The middle support of a covered bridge, built by Horace King in 1838 near West Point (Troup County), is pictured underwater today. Courtesy of West Georgia Underwater Archaeological Society. Photograph by Laura Knight 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 courthouse in Douglas County was completed in 1998 to replace an older courthouse constructed in the 1950s. Today the old courthouse, located on the site of three previous courthouses, houses a museum and the offices of the Douglas County Historical Society. Photograph by Jimmy Emerson, DVM 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.

Ellis Merton Coulter, a University of Georgia professor and historian of the South, helped shape the southern public’s interpretation of its heritage in general and Georgia’s in particular. He taught at the state’s flagship university in Athens from 1919 to 1958 (serving as chair of the history department from 1940 until retirement), edited the Georgia Historical Quarterly for fifty years, and produced 26 books, 10 edited volumes, more than 100 articles, and numerous book reviews and newspaper columns.

Designed by the architect J. H. Russell and built in 1872 by William Pitt Eastman, this is the oldest house in the town of Eastman; it was constructed of heart pine milled from trees on William Eastman's land. Today, it is owned by the Dodge Historical Society, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Photograph by Harold B. Haley 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.

Electric cooperatives (co-ops), also known as electric membership corporations (EMCs) or rural electric membership corporations (REMCs), have served Georgia’s rural regions and counties since the mid-1930s. In 2016 forty-one individual co-ops, all members of the umbrella organization Georgia EMC, provided electricity to 157 of the state’s 159 counties, or approximately 73 percent of Georgia’s land area. Rural Electrification Administration In  1935, during the Great Depression, only about 10 percent of rural Americans had access to electricity, in contrast to 90 percent of urban Americans.