History

Doc Holliday had a reputation as a bad man, but one with good manners instilled in him by his mama during his childhood in Griffin, Georgia.

We’ll never know exactly when gold was first discovered in Georgia, but the first documentation of it was in August 1829 in an article in the Georgia Journal, a Milledgeville newspaper.

After the first lighthouse was destroyed in the Civil War, the current St. Simons Lighthouse and Keeper’s Dwelling was built in 1872.

Wine has been produced in Georgia since the 1700s.

A small exhibition in Eagle’s Rest Park in Jasper, Georgia on Mount Oglethorpe relays the history of the forced relocation of Native Americans in the summer of 1838.

Horton House on Jekyll Island, a tabby structure dating back to 1743, is thought to be the oldest home in Georgia.

After the Revolutionary War, Georgia had claims to large sections of territory stretching to the Mississippi River called the Yazoo Lands, but lacked the resources to protect it.

The Windsor Hotel opened in 1892 and attracted overnight visitors and local guests for balls and other grand celebrations until it closed in the 1970s. 

The peach originated in China and was traded along the Silk Route, a road that connected China to the West. By the late 1500s, the fruit arrived in the southern islands of the United States where it began its journey to becoming the state fruit of Georgia.

Every year the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation hosts two Rambles, which include tours of historic properties not generally open to the public in one town or city.