In many ways Georgia’s history is integrally linked to that of the rest of the South and the rest of the nation. But as the largest state east of the Mississippi, the youngest and southernmost of the thirteen colonies, and by 1860 the most populous southern state, Georgia is in certain respects historically distinctive. Prehistory and European Exploration The human history of Georgia begins well before the founding of the colony, with Native American cultures that date back to the Paleoindian Period at the end of the Ice Age, nearly 13,000 years ago.

Georgia Southern University in Statesboro is the largest and most comprehensive center of higher education in the southern half of Georgia. Approximately 16,000 students from every state and eighty countries attend classes on the residential campus. Courtesy of Georgia Southern University 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.

The Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program (GSTEP) was a project that sought to increase achievement among prekindergarten through twelfth-grade students by improving the quality of their teachers. At the center of all GSTEP initiatives was a focus on evaluation, which helped to document and measure the effects of the program on the performance of preK-12 students and new teachers. Upon the accomplishment of its primary goals, the program ended in 2007.

Gibson, the seat of Glascock County, is located in the Upper Coastal Plain of east central Georgia, about thirty-five miles southwest of Augusta and about thirty-eight miles northeast of Milledgeville. The town is situated at the intersection of Georgia highways 171 and 102. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 630. The legislative act creating Glascock County from Warren County in 1857 authorized the county officers to select a site for the erection of public buildings.

In 1849 George W. Crawford, a former governor of Georgia, joined U.S. president Zachary Taylor's cabinet as secretary of war. From left, Reverdy Johnson, William M. Meredith, William B. Preston, Zachary Taylor, Crawford, Jacob Collamer, Thomas Ewing, and John M. Clayton. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcLPOr5yrpp%2BnwG67xWaenqeinLaiew%3D%3D