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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCUU_the-athens-double-barrelled-cannon_Athens-GA.html
This cannon, the only known one of its kind, was designed by Mr. John Gilleland, a private in the "Mitchell Thunderbolts," an elite "home guard" unit of business and professional men ineligible because of age or disability for service in the Confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9EZ_gospel-pilgrim-cemetery_Athens-GA.html
The Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery was founded in 1882 by the Gospel Pilgrim Society, a fraternal organization, to furnish respectable funerals and burial places for Athens-area African Americans. Popular in the nineteenth century, such societies offset …
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/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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5T3_camak-house_Athens-GA.html
On March 10, 1834, a group of Athens men met in this house, then the home of Mr. James Camak, to accept the charter of the Georgia Railroad Company and to organize the corporation. At this meeting Mr. Camak was elected its president, and he soon b…