William Bartram’s 1791 book, Travels, reprinted many times, continues to fascinate American readers and attract them to the wildernesses he loved. The great explorer and diarist spent much of his time in backwoods Georgia, where he recorded matchless descriptions of the area’s flora, fauna, and Native American inhabitants. Bartram’s father, John, was his role model. John Bartram, America’s first professional botanist, loved to roam the woods in search of plants, and young “Billy” delighted in going along.

The Wimbish House is one of the last grand homes remaining on Peachtree Street. It was built in 1898 and designed by noted Atlanta architect W.T. Downing. 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 Special Collections and Archives at Georgia State University.

The original charter of the colony of Georgia encouraged the settlement of Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends. Few Quakers, however, came to the province in the early years. In 1768 more than seventy families from the area of Orange County, North Carolina, began settling in a special reserve set aside for them by the Georgia colonial government. Located in present-day McDuffie County, the reserve and its town were named Wrightsborough, after Georgia’s royal governor, James Wright.

The  WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection is part of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (UGA). Located in the Richard B. Russell Building for Special Collections Libraries, the collection is a remarkable treasure of moving-image history focusing on Atlanta and the surrounding region. It contains more than 5 million feet of original newsfilm, both edited and unedited footage, from 1948 to 1981. On September 29, 1948, WSB-TV became the first television station in the South.

This hand-colored lithograph of Creek chief Yoholo Micco was made after a portrait in oil by Charles Bird King. King painted oil portraits of many Native American leaders who visited Washington, D.C., in the early 1830s. The series was commissioned by Thomas Loraine McKenney, the federal superintendent of Indian affairs at the time. Print by Charles Bird King. From History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by T. McKenney and J.