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tures titled “Timucua smoking game in Florida” depicts Native Americans cooking animals on a barbacoa. The first illustration of a barbecue is in the state of Georgia.
1st BBQ celebration given for a
colony; Georgia by General
Oglethorpe 1732, Georgia 1564
James Oglethorpe was a soldier and a
visionary humanitarian. As a member
of the British Parliament he peti-
tioned the English authorities to
grant him land between Charleston
South Carolina and Spanish Florida
for resettlement of the poor and im-
provised English families. He envi-
sioned a colony where working
families would support themselves on
small farms and provide a buffer
against the Spanish in Florida. He also banned slavery in the new colony. Oglethorpe and the new colonists arrived in Charleston SC in 1732 and were treated to a huge barbecue, full of dancing and welcome speeches. The last of the origi- nal 13 colonies and the first to be kicked off by a barbecue is the state of Georgia.
1st BBQ event internationally reported; Atlanta Cotton Exposition 1881
In the past US cities would hold expo- sitions to showcase new technologies to attract commercial investments and tourism. Atlanta hosted three of these events to secure its position as the capital of the New South. The Cotton States and International Expo- sition was held in 1881, 1887, and 1895 in what is now Piedmont Park. One million visitors from twenty dif- ferent countries were treated to a va- riety of sights and sounds including the first motion picture called the Phantascope. A highlight of the event was the Georgia style barbecue hosted by the best-known barbecue man at that time, Sheriff John Callaway who oversaw and sold barbecue meals at the international pavilion. At the At- lanta Exposition a fee was charged to
cover the meal and represents one of the first commercial of- ferings of barbecue, and certainly the first to serve barbecue to such multiple of guests from so many corners of the world. The event was captured on the pages of several newspapers and magazines published around the world. Harper’s Weekly ran a story in March 1895. In 1898 Reporter John R Watkins of The Strand Magazine in London, England wrote “England has its roast beef and plum pudding dinners, Rhode Island its clambakes, Boston its pork and beans, but Georgia has its bar-
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