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Named the Bugaboo Scrub Fire, by May 31, it had burned more than 600,000 acres (240,000 ha), or more than 935 square miles, and remains the largest wildfire in both Georgia and Florida history. [5] [6] In 2011, the Honey Prairie Fire consumed 309,200 acres (125,100 ha) of land in the swamp. [7]
In Georgia's Gold Lottery of 1832, Philip J. Crask won 40-acre (160,000 m 2) Lot 929 in District 18 of the Second Section and paid $18 grant fee. [3] In 1837, Lot 929 was sold at an auction for $12.50 to John Boyle, who in 1845 sold it for $500 to Charles J. McDonald of Cobb County, a former governor of Georgia, and Colonel James Rogers of ...
The Valley of the Drums is a 23-acre (9.3-hectare) toxic waste site in Brooks, Kentucky [2] in northern Bullitt County, near Louisville. It became a collection point for toxic wastes starting sometime in the 1960s. It caught the attention of state officials when some of the drums caught fire and burned for more than a week in 1966.
The forest is approximately 35,000 acres and is the largest state forest owned and managed by the Georgia Forestry Commission. The forest is mostly made up of pine plantations consisting of slash pine , longleaf pine , and loblolly pine as well as wetlands consisting of pondcypress , swamp blackgum , sweetbay magnolia , loblolly bay , and other ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The rapper opened up about returning to his 235-acre farm in Georgia to recharge. Rick Ross is in his farm […] The post Rick Ross finds joy on the farm he calls the ‘Promise Land’ appeared ...
A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma. Okefenokee Swamp: 1974: Charlton, Clinch, Ware
The real estate crowdfunding platform AcreTrader has launched a new offering for a 246-acre corn and soybean farm located in Randolph County, Georgia. Fountain Bridge Farm is located in the ...