A police officer in Brunswick stands at the ready during the G8 Summit in June 2004 on Sea Island. Security in the area around Sea Island was heightened as world leaders gathered for the annual meeting. Although some protestors were arrested, security problems did not disrupt the summit. Photograph by Staci Atkins 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.

George Foster Peabody, noted banker and businessman, left his mark on American society through his philanthropic work. He was born on July 27, 1852, in Columbus, the oldest of four children born to native New Englanders Elvira and George Henry Peabody. Peabody’s father had relocated the family from Connecticut to Columbus, where he ran a general store. Growing up in Columbus, Peabody attended private school and later studied at Deer Hill Institute in Danbury, Connecticut.

Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), which includes GPB Television, GPB Radio, and the Education and Technology Services (ETS) Division, serves Georgia by providing music, news, and educational products and services. GPB Television is affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), while GPB Radio is affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR). GPB Television In 1960 public television in the state, known as Georgia Educational Television, began with station WGTV, located in Athens at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Located 135 miles south of Atlanta in Americus, amid the lush farmland of Sumter County, Georgia Southwestern State University is a senior unit of the University System of Georgia and the alma mater of former president Jimmy Carter. History Granted 270 acres of land by Sumter County along the Seaboard Airline Railroad, the school was originally founded in 1906 as the Third District Agricultural and Mechanical School. Its primary mission was to provide male and female students over the age of thirteen skills in all aspects of farming and agricultural business as well as basic business and industrial training.

Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, a division of the Department of Natural Resources, protects more than 85,000 acres of natural beauty at more than sixty parks and historic sites in the state. The diversity of landscape within the state parks system includes inland and coastal sites of geographic importance. The Blue Ridge Mountains, with perhaps its most scenic stretch at Georgia’s Black Rock Mountain State Park, are located along the Eastern Continental Divide, while Georgia’s “Colonial Coast” encompasses a portion of the eastern Atlantic coastline and includes all the Sea Islands.