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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Image 3: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negro grocery store. Savannah, Georgia. Prices posted outside] by Marion Post Wolcott (1939). From the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/resource/fsa...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Image 2: “Negro grocery store. Savannah, Georgia” by Marion Post Wolcott (1939). From the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/resource/fsa...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Image 1: “Negro grocery store. Savannah, Georgia. Prices posted outside” by Marion Post Wolcott (1939). From the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/resource/fsa...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

During the Great Depression, Marion Post Wolcott traveled across the state documenting life in Georgia. These three photos all show an African American grocery store in Savannah. The site of the grocery store is now underneath Interstate 16.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This map shows one of four sections that were created of the old Cherokee County in 1830. The land was split into lots, and given to settlers in a lottery at the same time as the Trail of Tears. This map shows the Cobb and Cherokee county areas.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Image: [Credentials of Delegates to the Congress from Georgia] (1775). From the National Archives and Records Administration (catalog.archives.gov/id/464819439...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All but Jones (due to the death of his father) traveled to Philadelphia to take their seats, though only Hall served longer than one year.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Georgia did not send any delegates to the First Continental Congress, but did send representatives to the Second. Georgia’s Provincial Congress created this document to certify the election of Archibald Bulloch, John Houston, John Joachim Zubly, Noble Wimberly Jones, and Lyman Hall in 1775.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Image: “Spalding County Courthouse, Griffin, Ga.” published by the Curt Teich Company for the Southern States Printing Company (c. 1955). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This Spalding County Courthouse was designed by noted Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown and opened in 1911. It was used for seventy years before being destroyed by a fire in January 1981. A replacement building was opened nearby in 1985.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This stained-glass window was designed for Georgia Tech’s Brittain Dining Hall in 1928. It was designed by Georgia native and Tech graduate Julian Harris. The figures in the window represent sciences such as chemistry, architecture, and engineering.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Image: [$5 banknote] by the Western Bank of Georgia (c. 1854). From the Trustees of the British Museum (www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...)

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banknote | British Museum

Banknote ($5).

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Although it is unclear how, this note eventually made its way to England, where it is in the British Museum collection.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Until the Civil War, banks printed their own money, and many financial institutions in Georgia did too. This example is from the Western Bank of Georgia and is dated 1854. The bank was based in Rome.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More about Ann and her husband can be found in “Button Gwinnett: Signer of the Declaration of Independence” by Charles Francis Jenkins. Images: “Will of Ann Gwinnett, Widow of Georgia, South Carolina” (1785). From the National Archives, Kew (beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id...)

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Will of Ann Gwinnett, Widow of Georgia , South Carolina

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Button was killed in a duel in 1777, and Ann moved from Georgia to Charleston. It is not known when she died, though her administrator settled her estate in 1785.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ann Gwinnett was from Staffordshire, England, and was the wife of Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia’s signers of the Declaration of Independence. This document is her will from 1780.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Image: “City Auditorium, Macon, Ga. Largest Copper Covered Dome in the World.” (c. 1930). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Macon City Auditorium was opened in 1925 and is well known for its copper dome. As noted on this postcard, it was claimed to be the largest copper dome in the world. Over 100 years later, the Auditorium is still home to concerts and other major events.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Image 2: “Ninety-two-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter waves good-bye following his Sunday School lesson at the Maranantha Baptist Church in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia” by Carol M. Highsmith (2017). From the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/resource/hig...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Image 1: [Jimmy Carter makes a campaign stop in his hometown of Plains, Georgia] by Thomas J. O’Halloran (1976). From the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jimmy Carter is perhaps the most influential Georgian of the last 50 years. Born in Plains on October 1, 1924, he served as governor of our state from 1971 to 1975, before serving as president from 1977 to 1981. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and passed away at age 100 in 2024.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Johnson served as a Confederate senator during the Civil War and retired from politics after the war’s end. He died in 1880. Image: “Herschel Vespasian Johnson” (c. 1860-65). From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...)

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Herschel Vespasian Johnson | National Portrait Gallery

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Herschel Vespasian Johnson served as Georgia’s governor from 1853 to 1857 and was Stephen Douglas’ running mate in the 1860 election. Douglas and Johnson lost to Abraham Lincoln, and Johnson afterward supported secession.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Image: “Archibald Bulloch, Governor of Georgia” (c. 1790). From the Smithsonian American Art Museum (www.si.edu/object/archi...)

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Archibald Bulloch, Governor of Georgia | Smithsonian Institution

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This miniature painting is traditionally identified as Bulloch, though it is now known to have been made after his death. Because of this, the Smithsonian American Art Museum notes that it may actually depict one of his sons.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Born in Charleston in 1730, Archibald Bulloch was the first provisional governor of Georgia. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1777, only eight months into office. One of his great-great-grandsons was President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Starting today, I am taking a brief break from posting. New posts will resume on Sunday.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

National Center for Civil and Human Rights: www.civilandhumanrights.org/wp-content/u... and www.civilandhumanrights.org/unearthing-t... Georgia State University: digatl.library.gsu.edu/resource/vei... National Council on Public History: ncph.org/history-at-w...

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Georgia Encyclopedia: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/his... Fulton County Remembrance Coalition: www.fultonremembrance.org/remembrance-...

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For resources about its history and legacy, see these sources below:

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the most infamous instances of racial violence in Georgia, the Atlanta Race Massacre, took place on September 22, 1906. Over 25 individuals were killed, a vast majority of whom were African American, and countless more individuals were injured.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Image: “View of the Public Square of Atlanta, Georgia” by Nathan Abbott and Henry Eno (c. 1865). From the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University (digital.library.emory.edu/catalog/013m...)

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View of the Public Square of Atlanta, Georgia - Emory Digital Collections

The digital front door to the unique cultural heritage and scholarship material from Emory Libraries. Discover, view, and download images, books, and more from our campus repositories.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of these sites were several blocks away from each other, not as close as they are shown in the lithograph.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Atlanta’s city hall, shown on the right side of the print, was several blocks away where the Georgia State Capitol is today. The house on the left side of the image is the Calico House, built in 1859 near the corner of Courtland and Wheat (now Auburn) streets.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This lithograph from around 1865 shows Atlanta’s public square. Atlanta’s only public park during this period was State Square, located close to the railroad depot at Wall, Pryor, Decatur, and Lloyd (now Shirley C. Franklin) streets.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The focus in the book is on state governments and their tourism offices, though some of Atlanta’s pioneering tourism marketing is also explored. Overall, the Carter era is shown here as a period of transition in southern tourism and regional identity. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Great Times Down South: Deep South Tourism Promotion in…

Great Times Down South examines advertising materials f…

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Valenzani looks at four states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina) and how they sought to present Southern tourism after the Civil Rights era. He shows how older depictions of plantation homes and southern belles were gradually replaced by a more diverse and modern presentation.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Book Review: “Great Times Down South: Deep South Tourism Promotion in the Carter Era” by Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani This short and engaging book looks at how tourism evolved in the South during the Carter Era.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Image: “State Capitol, Atlanta, GA [leather postcard]” (pre-1907). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Georgia State Capitol building was finished in 1889 and was designed by the firm of Edbrooke and Burnham. Because it is one of the state’s most recognizable buildings, it has been featured on countless postcards and souvenirs. This unique example is a postcard made of leather.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Image: “Fred M. Vinson with Senator Josiah Bailey and Senator Walter George” (1945). From the Harry S. Truman Library (catalog.archives.gov/id/350297841)

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The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On the right side of this picture is Walter F. George, who represented Georgia in the US Senate from 1922 to 1957. George was an important leader in the Senate during WWII and supported the United Nations, though near the end of his career, he was known for his pro-segregation actions in the Senate.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Image: “STEWARD A. M. E. CHURCH, MACON, GA.” from the book “Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914” by T. G. Steward (1921). From the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (docsouth.unc.edu/church/stewa...)

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In 1865, Steward Chapel AME Church was started in Macon at the start of Reconstruction. Their church is named after Theophilus Gould Steward, a member of the Buffalo Soldiers who was instrumental in the congregation’s early years. Their historic sanctuary is still standing on Macon’s Forsyth Street.

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Peach State Past @peachstatepast.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This newspaper was published on September 13, 1764, in Savannah, and offers a glimpse of life during that period of Georgia's history. The first page features news from other colonies, while the remaining pages include advertisements for land sales, freedom seekers, agricultural products, and more.

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