amount to 176,732 pounds— sent mainly to Britain and 

 Scotland for manufacture. 



Colonial Georgia tobacco was considered very hard 

 on the land. It was customary then to grow tobacco 

 on plots of land until the yields began to decline. At 

 this point the fields were abandoned as more fertile 

 land was required. In those days, before the Revolu- 

 tion, the tobacco was hauled in hogsheads over dirt 

 roads and down to the Savannah River, near present- 

 day Augusta, where it was loaded onto boats for over- 

 seas shipment. There is one road near Augusta which 

 is still marked "Tobacco Road." 



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rom revolution to constitution 



The people of Georgia were very much involved in 

 the revolutionary fervor that spread throughout the 

 colonies. In May of 1775 the powder magazine at 

 Savannah was seized and the weapons and munitions 

 were sent to the Continental Army. In 1776 Georgia 

 instructed her delegates to the Continental Congress 

 to vote for independence from Britain. 



Georgia sufi^ered heavily during the Revolution. Both 

 Savannah and Augusta were occupied by the British 

 forces who inflicted much destruction during their stay. 



Fourth of the original 13 states to ratify the Consti- 

 tution, Georgia ceded her territorial claims, modern- 

 day Alabama and Mississippi, to the United States 

 Government on January 2, 1788 at a state convention 

 in Augusta. 



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