Confederate Soldiers' Home, located at 410 Confederate Avenue in Atlanta, was built in 1902 to house aging Confederate veterans of the Civil War. The Inman family provided a portion of the funds necessary for the home's completion. 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 Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Convair 440 was a post-World War II innovation for short-haul traffic. For its time the 440 was economical, comfortable, and fast. It was also well suited to Eastern's connecting routes among intermediate-sized cities. It held forty-four seats and cruised at 284 miles per hour.  Photograph by Wikimedia 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 seat of McIntosh County, Darien is a coastal tidewater town about sixty miles south of Savannah. Its origins can be traced to the earliest years of colonial Georgia. The port town was established on the north branch of the Altamaha River in 1736 by Scottish Highlanders from Inverness, recruited by General James Oglethorpe to assist in the defense of the colony. The Scots were highly capable soldiers, among the finest in the world.

In July 1864 during the Atlanta campaign General William T. Sherman ordered the approximately 400 Roswell mill workers, mostly women, arrested as traitors and shipped as prisoners to the North with their children. There is little evidence that more than a few of the women ever returned home. As the Union forces approached Atlanta in the early summer of 1864, almost all the members of the founding families of Roswell—aristocrats from the Georgia coast, most of them owners and/or stockholders of the Roswell Manufacturing Company mills—had fled.

A diversion dam on the Savannah River pushes water to the headgate and locks of the Savannah-Ogeechee-Altamaha Canal, in Augusta. Along its route from the Piedmont to the Atlantic Ocean, the Savannah River is diverted for various purposes, including navigation, the generation of electricity, and water for human consumption. Image from Stacie Wells 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.