USMS should make this a contest. Whoever comes closest should get a t-shirt or something.
I don't know how many were in Austin (as I had to bail at the last minute), but I'll say Atlanta will be a little smaller (I don't think as many are coming from the west coast compared to Austin), so how about 1791.
Hmmm, if I'm doing the birth year thing that makes me 219. Yep, that's about how old I feel today. That works. :agree:
Awww...yes...the glorious early years of the state of Georgia as a prison colony.
Haha! Glad to see thewookiee has surfaced.
Actually, the idea about prisoners being sent there is somewhat of a myth. Georgia was set up as a place for the "worthy poor" to rehabilitate themselves. Hard alcohol was forbidden for the first twenty years. Also, lawyers were not allowed to live within the city limits of Savannah. Alcohol and lawyers got these folks into the situation they were in back in the mother country, so they weren't about to let these things be a part of their new life in Georgia.
Of course, you would never know now that hard alcohol was at one time banned.
Georgia was set up as a place for the "worthy poor" to rehabilitate themselves.
The unworthy poor were sent to populate Tennessee, specifically in and around the area formerly known as Goat Gigging Holler, now known as Chattanooga.
Did I ever mention that I am dyslexic? Yes, it's true. See, I meant to guess 1971, but instead typed 1791. So I was really only 4 off.
:lmao:
(Don't want to look at the sheets yet)
Thanks Alison...now no one will ever visit me here!!! Like they would anyway huh??? LOL
I don't think you have any worries there, Tracy :) Can't wait to see you in 4 weeks.
