The University of West Georgia logo shines from the top of the Technology-enhanced Learning Center on the main campus in Carrollton. Founded in 1906 as an agricultural school, the institution became the University of West Georgia in 2005. Photograph by Steven Broome, University of West Georgia 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.

Warm Springs (2005), a film developed and produced for cable television by Home Box Office (HBO), focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s experiences from 1921 to 1928, before his election as president of the United States. It chronicles Roosevelt’s time at Warm Springs, in Meriwether County, which he first visited in 1924 after contracting polio three years earlier, at the age of thirty-nine, just as his political career was gaining momentum. The area’s springs, reputed to have healing waters, attracted the future president, who eventually funded a facility there known today as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.

William Burnham Woods, a native of Ohio, was a resident of Atlanta when he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1881. He served on the Court until his death in 1887. 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.

The restored Italian villa-style house known as 700 Broadway was the only two-story brick home in the original city of Columbus. The structure dates to the 1830s. Courtesy of Historic Columbus Foundation 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.

The state of Georgia earned the nickname “The Empire State of the South” in the antebellum period largely because of its textile industry. From 1840 until 1890 the state consistently led the South in textile production, the leading manufacturing sector of the United States in the years before the Civil War. Georgia’s entrepreneurs began to experiment in factory-based industry between 1809 and 1820, but they failed in their first three attempts: the Bolton Factory in Wilkes County, Schley’s Factory in Jefferson County, and Jacob Gregg’s Factory in Morgan County.