South Georgia State College

Georgia History

Okefenokee Swamp Miscellaneous Information

Archival Number: SGSC A 50-1-3

Size: 1 folder

History:

Inventory:

 Photocopy of a selected reading from “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans” titled “The Lays of Many Lands, The Stranger in Louisiana” and “The Isle of Founts, An Indian Tradition”

 Photocopy of a selected reading titled “The Okefenokee Swamp: It’s History and Legends, Canals and Drainage Projects” by E. Merton Coulter

 Photocopy of a selected reading titled “The Okefenokee Swamp: It’s History and Legends, Natural History” by E. Merton Coulter

 Newspaper – South Georgia Business Journal, v. 2, no. 2 April 1990, Published by the South Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Front Page featured article “Okefenokee Swamp Park draws the tourist”

 Section 1E of the Macon Telegraph, Sunday, May 19, 1991. Featured article “SWAMP creatures, Crew in canoes got taste of the wild Okeefenokee”

 Photocopy from Life, dated May 12, 1941, “Life visits Okefenokee Swamp”

 Printed out webpage from Family.com, accessed on January 26, 1998, Family Fun Magazine, Titled “Exploring the Okefenokee” by Candyce H. Stapen. (2)  Section L of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sunday, May 25, 1997. Featured Article “Paddling into the Primeval, Unchanged for eons, the awesome Okefenokee evokes an unparalleled sense of beauty, serenity” by Susan Soper, Staff Writer.

 Photocopy “Major Elements of the Harper Cooke Pleistocene Marine Origin Theory”

 Photocopy of map by Chris Trowell dated 1978 of several islands in the Okefenokee Swamp.

 Photocopy of map by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge of Suwanee Canal Recreation Area, Inc.

 Photocopy of the Executive Order from Franklin D. Roosevelt, dated March 30, 1937, establishing Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge Georgia. Faxed from U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Realty. (2)