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Athens Historical Society, Inc.

P.O. Box 7745, Athens GA 30604-7745
Website:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gaahs/

 

The Athens Historical Society was founded in 1959 and is dedicated to preserving the history of Athens, Clarke County and the surrounding area. The Society is a non-profit organization under federal 501(c)(3) regulations.

Membership in the Society offers informative quarterly meetings (typically the third Sunday of January, March, May and October), interesting projects, newsletters and other opportunities for learning more about the Athens area. Other publications issued by the Society include books, a map and a color video tour of 21 historic homes in Athens.

We welcome to our membership anyone interested in documenting and preserving the history and heritage of the Athens area. 

Oncoming projects include the R.E.M. in Perspective: An Athens History DVD; Athens on film, the Athens and Clarke County photo project.

AHS Meeting Schedule for 2009

Meetings are free and open to the public.

Sunday
January 18, 2009
Georgia Museum
of Art 2:30 p.m.
 

The University, Athens and
Georgia's Hidden War

Steven Scurry, historian

Sunday
April 19, 2009
Seney-Stovall Chapel

 

Tales of a Happy Wanderer
Fred Birchmore, native Athenian
click here for newsletter

 

Sunday
May 17, 2009
3:00 p.m.
Athens-Clarke Co. Library Auditorium

On the Home Front:
Life in Athens during World War II
panel discussion
click here for newsletter

Sunday
Nov. 22, 2009
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Taylor-Grady House
634 Prince Avenue
Athens
 

50th Anniversary
Celebration & Reception

Oconee Hill Cemetery
Volume I

by Charlotte Thomas Marshall

click here for the Nov. newsletter (PDF)

Sunday
Dec. 13, 2009
3:00-5:00 p.m.

AHS Christmas Party
Home of Blair and Betsy Dorminey
357 Hill Street, Athens

click here if you want to bring a treat

Sunday
January 17, 2010
3:00 p.m.

Athens-Clarke County Library Auditorium

Looking Back Over 50 Years
Show & Tell


Don't forget to bring your items to show!

Meeting notification by email.

 

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America's First Ladies' Garden Club 1892

 

 

 

 


 


America's first ladies garden club met in the E.K. Lumpkin home on Prince Avenue in 1892.

 

 

 

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