Your job is to research the geographical locations of your group's assigned historical
figure. You must be able to explain where your figure came from, where he or she traveled to, and also, significant locations your historical figure traveled to that was important to Georgia's history.

Click here to print your research sheet for the geographer role.

Here are some great websites to get you started. Do not forget that you can also go to the library and you can use your social studies book as well. Once you have reasearched all you can about your figure meet back with the rest of your group.

Internet Links

This site provides a map with names of Indian tribes located across Georgia.
http://www.native-languages.org/georgia.htm


This site lists important streets in Georgia that are linked to Martin
Luther King, Jr.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-802


Geographical information about James Oglethorpe is provided here.
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/ga.htm


Mary Musgrove's geographical information is here.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-688


Geographical information about Jackie Robinson is located here.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/robinson/index.shtml


Jimmy Carter's geographical history is located here.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/tguide/index.html

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