZ6awLR5xJymp6edrnynrdGmZJynn6Wys63Toq2eq1%2BienmEl29m

The Echols County Courthouse in Statenville, designed in the modern style, was built in 1956. It is the county's third courthouse. Courtesy of Don Bowman 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.