A writer and tireless campaigner for progressive reforms, especially women's rights and woman suffrage, Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. From Prominent Women of Georgia, edited by J. B. Nevin 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.

Roy Hall was one of the most important early stock car racers, memorialized in the Jim Croce song "Rapid Roy, That Stock Car Boy." He dominated the stock-car racing scene in the Southeast and Midwest in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Association Incorporated 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.

Samuel Dowse Bradwell, a Civil War veteran, opened Bradwell Institute in Hinesville in 1870. The school, founded as Hinesville Academy by Bradwell's father, James Sharpe Bradwell, had been closed during the war. Today the institute operates as a public high school. Courtesy of Mark Howell 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 Shakers, whose official name is the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, were called Shakers or “Shaking Quakers” because they would sing, dance, shout, and shake in an attempt to “shake off evil” during their religious meetings. Founded in England in the 1750s, the group first arrived in the United States in 1774, and in the late nineteenth century a short-lived colony was established in coastal Georgia.

Peter Tondee and his business partner built a silk filature on Reynolds Square in 1759. The building served multiple public functions before it was destroyed by fire in 1839. Courtesy of Carl Solana Weeks 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.