An old photograph of Savannah marking Yamacraw Bluff, the spot 

 where Oglethorpe and his small band of colonists first landed 



Cotton could produce much greater profits for farm- 

 ers than any other crop cultivated in the state and 

 cotton "mania" raged throughout Georgia successfully 

 for a long time. 



In 1818, for example, Savannah exports of tobacco 

 amounted to some 1,500 hogsheads. In 1826 total to- 

 bacco exports from that port came to only 170 hogs- 

 heads. Around 1845 there was some experimentation 

 with a Havana-type cigar tobacco. Cigar tobacco 

 growth was developed in Georgia around this time and 

 made further expansions around the turn of the century. 



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