| February 27, 1800 |
Ellicott's Mound erected to denote the boundary between Georgia and Spanish Florida, where the St. Mary's River is formed by the Okefenokee Swamp
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| April 9, 1818 |
Andrew Jackson enters the Okefenokee Swamp in search of Billy Bowlegs (Bolek) and his band of Seminole Indians.
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| April 18, 1818 |
American troops surround the village of Billy Bowlegs (Bolek) in the Okefenokee Swamp. As they advance they find a single man - Lt. Robert Ambrister of the British Army
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| May 9, 1832 |
Treaty of Payne's Landing is signed. The treaty required that the Seminole Indians be removed to the west. A small band of the Seminoles lived in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.
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| May 27, 1838 |
40 militia skirmish with a band of Seminole, Okefenokee Swamp
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| October 29, 1889 |
Georgia legislature approves the sale of the remaining land in the Okefenokee Swamp |
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| January 1, 1891 |
Sale of 238,120 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp to the Suwannee Canal Company by the State of Georgia for $62,000. |
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| December 28, 1909 |
Henry "Obediah" Barber dies at his home in the Okefenokee Swamp
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| November 25, 1933 |
Jean Sherwood Harper writes to her former employer, arguing for protection of the Okefenokee Swamp as a wildlife sanctuary. She had worked for then President Franklin Roosevelt as a young lady. |
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| March 30, 1937 |
President Franklin Roosevelt issues an executive order creating the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. |
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| December 5, 1945 |
Five Avenger-class torpedo bombers leave Ft. Lauderdale NAS on a training flight over the Atlantic and disappear five hours later. One credible theory to the disappearance of the planes is that they landed in the Okefenokee Swamp.
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| October 4, 1948 |
Walt Kelley, a Yankee from Connecticut, published a comic strip based on characters he created earlier in his life. Pogo was set in the Okefenokee Swamp (Fort Mudge) and began to appear when Kelly was art director for the short-lived New York Star.
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