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Historic Sites in Georgia
Explore 27 historic places in Georgia, from museums and landmarks to destinations connected with defining events and eras in American history.
Historic Destinations in Georgia
Allatoona Pass Battlefield
Cartersville, GA
A preserved Civil War battlefield and railroad pass with original earthworks, trenches, monuments, and connections to both the Great Locomotive Chase and the 1864 Battle of Allatoona.
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Bloody Marsh Unit
St. Simons Island, GA
A compact battlefield overlook marking the 1742 clash that helped end Spain's attempt to seize the British colony of Georgia.
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Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
Fort Oglethorpe, GA
A multi-unit national military park preserving the landscapes of the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga and Battles for Chattanooga across northwest Georgia and southeastern Tennessee.
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Chief John Ross House
Rossville, GA
A preserved Cherokee-associated log house in Rossville connected to Principal Chief John Ross and the history that culminated in Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears.
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Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home
Rome, GA
The National Historic Landmark home of Cherokee leader Major Ridge, interpreting the Ridge family, the Treaty of New Echota, and the difficult choices surrounding Cherokee removal.
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Chief Vann House State Historic Site
Chatsworth, GA
An exceptionally preserved early nineteenth-century Cherokee mansion that interprets the Vann family, Cherokee life, enslavement, and the pressures that preceded forced removal.
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F.D. Roosevelt State Park
Pine Mountain, GA
Georgia's largest state park combines Pine Mountain scenery with places tied to Franklin D. Roosevelt and major Civilian Conservation Corps projects.
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Fort Frederica National Monument
St. Simons Island, GA
Ruins of an 18th-century British military town and fort that helped secure colonial Georgia against Spanish expansion from Florida.
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Fort King George State Historic Site
Darien, GA
A reconstructed 1721 British frontier fort on the Altamaha River interpreting early colonial rivalry, Indigenous and European encounters, and the origins of Darien.
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Fort McAllister State Park
Richmond Hill, GA
A scenic park on the Ogeechee River preserving one of the Confederacy’s best-preserved earthwork forts and the site where Sherman’s March to the Sea reached its final major military objective.
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Fort Morris State Historic Site
Midway, GA
Preserved Revolutionary War earthworks overlooking the Medway River, remembered for the defiant 1778 reply, “Come and take it!”
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Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion
Milledgeville, GA
A landmark Greek Revival mansion in Milledgeville that served as Georgia’s executive residence from 1839 to 1868 and witnessed the state’s antebellum, Civil War, and early Reconstruction history.
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Green-Meldrim House
Savannah, GA
A richly detailed Gothic Revival landmark on Savannah’s Madison Square that became General William T. Sherman’s headquarters after the March to the Sea.
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Horton House
Jekyll Island, GA
One of Georgia's oldest surviving tabby structures, built in 1743 for colonial military leader William Horton on Jekyll Island.
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw, GA
A major National Park Service battlefield preserving miles of Civil War earthworks, historic landscapes, museum exhibits, and hiking trails from the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
Atlanta, GA
A National Park Service district preserving the Atlanta places where Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, worshipped, lived, and emerged as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
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National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Atlanta, GA
An immersive Atlanta museum connecting the history of the American Civil Rights Movement with continuing struggles for human rights around the world.
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New Echota State Historic Site
Calhoun, GA
The preserved site of the Cherokee Nation's nineteenth-century capital, where national government, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Treaty of New Echota, and the road to removal converged.
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Pickett's Mill Battlefield State Historic Site
Dallas, GA
One of Georgia's best-preserved Civil War battlefields, with original earthworks, wooded trails, a museum, and the ravine where Union attacks were repulsed in 1864.
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Resaca Battlefield Historic Site
Resaca, GA
A preserved Civil War battlefield where trails and earthworks interpret the first major battle of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
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Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site
Warm Springs, GA
Franklin D. Roosevelt's preserved Warm Springs retreat pairs a presidential home and museum with the place where he sought relief from polio and died in 1945.
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South-View Cemetery
Atlanta, GA
A historic Atlanta cemetery founded by Black Atlantans in 1886 and closely connected to generations of African American civic, religious, military, and civil rights history.
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The Brown House Museum
Sandersville, GA
An 1850 Sandersville house museum preserving Washington County history and the home used as General William T. Sherman’s headquarters during his 1864 March to the Sea.
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The Herndon Home
Atlanta, GA
A landmark Atlanta residence that preserves the story of Alonzo and Adrienne Herndon and the rise of one of the city’s most influential Black business families.
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Tunnel Hill Heritage Center & Museum
Tunnel Hill, GA
A northwest Georgia heritage site where visitors can explore an 1850 railroad tunnel, Civil War artifacts, and the historic Clisby Austin House.
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Warm Springs Historic District
Warm Springs, GA
A National Historic Landmark district where Franklin D. Roosevelt's rehabilitation work, presidential retreat, and pioneering polio-treatment community reshaped Warm Springs.
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Wormsloe State Historic Site
Savannah, GA
A celebrated oak-lined historic landscape preserving the tabby ruins of Noble Jones's colonial estate on the Isle of Hope.
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Road Trips Through Georgia
From Chattanooga to Atlanta: Georgia's 1864 Campaign Corridor
Follow the rail corridor and battlefield landscapes that frame the Union advance from the Chattanooga region toward Atlanta and the struggle to hold its supply line.
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Forts and Frontiers: Georgia's Colonial Coast
Follow Britain's contested Georgia frontier from an early Darien outpost through Frederica and Bloody Marsh to colonial settlement and Revolutionary defenses near Savannah.
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Cherokee Nation to Removal: A Northwest Georgia Journey
Trace Cherokee political life, leadership, prosperity, resistance, and forced removal across four northwest Georgia sites tied to the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears.
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FDR's Georgia: Warm Springs and the New Deal
Spend a day in the Georgia landscape that became Franklin D. Roosevelt's refuge, political laboratory, and enduring New Deal legacy.
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Sherman's March to the Sea: Milledgeville to Savannah
Trace Sherman's 1864 March to the Sea from Georgia's wartime capital through a documented headquarters stop to the capture of Fort McAllister and occupation of Savannah.
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Atlanta's Black Freedom Story: Enterprise to Civil Rights
Explore Black enterprise, civil-rights leadership, movement history, and remembrance across four major Atlanta institutions and historic places.
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