Almost 200 acres of vineyards at Chateau Elan, a winery in Braselton, are planted with Vitis vinifera varieties and French-American hybrids. Chateau Elan produces an average of 40,000 cases of wine annually. Courtesy of Gerard Krewer 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.

Chelsea Rathburn is the author of three award-winning poetry collections and has served as the poet laureate of Georgia since 2019. Her work is marked by quiet intensity and explores relationships between form and content, and between the self and the world. Rathburn was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1975 and raised in Miami, but her maternal family has lived in Georgia for nearly two centuries. She earned a B.A. in English from Florida State University in 1997 and an M.

Though some progress has been made in recent decades, Georgia still ranks among those states with the highest rates of childhood poverty and continues to perform poorly on other indicators of childhood wellness. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in Georgia, 519,000 related children under the age of eighteen were living below the poverty level in 2017. Of these, 258,000 were African American, a figure that represented 31 percent of all Black children in the state.

The Ringling Brothers Circus band playing atop their circus wagon in a parade through the downtown area of Thomasville in 1904. 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 the Georgia Archives. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOrKeoqqSoerDB052mqKpdp7KkvsSaq6KnnmSwqr7Crqqeq1%2BienOBkW9m

From the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, there was no more important single factor in Georgia’s agricultural economy than cotton. In 2014 the state ranked second in cotton production in the United States, behind Texas, planting 1.4 million acres. Introduction of Cotton There was little indication at the time of the American Revolution (1775-83) that cotton would become an integral part of the state’s history. Georgians imported Sea Island cotton from the West Indies to the state’s coastal areas around 1785 and, after some difficulty, successfully produced small amounts of cotton.