Smooth Traveler: Chronicling Georgia’s counties (part two)
May 14, 2016
ABOVE PHOTO: Sunbury view By Renée S. Gordon Georgia’s soil and climate were conducive for farming from the initial settlement in 1733. Oglethorpe enlisted the advice of the region’s Native Americans, used some of their agricultural techniques and even founded a 10-acre botanical garden to test and introduce new seed variants from the area and…