Movers Directory of Moving Companies in Georgia
 About Georgia If Georgia is on your mind for your relocation, remember a man called Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, who first traveled parts of Georgia in 1540. After obtaining a royal charter, Gen. James Oglethorpe established the first permanent settlement in Georgia in 1733 as a refuge for English debtors. The largest state in the southeast, Atlanta is its largest city as well as the communications and transportation center for the Southeast and the area's chief distributor of goods. Paper and board, tufted textile products, and processed chicken are some of the State produce. Other major manufactured products are transportation equipment, food products, apparel, and chemicals. From its vast stretches of pine forests come more than half of the world's resins and turpentine and about 75% of the country’s requirement. Marble, kaolin, barite, and bauxite are some of the products Georgia is famous for. When relocating in Georgia, make it a point to visit the following tourist attractions: the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Andersonville Prison Park and National Cemetery, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the Little White House at Warm Springs where Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945. Here are some more facts about Georgia aimed to make you more familiar with the State: • State Motto: Wisdom, justice, and moderation • Nicknames: Peach State, Empire State of the South • Origin of name: In honor of George II of England • Coca-Cola was born in raised in Atlanta • CNN - the 24 hour, international news juggernaut is headquartered in the State. • At Stone Mountain, north of Atlanta, gigantic statues of Confederate heroes Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson are carved into 825 feet high granite. • Gainesville, Georgia likes to call itself "the Chicken Capital of the World” where within city limits it's illegal to eat chicken with a fork. • Athens, Georgia is the site of the first university in America chartered and supported by public money. |
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