The Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village (formerly the Georgia Agrirama) is the state’s official museum of agriculture. A living history museum located in Tifton, the ninety-five-acre site offers a traditional farm community of the 1870s, a progressive farmstead of the 1890s, an industrial complex, and a rural town, as well as other attractions. The idea for the museum grew out of a conversation between Ford Spinks, a former state senator, and Rosalie Shepherd, the widow of James L.

The men’s basketball team at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro has had a colorful history and is among the top teams currently competing in the Southern Conference. Georgia Southern’s men’s basketball program can trace its origins to the late 1920s, when the university was known as Georgia Normal School. In their inaugural season, 1926-27, the “Blue Tide” posted their first victory, a 26-7 decision over Benedictine. The team subsequently was known as the “Professors” until the late 1950s, when they adopted the Eagles as the school mascot.

The Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park in Cordele County was established in honor of U.S. veterans. The park offers a museum featuring wartime memoribilia, as well as a lodge, conference center, and golf course. 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.

Virtually all species of wading birds and waterfowl native to the Southeast can be found in the Okefenokee in some season. Sightings of great egrets, wood storks, blue herons, and white ibises are common. 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.

In 1786 an act of the state legislature set aside the western lands of Washington County to create Greene County and its seat, Greenesborough (later Greenesboro, then Greensboro), which was incorporated in 1803. Taking its name from Nathanael Greene, a general in the Revolutionary War (1775-83), Greensboro served as the commercial center of one of Georgia’s most important cotton-producing counties. The city’s history illustrates the struggle, common to many small towns in the rural South, to emerge from the shadow of a cash-crop monoculture.