The Brantley County Courthouse was built in 1930 in Nahunta, which was selected in 1923 over the town of Hoboken to be the county seat. An addition to the original building was constructed in 1978. Courtesy of Don Bowman 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.

Visitors to Brasstown Bald, the highest elevation in Georgia, can view four states. The mountain is partly in Union County and partly in Towns County. 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 may need to be submitted to Explore Georgia.

With a generous state tax credit passed in 2008, Atlanta became known as “the Hollywood of the South.” Here, a parking lot across from the Richard B. Russell Federal Building becomes a Lagos, Nigeria, street scene in filming the movie Captain America: Civil War in 2015. 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.

Charles Wesley, along with his older brother John Wesley, was a founder of Methodist societies as well as a Methodist hymn writer and preacher. His 6,500 hymns, seventeen years of itinerant preaching, and superintendence of the London societies make him a major figure in the creation of the Methodist movement. His love for the Church of England is largely responsible for the Anglican tradition within Methodism. Early Life and Travels Born in Epworth Rectory, Lincolnshire, England, on December 18, 1707, Wesley was the third surviving son and probably the eighteenth child of Susanna and Samuel Wesley.

Cheryl Haworth trains in 2004 at the Anderson/Cohen Weightlifting Center in her hometown of Savannah. Haworth has won numerous awards, including a bronze Olympic medal in 2000, during her weightlifting career. 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.