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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1895
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| January 1, 1895 |
Art Gillham is born |
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Art Gillham |
| March 4, 1895 |
Augustus Bacon begins serving in the United States Senate
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Augustus Bacon |
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Bacon County, Georgia |
| April 21, 1895 |
Judge Frank Arthur Hooper, Jr born, Americus, Georgia (Sumter County). |
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Frank A. Hooper |
| August 13, 1895 |
The county seat of Fannin County is moved from Morganton to Blue Ridge. |
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Fannin County, Georgia |
| September 18, 1895 |
Booker T. Washington makes his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the opening of the 1895 Piedmont Cotton Exposition (Atlanta).
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Piedmont Park |
| October 8, 1895 |
The Liberty Bell arrives from Philadelphia to be displayed at Atlanta's Piedmont Cotton Exposition
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Piedmont Park |
| October 15, 1895 |
Two inventors, C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate the "Phontoscope," a primative version of a motion picture projector at the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta
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Piedmont Park |
| October 21, 1895 |
On "Negro Day" at the Atlanta Exposition, Professor John Wesley Edward Bowen expounds on the achievements of African Americans, including a plea for education and a vision of a "new Negro" who has the desire and potential to aid further in building the nation.
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| October 27, 1895 |
President Grover Cleveland visits the Piedmont Exposition (Atlanta)
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Piedmont Park |
| October 27, 1895 |
Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show appears at the Piedmont Exposition
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Piedmont Park |
| December 4, 1895 |
Coca-Cola is now sold in all 46 states of the Union according to company president Asa Chandler
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| December 10, 1895 |
City of Douglas incorporated
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Coffee County, Georgia |
| December 14, 1895 |
The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, which had been in receivership since 1879, is conveyed to the Central of Georgia Railway
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| December 16, 1895 |
The area around Sweetwater State Park, long known as Manchester, is renamed College Park
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| December 31, 1895 |
Cotton Exposition closes after entertaining more than 800,000 people in just over 3 months.
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Piedmont Park |
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