William Alexander began his coaching career at Georgia Tech in 1908, becoming head coach of the football team in 1920. Alexander led the Yellow Jackets to all four major bowl games during his career, as well as to the 1928 national championship. Courtesy of Georgia Tech Sports Information 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.

The C-141C model aircraft was designed during the late 1990s to improve upon the earlier C-141 Starlifter models. Its many technological advancements include a digital autopilot and the All Weather Flight Control System. Courtesy of Robins Air Force Base 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 musical life of antebellum Georgia is remarkable not so much for its originality—much of the music heard in Georgia was heard nationwide—but for its diversity and the extent to which it permeated the lives of the citizenry. In 1800 Georgians were still singing “Yankee Doodle” with nationalistic pride in the streets of Savannah. Sixty years later they were whistling “Dixie.” The songs stand as musical bookends to the antebellum period and illustrate the monumental and wrenching change from the youthful cockiness of a union newly formed to the calamity of disunion.

The "Home of the Big Red Apple" monument, built in downtown Cornelia in 1925, commemorates the importance of apples to the economy of Habersham 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 should be submitted to the Georgia Archives.

A number of significant historical events have occurred in Georgia during the month of April. 1700-1749 1732 King George II of England signed a charter establishing the trustee colony of Georgia. 1750-1799 1752 The   Georgia Trustees ceded control of the colony to the British crown, after twenty years of rule. 1758 Much of Fort Frederica, established by James Oglethorpe on St. Simons Island, burned down. 1788 The first annual conference of Methodists in Georgia was held near Elberton.