History

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season! Every year around 200 million cookies are sold, representing around $800 million in revenue.

Believing in the need to educate its young people after the American Revolution, Georgia was the first state to charter a state university.

Three years into the Revolutionary War, the British turned its focus to the South and capturing the port of Savannah.

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The mansion, abandoned when the capital moved to Atlanta, later became the founding building for Georgia Normal & Industrial College.

For UGA students, stories of hauntings are just a part of the school’s culture but perhaps no haunting is as tragic as that of Waddel Hall.

Lake Lanier’s history is as murky as its deep waters. The lake has always been controversial, and some believe that it’s also haunted.

Doc Holliday had a reputation as a bad man, but one with good manners instilled in him by his mama during his childhood in Griffin, Georgia.

We’ll never know exactly when gold was first discovered in Georgia, but the first documentation of it was in August 1829 in an article in the Georgia Journal, a Milledgeville newspaper.

After the first lighthouse was destroyed in the Civil War, the current St. Simons Lighthouse and Keeper’s Dwelling was built in 1872.