Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at the founding and general history of southeast Georgia and Bulloch County. The Rev. Thomas Adiel Sherwood, in his geographical “Gazetteer of the State of Georgia” (1827), wrote that Georgia had three very different physical regions: the area above the 35th parallel; the area between the 35th and the 33rd parallels; and the area below the 33rd parallel. As to Bulloch County, Statesboro itself lay at 32 degrees north latitude, placing it on an approximate parallel with the modern cities of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; Hamilton, Bermuda; Isfahan, Iran, and even Benghazi in Libya.