The architect Cecil Alexander, a founding partner of the firm FABRAP, and his second wife, Helen, pictured at their home in Atlanta in 2007. Reprinted by permission of Stephen H. Moore (http://www.shmoore.com/) 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.

Henri Christophe was a leader in the war for Haitian independence (1791-1804), and from 1807 to 1820 he served as the ruler of northern Haiti. Some historical sources credit him with serving in a French unit during the Siege of Savannah. Painting by Richard Evans, circa 1818. From The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, by S. Kaplan and E. N. Kaplan 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.

Henry McDaniel, a respected lawyer and businessman, served one term as governor of Georgia. His enduring accomplishments as governor include the construction of the state capitol in Atlanta and the establishment of the Georgia College of Technology (later the Georgia Institute of Technology). Henry Dickerson McDaniel was born in Monroe, in Walton County, on September 4, 1836, to Rebecca Walker and Ira Oliver McDaniel. McDaniel moved with his family to Atlanta at the age of eleven and in 1856 graduated from Mercer Institute (later Mercer University), where his father had once been a professor.

Designated a historic site and state park in 1979, the Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation is among the last remaining vestiges of nineteenth-century rice plantations that flourished along the Georgia coast. The plantation dates to 1806, when William Brailsford began acquiring land in the cypress swamps of the Altamaha River. His purchases included a river estate named Broadface, which he renamed Broadfield. Brailsford was later joined by a son-in-law, James M. Troup, and by the time of Troup’s death, their holdings had grown to 7,300 acres of land and several houses.

James D. Bulloch, the primary naval agent of the Confederacy in Europe, oversaw the building of several ships designed to ruin Northern shipping during the Union blockade of the South. Image from Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography (1913), The Macmillan Company 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.