Georgia is a beautiful state with Appalachian Mountains encompassing the top of the state, the rivers and lakes running through it, the farming fields in-between and the Atlantic Seashore along the eastern edge. It isn't as old as some of the other original Thirteen Colonies and sometimes we forget how far South the Colonies reached. James Oglethorpe, a Englishman, founded the British colony on February 12, 1733. He envisioned it as a refugee for debtors and the poor. 

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It took a huge turn when the plantations were set up through out the state. From this wealth, the first women's college, Wesleyan College, was started in Georgia in 1836. This is two hundred years after men started earning degrees at Harvard. Talk about progressive and they were even provided with a classical education that was equivalent to what the men were learning. The problem was that only white women from a well breed family could attend. In 1864, Sherman burned the newly created railroad city Atlanta to the ground. The Union Army ripped across the state through Macon and onto the coastal city of Savannah. After the war, Georgia rebuilt the city and cared on. It would be another 100 years before the vale of segregation fell in the South. 

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Today, Georgia is a beautiful diverse state with so much to see and share with the rest of us.

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