Quick Start is a workforce training program designed to support new and existing businesses in Georgia. Ranked the top program of its kind in the nation by Expansion Management magazine in 2005, Quick Start is part of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). The program, which began in the late 1960s, completed nearly 5,200 training projects in the state by 2007. More than half a million residents have benefited from the program, which is credited with the successful creation and retention of jobs in Georgia.

The museum is named for Ralph Mark Gilbert, a Savannah leader of the civil rights movement. Gilbert served as president of the Savannah NAACP for eight years. 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 may need to be submitted to Explore Georgia.

Rice, Georgia’s first staple crop, was the most important commercial agricultural commodity in the Lowcountry from the middle of the eighteenth century until the early twentieth century. Rice arrived in America with European and African migrants as part of the so-called Columbian Exchange of plants, animals, and germs. Over time, profits from the production and sale of the cereal formed the basis of many great fortunes in coastal Georgia. The heart of the United States rice industry lay in the South Atlantic region from the early eighteenth century until the late nineteenth century.

Richard Malcolm Johnston was a lawyer, teacher, and dialect humorist from Hancock County. A disciple of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, he called his first book Georgia Sketches (1864) in honor of Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835). In an enlarged form, this collection was renamed Dukesborough Tales (1871); the second edition of Dukesborough Tales, published in 1883, launched his national literary career. Johnston’s writing has been called a bridge between antebellum humor and postbellum local color traditions.

Sally Cobb Hull, born in Athens in 1887, married Philip Weltner in 1913. After Weltner retired from his position as president of Oglethorpe University, the couple moved to a plot of land behind the Brookhaven campus, gifted by the University's Board of Trustees. Image from A.L. Hull 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.