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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 55
Altitudes, Population and Farm
Ownership
Within the borders of the State of Georgia are nine recognized
zones of temperature, corresponding to the varying levels from
.the sea to the 4,728 foot tip of its highest mountain. Over half
of the State is in the coastal plain, with an altitude of 5 feet
or less. North of this is the so-called Piedmont Plateau, a belt
of a hundred miles or so wide, with altitudes from 350 to 1,200
feet. In the northern section are the real mountains, with their
GOOD COUNTRY ROAD, DEKALB COUNTY
The thriving city of
Fitzgerald, in Middle
South Georgia, now of
10,000 population, is
unique in that it was
founded in the piney
woods in 1895 by a col
ony of Federal soldiers
and their families, froM
the North, under the
leadership of P. H. Fitz
gerald, of Indianapolis.
Inspired by memories of
the balmy air and sun
shine, and the bounti
ful crops of Georgia dur
ing their hasty march to
the sea with General
Sherman, they planned
and built the new city
on ideal lines, and
there, amid the bustle
of commerce, many
comrades of the blue
and gray, in vigorous
old age, are daily fra
ternizing.