The USS Water Witch, a wooden-hulled side-wheel gunboat, was used by the Union navy during the Civil War to blockade the Georgia coast. In June 1864 the ship was captured by Confederate raiders, who burned it six months later to prevent its recapture by Union general William T. Sherman's troops. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 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.

Vernacular gardens, by definition, are gardens of ordinary people, not those designed by professionals or owned by the elite. The vernacular garden is a result of community-held beliefs about gardening aesthetics and utility as well as the traditional use of space and how it should function. A General Homestead Plan An early Georgia farmer’s homestead was, above all, functional. Farmyards were designed according to use rather than aesthetics. Folkways, the zodiac, weather, the settler’s country of origin and ethnicity, and the almanac were among the factors guiding the placement of the outbuildings and gardens.

Du Bois accepted a faculty position at Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) in 1897. Atlanta University president Horace Bumstead brought Du Bois to Atlanta to establish a sociology program and to develop the university's curriculum. Image from Univeristy of Massachusetts Amherst, Special Collections and University Archives, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers. 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 water cycle in Georgia, like the water cycle across the planet, describes the continuous motion of water throughout the biosphere.  Within Georgia, the water cycle is broadly responsible for moving water from the atmosphere to streams, rivers, and lakes, on to the Atlantic Ocean, and back into the atmosphere. Precipitation Water in Georgia originates mainly as rainfall and occasionally as snow or sleet. On average, annual rainfall increases with elevation, with the greatest amounts (more than sixty inches per year) falling on the southern Appalachian Mountains in north Georgia—specifically the Blue Ridge region—and forming a temperate rainforest.

Atlanta youth murders suspect Wayne Williams is escorted back to Fulton County Jail after a hearing in 1981. Williams would eventually be convicted of two murders and implicated in virtually all of the others. 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.