Mobil Travel Guide: Coastal Southeast 2007 (Forbes Travel Guide: Coastal Southeast)

Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were three of the 13 original colonies that ultimately became the United States. Discover Georgia's complicated colonial, Civil War, and Native American history at the many historical sites, museums, and monuments. While it's now a major economy and vibrant vacation spot, Georgia retains some of its beloved antebellum gentility, and boasts one of the oldest planned cities in the US, Savannah. South Carolina also draws tourists who learn about its turbulent and romantic history of colonial and Confederate times and, of course, luxuriate along its subtropical seacoast. In the diverse state of North Carolina, you can take a dip in the Atlantic Ocean, hike through the Black Mountain Range of the Appalachians, and drive past fields of tobacco, cotton, peanut, and vegetable farms.