| Camera Maker | Canon | Camera Model | Canon EOS-1D Mark II N |
| Aperture | f/11 | Color Space | Uncalibrated |
| Exposure Value | 0 EV | Exposure Program | Program |
| Exposure Time | 1/500 sec | Flash | No Flash |
| Focal Length | 32 mm | ISO | 400 |
| Metering Mode | Pattern | Date/Time | 2007:03:08 12:59:57 |
| Copyright | © 2007 Jason O. Watson. All rights reserved. | Orientation | 1: Normal (0 deg) |
| Resolution Unit | Inch | X Resolution | 300 dots per ResolutionUnit |
| Y Resolution | 300 dots per ResolutionUnit | Compression | Jpeg Compression |
| Exposure Mode | 0 | Keywords | travel United States of America United States America USA US Georgia GA history historical historic historical marker famous landmark road side highway popular Place of Interest Places of Interest Tourist Attraction Tourist Attractions Tourist Destination Tourist Destinations Travel Destination Travel Destinations tour tourism tourist attraction destination Sign Signs American Day Daytime Historical Sites Vertical Education Historical Site Marker Markers Outdoor Outdoors Outside Road Road Signs Roadside Roadsign Morgan County Madison William Tappan Thompson journalist author Ohio Augusta Augustus Baldwin Longstreet State Rights Sentinel Mirror Macon Family Companion and Ladies' Mirror Major Jones Southern Miscellany Major Jones' Courtship Savannah Morning News |
| Caption | WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON William Tappan Thompson, famous Georgia journalist and author, was born in Ohio in 1812. Moving to Augusta in 1835, he became associated with Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in the publication of the State Rights Sentinel. In 1838 he founded a literary journal, the Mirror, which in 1842 was merged with a Macon periodical, the Family Companion, to become the Family Companion and LadiesÕ Mirror. The first Major Jones letter appeared in one of the last issues of this journal. In 1843 Thompson took over the editorial direction of the Southern Miscellany, a Madison publication. In the pages of the Miscellany he printed more of the Major Jones letters, using the people and incidents of Madison as a basis for many of his sketches. These letters met with such success that Thompson published them in book form in 1843 as Major JonesÕs Courtship. Thompson left the Miscellany in 1845 and continued his career as journalist and author. In 1850 he founded the Savannah Morning News, which he edited until his death in 1882, building it into one of the stateÕs most powerful newspapers. Georgia Historical Commission, 1963 |