The Great Flood of 1927 devastated portions of Mississippi (pictured), Arkansas, and Louisiana. Atlanta activist Lugenia Burns Hope was appointed to U.S. president Herbert Hoover's Colored Advisory Commission, which investigated acts of racial discrimination during flood relief efforts. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOoaCsrJ%2Bnxm6t0Zyfmp2fobyoxY6lrKCdnp6ubq7Uq6WsZZikvaZ5kHFuamVhboF4e8xmaGppYGx8

The old Cherokee County Courthouse was used for court proceedings from the late 1920s until 1994. The structure, with an exterior of marble from Pickens County, is located in downtown Canton. Image from MrGeode13 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.

Paschal’s Restaurant, located in Atlanta’s historic Castleberry Hill neighborhood, was an important meeting place for leaders of the civil rights movement. Founded by brothers James and Robert Paschal, the restaurant and adjacent jazz venue, La Carrousel, were known for serving Black and white patrons in defiance of segregation laws. Founding and Expansion In 1947 James and Robert Paschal opened Paschal Brothers Soda, a thirty-seat luncheonette at 837 West Hunter Street. The brothers, originally from Thomson, had backgrounds in hospitality and customer service prior to entering the food service business.

This town of Petersburg, once the third largest in Georgia, stood in the forks of the Broad and Savannah rivers. Established in 1786, the town was submerged by the man-made Clarks Hill Lake in the early 1950s. This map, compiled by historian E. Merton Coulter from data in the Elbert County deed records, approximates the layout of the town during its heyday in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Georgia artwork from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is typically covered in larger histories of southern art, where painting, architecture, and/or decorative arts dominate, and a few valuable studies are available on individual artists who made early drawings and prints involving Georgia. Although a published history of the drawings and prints of Georgia made during this time does not exist, these vivid works, as well as their creators, are worthy of study in their own right as early documentation of the colony and the state.