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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
SAVANNAH©S BKAtrTIFCL BOXAVENTURE CEMETERY
under Wesley. The first orphan asylum in America was built for
Whitefield. Oglethorpe placated the Indians by kindness and
just treaties, won their friendship, and saved his people from the
bloody massacres and outrages that were experienced in other
early settlements.
In 1752 the trustees of the colony relinquished their charter,
and Georgia became an independent province, with a local assem
bly. Then the head-right policy was adopted, giving to every male
200 acres of land, with 50 acres additional for each child. That
was the true foundation of Georgia©s industrial prosperity, or as
some one said "that placed the rock of conscious independence
beneath our feet, and the crown of industrial glory upon our
head."
Then, too, came the Puritans, 350 of them, with their bibles,
hymn books and 1500 slaves. The bars to slavery had been let
down by Oglethorpe©s successor, as a necessity of successful
competition with the sister colonies. This particular group of
Puritans was an offshoot of the flock at Dorchester, Massa
chusetts, and 56 years before had migrated to South Carolina,
First Sunday School in
the world, established
by John Wesley in
Savannah, and perpetu
ated by George White-
field at "Bethesda," by
which name the famous
first Orphan Asylum in
America is known
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A hundred and fifty
miles of coast, as the
crow flies, and numbers
•of good harbors put
Georgia in touch with
the ports of the world;
every advantage of the
Panama Canal is hers.
As Georgia and the
South are destined to be
come of paramount im
portance as a meat pro
ducing section of Am
erica, so from Georgia's
splendid, ports will de
part the continuous car
goes of animal food that
will appaise the hunger
of Europe.