Documents for property transactions are recorded at the county level in the Superior Court clerk’s office. You may review property ownership records by visiting the clerk of court and requesting a copy of the deed for the property.

Those eligible for one draw were: bachelor, 18 years or over, citizen of US; soldier of Indian War, residence in GA during or since service; widow; family of one or two minor orphans, father and mother dead; family of minor orphans, father dead, mother living; invalid or indigent veteran of Revolutionary War or War of …

The headright system grants between 200 and 1,000 acres of land to the heads of families. By giving men land, they were able to obtain power. Farmers soon came looking for fertile farmland. Ranchers also flocked to Georgia in search of grazing areas for their livestock.

Georgia was worried about the Cherokee claim to be a separate nation. The Cherokee had begun to stage attacks on American settlers. The Cherokee helped free enslaved African American workers. Prospectors wanted the land because gold had been found there.

The economic prosperity brought to Georgia through staple crops like rice and cotton meant an increasingly heavy dependence on slave labor.

Native American slaves included captives from wars and slave raids; captives bartered from other tribes, sometimes at great distances; children sold by their parents during famines; and men and women who staked themselves in gambling when they had nothing else, which put them into servitude in some cases for life.

What happened to farmers when the war ended? When the war ended, farmers were faced with a series of disasters. Cotton demand dropped, causing cotton prices to fall to half of what they had been. The boll weevil devastated cotton crops, and then in 1925 one of the worst droughts of the century occurred.

Dust storms on the Great Plains, was the worst environmental cataclysm to happen during the Great Depression.

First, the state experienced its worst drought on record in 1930-31. As the depression wore on, the defects and negative trends of cash-crop agriculture became magnified. The typical Georgia farm family had no electricity, no running water, and no indoor privies.

Cotton is a water intensive crop that requires almost 75 lakh liters of water per hectare. That’s roughly 40,000 liters per day, considering a six month life cycle, i.e 4 tankers of water every day.

Cotton does NOT require excessive amounts of water. In fact, cotton uses less water than many other major crops produced in this country. Only 35% of U.S. cotton acreage requires some form of irrigation-the rest of the cotton land is supplied by natural rainfall.

IT IS now generally admitted that the world is confronted with a serious shortage of American cotton. It has taken three successive years of failure to convince the cotton trade that the conditions under which the American crop was produced in the past have changed radically and permanently.

Researchers have pinpointed a dominant genetic mutation that makes cotton bollworms, one of the world’s most destructive crop pests, resistant to genetically engineered cotton. The study’s cutting-edge use of genomics and gene editing signals a new era in global efforts to promote more sustainable pest control.