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The first agricultural experiment station and farm were established at Savannah in 1735.
Georgia was the first colony to cultivate grapes.
Georgia was the first state to charter a state university: The University of Georgia (1785).
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin near Savannah in 1793. Georgia was the first state to commercially grow cotton and the first to run a successful cotton mill.
The first silk from the colonies was shipped from Savannah and made into a dress for the Queen of England.
American cattle were first exported from Savannah in 1785.
The Elberta peach, developed by Samuel Rumph and named for his wife, greatly popularized peaches in northern markets.
Georgia was the first state to create a state Department of Agriculture.
The first southern School of Forestry was established at The University of Georgia in Athens in 1906.
The first state forestry center and forest fire laboratory were established at Macon in 1959.
Information courtesy of Education Support Services of The University of Georgia Extension Service, the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service, Athens, Georgia, the American Farm Bureau and Georgia Farm Bureau.
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