|
|
Georgia, Sweet Georgia, how we love
that song. It just keeps Georgia on our minds.
As one of the original 13 colonies that formed the United States of
America It has been on a lot of minds for a very long time. In 1785,
Georgia became the first state to charter a state funded University.
Opened in 1806 as Franklin University is now the University of Georgia,
located in Athens, Georgia.
Then there is Savannah with it's historic squares. In 1733, 24 town
squares signifying wards were designed, four were built in 1733, two in
1734, the rest followed over the next 200 years. Today 21 of those
squares are still in use. An interesting place to set up a business....
Georgia- Heart of the Old South, and the New
South
by Howard Giske
Georgia, and its capital and largest city, Atlanta
are centers of the New South and of banking and commerce. Georgia
however has many historic sites, being one of the original thirteen
colonies. Your Georgia Incorporation
could span fields of commerce, banking, tourism or agriculture.
Agricultural production includes poultry and eggs, pecans and peaches
as well as dairy products and fodder. The city of Elberton has been
called the Granite Capital of the world. The Elberton granite deposit
is 35 miles long and 6 miles wide. Elberton is a city that processes
this raw granite, the hardest stone after diamond into monuments for
graveyards, and into building materials for other uses. There is also
some textile and other manufacturing industries in Georgia. Atlanta and
its metropolitan area has a population of about 5 million, which is
over half of the state's population. Atlanta is a major banking center,
with its Bank of America Plaza building the largest building in the
Southern United States at 1,023 feet and is also the location of the
Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve. Atlanta has also been a center
of tourism going back to colonialism as well as more recently. Its
Sweet Auburn district has been preserved as a historical site of much
of the activity and preaching of the civil rights figure, Dr. Martin
Luther King. Each year 650,000 visitors see the Martin Luther King
Center for Non-Violence in Atlanta. It has an extensive library and
gift shop as well as the final resting place of Dr. Martin Luther King
and Coretta Scott King. Atlanta has a unique museum, the "World of
Coca-Cola", and Coca-Cola to this day has its headquarters in Atlanta.
Atlanta airport is one of the busiest airports in the world and has
become a hub for both Delta Airlines and for AirTran. Home Depot is
headquartered in the region, and it helped to build the Atlanta
Aquarium, which is located near Olympic Park. Several domestic auto
production plants have been shut down in the area, although Kia, the
Korean auto manufacture, is planning to build a new plant in the
Atlanta area shortly.
Gainesville, Georgia, in the northern part of the state is a center for
chicken production and chicken processing. Other large cities include
Augusta and Savannah. The port of Savannah is still an important port,
and formerly was also a center of ship construction.
Athens Georgia is the traditional state college
town of Georgia, and was formed for this purpose in 1806. The
University of Georgia started there as Franklin College, named after
Benjamin Franklin. The town, with a population of 100,000 is also a
center of art, music and the intellectual scene. The city also had the
advantage of not being in the path of General Sherman's march to the
sea during the Civil War, so its neo-classical buildings escaped
damage. It is the location of the State of Georgia Museum, and the
state botanical garden of Georgia. Your corporation involving art
sales, art production and music production may be ideal in the Athens
area. Annual reports for Georgia corporations are due ninety days after
incorporation and have a charge of $30.
About the Author
Howard Giske writes about how to get your Georgia Incorporation
and other business info at http://www.incparadise.com
Being such an old state,
Georgia has many historic buildings for the architecture buff. One of
those sites is Saint John The Baptist Cathedral in Lafayette
square, Savannah. Then in Atlanta is the headquarters and original
building made to house Coca Cola. Which of course started in Atlanta
and is still the home of their head office. |
