Mount Clare, the Georgia Plantation

In the late 1760’s, the Mount Clare mansion was built by Charles Carroll, Barrister and his wife, Margaret Tilghman, as their summer home. The mansion was located on the grounds of the original plantation, Georgia, and included an orangery, orchards, ...

First Flight in Georgia

Site of Ben Epps' Garage

Georgia’s pioneer aviator, Benjamin Thomas Epps, was born in Oconee County in 1888. He opened Athens’ first automobile repair garage at this location on East Washington Street in 1907. That same year, nineteen-year-old Epps designed and ...

Central of Georgia

Depot and Train Shed

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national signifance

in commemorating the history of the

United States

1977

National Park Service

United States Department of Interior

Marker is on Martin Luther King Boulevard near Louisville Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Home of Alice Harrell Strickland - Georgia's First Woman Mayor

Alice Harrell Strickland (1859-1947) and her husband Henry built this home in 1898. The Stricklands raised seven children before Henry’s death in 1917. Mrs. Strickland then became a community leader. With her service as Mayor of Duluth in 1922-23, she ...

Georgia’s First School of Medicine

The property on which the Widows Home is located was the site of Augusta’s first City Hospital. Constructed in 1818, the hospital provided for the “sick poor” of Augusta and later evolved into the present University Hospital. At City Hospital, ...

First Synagogue in Georgia

At this location on July 21, 1820

Congregation Mickve Israel consecrated

the first synagogue to be erected

in the State of Georgia

—

This tablet authorized by the Savannah-Chatham County

Historic Site and Monument Commission

Marker can be reached from ...

First Cotton Mill In Northwest Georgia

Three Walker County businessmen, Andrew P. Allgood, Spencer S. Marsh and Col. W.K. Briers, officially organized the Trion factory Oct. 12, 1845. It has had few shut-downs since its first production in 1847. In 1858 an epidemic, in 1864 Sherman's ...

Georgia Warm Springs Foundation

These gates mark the original entrance to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, established in July 1927 by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O’Connor for the treatment of polio victims. Roosevelt himself suffered from polio beginning in 1921. Learning of the ...

Goggans, Georgia

Goggans was named for the family of John F. Goggans. He donated the land for the railroad station, general store, where the post office was located, and access land to the Union Primitive Baptist Church. At different times, the town ...

Last Land in Georgia Ceded by the Creeks

Bowdon is near the geographical center of the last land in Georgia owned by the Creek Nation and ceded to the U.S. This tract, approximately 550 sq. mi. in area, is 80 mi long and 10 mi. wide at its ...