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Brief History. Georgia was first discovered by a Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540, and first settlement was established in 1733. As a Confederate stronghold, Georgia was the scene of extensive military action during the Civil War, in which Atlanta was burned and destroyed by the Union army in 1864. The largest state in the southeast, Georgia is typical of the changing South with an ever-increasing industrial development. Principal tourist attractions in Georgia include 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, Sea Island, the enormous Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, and Cumberland Island National Seashore.
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