Today is Georgia Day

Today is Georgia Day - for thousands of years Native tribes lived in this area as it was the territory of both the Creek and the Cherokee nations, but in the 1730's European Americans began to settle in Georgia. On January 19, 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union and joined other Southern states on February 8, to form the Confederate States of America. Georgia contributed nearly one hundred twenty thousand soldiers to the Confederate war effort. During the broad-based activism of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, the city of Atlanta, Georgia became the base of African-American leader, minister Martin Luther King Jr. This State has a long history, which we will learn more of shortly, but first let's consider some of their silly laws - did you know . . . 

• It is illegal to keep a donkey in a bathtub.
• No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.
• Owners of mules may not allow their animal to roam around Athens-Clarke County unsupervised.

You will find more silly laws - along with the reasons for them, at this link. Now for some interesting facts about Georgia - did you know . . . 

• Georgia was the only one of the 13 colonies that prohibited slavery.
• The global beverage Coca-Cola was created in Georgia by a pharmacist named John Stith Pemberton in 1886.
• The state of Georgia is popularly referred to as the “Peach State.”

You will find more information about Georgia at this link.