Andersonville Civil War Prison

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Andersonville Civil War Prison

• Location
• Andersonville, GA Sumter County
• What is the significance of this place?
• It was the largest POW prison in the South
  during the Civil War.
• Why should this place be preserved?
• I think that Andersonville Civil War
  Prison should be preserved because people can
  learn many things from here. They could learn
  how bad the conditions were in the prison, and
  roughly how many soldiers were imprisoned there.

www.cr.nps.gov/seac/andecon.htm
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3 Interesting Facts about Andersonville Civil War
Prison

• The prison was intended to hold 10,000, but by
  August 1864 the camp held 32,000.
• Health problems caused 12,912 deaths by the end
  of the war.
• The prison covered 26 ½ acres.

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Chief Vann House Home to James Vann

• Location
• Spring Place, GA Murray County
• What is the significance of this place/person?
• Feared by many, and loved by few,
  was a quote often used to describe James Vann.
  He was a wealthy plantation owner, and and member
  of the Cherokee Triumvirate. James had three
  wives and five children. In 1808, he shot and
  killed his
• brother-in-law in a duel and was killed
  himself the following year.
• Why should this place be preserved?
• The Chief Vann House proves that
  Cherokee Indians were not tee-pee savages. If
  destroyed, it would be a loss to the Cherokee
  Nation.
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http//home.alltel.net/vannhouse
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3 Interesting Facts about the Chief Vann House

• In 1843, the house was seized by the government
  and awarded to a white man in a land lottery.
• The house was built by James Vann in 1804, making
  it 200 years old.
• The house is decorated with many beautiful hand
  carvings and features. The most remarkable is
  the floating staircase.

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Fort Morris

• Location
• Hinesville, GA
• What is the significance of this place?
• Fort Morris was built in the 1750s to
  protect the seaport town, Sunbury during the
  Revolutionary War.
• Why should this place be preserved?
• Fort Morris should be preserved because
  people can compare the military defense tactics
  to todays.

(movie) Sunbury Sleeps The forgotten Town of
Sunbury, Georgia
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3 Interesting Facts about Fort Morris

• 45 days after Col. John McIntosh told the British
  to, COME AND TAKE IT,Fort Morris surrendered on
  January 9,1779.
• Fort Morris had and army of 159 continentals and
  45 militia.
• Sunbury exported lumber, rice,indigo, corn and
  other goods, and was the 2nd largest port on the
  South-Eastern Coast.

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New Echota

• Location
• Calhoun, GA
• What is the significance of this place?
• New Echota was the Capital of the Cherokee
  Nation.
• Why should this place be preserved?
• Just like the Chief Vann House, New
  Echota proves that the Cherokee Indians were
  civilized people.

Encyclopedia
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3 Interesting Facts about New Echota

• New Echota was the site of the 1st Indian
  language newspaper
• The signing of the treaty that relinquished
  Cherokee claims to lands east of the Mississippi
  River was held there.
• New Echota was the assembly of I Cherokee Indians
  for the removal West.

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Etowah Indian Mounds

• Location
• Calhoun, GA
• Why is this place important?
• The village at Etowah established relations
  with nearby Woodland Indians as well as Mound
  Builders from Ocmulgee.
• Why should this place be preserved?
• The Etowah Indian Mounds should be preserved
  because they are sacred to the Indians.

http//ngeorgia.com
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3 Interesting Facts about the Etowah Indian
Mounds

• When Hernado desoto arrived in 1540 archeologists
  think that the Mississippian culture was in
  decline, and the Etowah Mounds site was abandoned
• The name that the Creek and the Cherokee Indians
  used for the site was Hightower.
• The mounds contain more than one type of Indians
  there, unlike most Indian burial grounds.

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Little White House

• Location
• Warm Springs, GA
• What is the significance of this place?
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt built the Little
  White House in 1932, prior to being inaugurated
  as president in 1933.
• Why should this place be preserved?
• The Little White House should be preserved
  because it is a former vacation home for Franklin
  D. Roosevelt.

http//gastateparks.org
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3 Interesting Facts about theLittle White House

• He came to Warm Springs in 1924 hoping to find a
  cure to polio that he got in 1921.
• During Franklin D. Roosevelts presidency and the
  Great Depression, he developed many New Deal
  Programs based upon his experiences in this small
  town.
• While posing for a portrait on April 12, 1945,
  FDR suffered a stroke and died a short while
  later.

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