I stumbled on this site this morning and found a lot of Georgia History. Thought I should share it with you. Winnette CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Georgia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06460a.htm Scroll down to this: CIVIL HISTORY The swamps and pine lands of Georgia, the last colonized of the original thirteen American settlements, were all but untrod by the feet of white men before the eighteenth century. Tradition has it that De Soto, in his ill-starred march to his grave in the Mississippi, camped for a while in 1540 near the present city of Augusta; a more unreliable tradition asserts that Sir Walter Raleigh, on his initial voyage, "landed at the mouth of Savannah River, and visited the bluff on which the city was afterwards built". For a century and a half the Uchees, Creeks, and Cherokees were left undisputed masters of their hunting-grounds -- Lords of the Marches -- between the English frontier to the north and the Spanish to the south.