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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Q3_robert-toombs-oak_Athens-GA.html
A majestic oak tree once stood on this spot and one of the University's most endearing legends also flourished here.
Robert Toombs (1810-1885) was young, and boisterous when he was dismissed from Franklin College in 1828. Five decades later it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7O0_dr-william-lorenzo-moss-birthplace_Athens-GA.html
William Lorenzo Moss, medical researcher and physician, was born in this house at 479 Cobb Street in Cobbham on August 23, 1876. Crawford W. Long was the attending physician. Dr. Moss received his B.S. degree from the University of Georgia in 1897…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7NY_olympic-games-in-athens_Athens-GA.html
In summer 1996, Athens, Georgia, shone as the largest Olympic venue site outside Atlanta, as the state hosted the Centennial Olympic Games July 19 - August 4. Some 650,000 visitors bought tickets to events at three University of Georgia venues: so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7KY_first-flight-in-georgia_Athens-GA.html
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 built his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7KX_ben-t-epps_Athens-GA.html
Ben T. Epps - Georgia's First in Flight — designed, built and in 1907 flew the first airplane in the State of Georgia. He was born in Oconee County, educated in Clarke County, and attended Georgia Tech. A self-taught aviator, aircraft design…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7KW_louis-h-persley_Athens-GA.html
Originally from Macon, Georgia, African-American architect Louis H. Persley attended Lincoln University, and graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1914. Persley then joined the faculty of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama . One of his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7JX_herty-field_Athens-GA.html
This marker overlooks the site of the first intercollegiate football game played in the state of Georgia and one of the first to be played in the deep south. On January 30, 1892 Georgia defeated Mercer College 50 to 0 on the stubbly grounds that s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7JO_holmes-hunter-academic-building_Athens-GA.html
On Jan. 6, 1961, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first two African American students to enroll at the University of Georgia when they walked past the historic Arch and into this building to register for classes. On this day, Januar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM79L_the-red-and-black_Athens-GA.html
Student published the first issue of the University of Georgia's campus newspaper, The Red and Black, on Nov. 24, 1893, from offices in the Academic Building [now the Hunter-Holmes Academic Building]. The tabloid boosted school spirit, promoted at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM79K_cook-brother-confederate-armory_Athens-GA.html
To this building in 1862 was brought the machinery of the armory established in New Orleans at the outbreak of the War by Ferdinand W.C. and Francis L. Cook, recent English immigrants, the former a skilled engineer for the manufacture of Enfield r…