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THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL
MODERNIZATION AT THE STATE LEVEL
GEORGIA'S EXPERIENCE:
Richard Combes, Georgia Tech Research Institute,
Georgia Institute of Technology
EARLY GEORGIA HISTORY
- 1732 - Colony founded by Oglethorpe
- Plantation agriculture thrived
- 1860 - leading cotton producing state with largest
slave population
- 1865-1879 - state economy was devastated, with
little industry
- 1880 - "New South" industrialization