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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. 

Ongoing 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 2011

Meetings are free and open to the public.

 

Sunday
January 16, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Athens-Clarke County Library Auditorium

An Enduring Legacy
by Dr. Al Hester

Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson were elected to represent Clarke County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1868.
Dr. Hester also examines the intimidation and abuse that former slaves in Georgia endured following the war.

Sunday
April 10, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Athens-Clarke County Library Auditorium

Book signing
afterward

The Ku Klux Klan in Athens Georgia, in the 1920s
by Dr. Nancy K. MacLean, Duke University

The award-winning author of "Behind the Mask of Chivalry", Dr. MacLean will discuss the power and impact of the KKK in Georgia in the 1920s.

 

Sunday
May 15, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Athens-Clarke County Library Auditorium

The Forts on the Oconee
by Steven Scurry

A number of forts were built along the Indian frontier of up-country Georgia to protect the white settlers from attacks by the native tribes.

 

Sunday
October 16, 2011
2:30 p.m.
Chicopee Bldg.
1180 East Broad St., Rm 2002

Chicopee and the
Cook & Brother Armory

by Andrew Clyde, Clyde Armory

Explore the history of the Cook & Brother Armory during the Civil War and what happened after the war.
Gary Doster will sign
new books before and
after meeting.
Enter near the historical marker

Sunday
January 15, 2011
2:30 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art

Georgia Bellflowers:
The Furniture of
Henry Eugene Thomas
by Ashley Callahan

Tour of exhibition to follow
 

 

Future meetings will be posted
as they are announced.

Meeting notification by email.

 

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Oconee Hill  book makes a great gift!
Order your copy now!

 

Pete McCommons, Flagpole, Dec. 2:
" ... this book is a family bible for the city, whose past citizens are hereby rescued from anonymity and restored to permanence through these annals."

 


 

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