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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1894;_Stamp_Act
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| March 26, 1894 |
General Alfred Holt Colquitt dies, Washington D. C.
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| April 18, 1894 |
In a letter to Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, Anna Davenport Raines explains that both Nashville and Savannah have organizations called "Daughters of the Confederacy" and requesting permission to continue its use, unaware that the Savannah chapter had begun using the name first. |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| April 26, 1894 |
"The Lion of Atlanta," a marble statue depicting a sleeping lion and carved in Canton, Georgia, is unveiled at Oakland Cemetery. |
| May 21, 1894 |
General Philip Cook died, Atlanta, Georgia
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Philip Cook, CSA |
| June 18, 1894 |
At the depths of the depression created by the Panic of 1893, J. P. Morgan and others consolidate many railroads in the South to form Southern Railway Co.
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| July 1, 1894 |
Southern Railway Company was founded from Richmond and Danville Railroad and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad.
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| September 10, 1894 |
Begun in Nashville and Savannah, the National (later United) Daughters of the Confederacy is organized |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| October 27, 1894 |
William Yates Atkinson begins term as governor of Georgia
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Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
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| November 4, 1894 |
Georgia Tech defeats the University of Georgia in football, 22-6. This is the first game played between these traditional rivals
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| November 6, 1894 |
Cason J. Callaway born |
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Cason J. Callaway |
| November 30, 1894 |
Former governor Joseph Emerson Brown dies in Atlanta. |
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Joseph Emerson Brown |
| December 18, 1894 |
Lakewood Amphitheater is approved. It will open within a year as a "whites only" facility
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| December 26, 1894 |
Nathan Jean Toomer born, Washington D. C.
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Jean Toomer |
| December 27, 1894 |
Atlanta's Kimball Opera House burns. It had served as the state capitol at one time.
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