Athens, Georgia, seems the quintessential southern university town, its geography chiseled over geologic time by its lifeblood, the slow-flowing Oconee River, and its culture sustained for over two centuries by the state's bustling center of learning and research, the University of Georgia. A multitude of influences have powered the emergence of Athens from its eighteenth-century rustic solitude ...
In 1850 and again 1860, the U.S. government carried out a census of slave owners and their property. Transcribed by Mr. Cox, the 1850 U.S. census for Georgia is important for two reasons. First, some of the slave owners appearing here do not appear in the 1850 U.S. census of population for Georgia and are thus "restored" to the population of 1850. Second, and of considerable interest to ...