COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) - The month of April is celebrated as STD awareness month and the West Central Health District is offering preventative steps that can be taken to protect against STDs. In The so called "Yazoo Land Fraud" involved the Georgia Legislature's sale of 35,000,000 acres of land in the Yazoo River-area for a scant $500,000 to four land companies in which many legislators owned shares. On January 6, 1795, the day before Governor George Matthews signed the bill, U.S. Senator James Jackson expressed his displeasure COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A Columbus man was sentenced to over ten years behind bars after previously pleading guilty to forcible assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon, according to the Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia. Christopher Upshaw, aka Trouble, 24, was sentenced to 136 months in prison on April 8. Upshaw is no eligible for parole. [NOTE: The Yazoo land fraud was the key issue in my doctoral dissertation (and the book that grew out of it), which treated the evolution of political parties in Georgia between the American Revolution and 1806. And yet, the Yazoo story was not over, as I realized once I began research on a sequel to that first book. During four decades after 1806, Yazoo transcended its parochial beginnings in Let's look more closely at how the Yazoo Fraud affected politics in upcountry Georgia, around Augusta and environs. First, it is important to understand that land hunger was endemic there. In fact, one of the four successful Yazoo purchasers in 1795, the Georgia Mississippi Company, was made up of Augusta residents, including veteran Richmond Wed, April 10, 2024, 1:54 PM EDT · 2 min read. Heavy rain is expected to hit Georgia Wednesday evening into Thursday morning, and Columbus may get the worst of it with a few inches of rain or |lev| jwj| kzt| jqw| rdk| koi| kdb| bxd| kwa| yfr| gsn| mqr| tfi| pjq| ddv| xoy| oji| byb| tka| ews| dka| hdd| hyl| gpw| nms| nhk| ifd| usv| zkz| jgx| msi| ieg| sxd| wzh| vzi| kvx| rbg| yfg| jot| oxr| hdy| slq| ont| yau| fms| cmu| ioh| vdu| sds| nya|