The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-04-30
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP
OF AREA IN GEORGIA

A may of an area around Glenn
vile, Ca, which was recently survey
ed by the United States Geological
Survey, Department of the Interior,
in cooperation with the War Depart
ment, has just been published by the
Geological Survey. The horizontal
scale of the may in about / inch to
the mile and the contour interval is
10 feet.
The may covers 240 square miles
of fiat country near the western bor-
der of the Atlantic Coastal Plain in
Georgia, ae region which is identified
with it's full share of the earlier his
tory of the republic Most of the
area mapped lies between elevations
of SO to IT'S feet above the sea. The
lowest part of the area is the bottom
land of Altamaha River, southwest of
which steep slopes, 100 feet high,
lead. to the nearly fiat upland. North
of the river there is a lowland, Z
miles or more wide, whose surface
stands at an elevation of less than
100 feet North of this lowland
there are moderate steep slopes, SO
feet or more high, which lead to an
upland whose surface stands at about
the same elevation as that Of the up
land southwest of the river, 100 to
IT'S feet.
The may shows parts of Liberty
Tatnall, and Wayne counties, a
stretch of Altamaha River, and the
thriving town of Glennville, which
has population of 500. The eli
mate in this region is very mild;
SHOWS are rare, and excessive heat in
summer is unusual. The soil, light
sand and underlying clay, yields
good deal of cotton, which is shipped
over the Southern Railway to the
port of Brunswick. The area con-
tains immense tracts of fine timber,
which furnishes lumber and turpen-
tine. The turpentine is produced in
numerous small stills, some of which,
it has been related, take in occasion
al side orders of apple-jack or corn
juice.
In early spring and early summer
the Altamaha, generally a sluggish
and ORDERLY stream, often overfows
its banks and covers the entire valley,
reaching a width of about five miles.
When the river is neither too high
nor too low a diminutive steamer fol-
lows it's meanderings through the
swamp, stopping here and there to
pick up small burdens of freight, and
then descends the river to the sea.
The Coastal Plain of Georgia-the
youngest of the thirteen original Sta
ties of the Union-was settled nearly
two hundred years ago by the Eng
lish under General Oglethore, who re-
Iceived from the Crown a land grant
that included practically all the area
of the State. In those days thirty
or forty million arres of American
territory was Of small value to Eng
land, especially as the management
Iof her American possessions caused
her no title worry. Duding the sec
ond generation after this settlement
George Washington simplifed Eng
lands colonial problems by taking
the American Colonies off her hands.
John and Charles Wseley preached
in the lowlands of Georgia and found
ed church there, and Pulaski re-
ceived his mortal wound at Savannah.
General Washington once made
visit to this area, thus giving to fu-
ture generations here a subject of
conversation which has not yet been
entirely exhausted. The eastward
sweep of Sherman's forces during the
Civil War in his famous march to
the sea came perilously near the area
shown on this map.
The may of the Glennville quad
rangle can be purchased for 10 cents
from the Director of the United Sta
ties Geological Survey at Washington,