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The Georgia Room will be displaying Bill Baab’s glass bottle collection during the months of April and May. Bill Baab is a CSRA resident and author (Augusta on Glass) and has been collecting bottles of various sizes and styles since … Continue reading →

The Augusta Genealogical Society will be hosting a “Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Preservation” workshop at the Augusta Museum of History on Thursday, April 4 at 3pm. The workshop will be presented by Beryl Morgan, owner of Beryl Morgan Scrapulescence: http://www.berylmorgan.com/id75.html.  … Continue reading →

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA (3/28/13) – The Augusta Museum of History is pleased to announce the special hours that the Museum will be open and available for visitors during Master’s week: Sunday, April 8, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, … Continue reading →

Join Aiken State Park (Windsor, SC) on March 23, 2013 at 2 p.m. for a special program devoted to park’s African-American legacy. The program will talk about the African-American detachment of the Civilian Conservation Corps and tour some of the … Continue reading →

We look forward to seeing you at our March regular meeting at 6:30 in the Conference room of the Burke County library. We are very excited to have Christine Miller-Betts, Executive Director of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum, as our … Continue reading →

The Paine College History Club students will present free tours at Cedar Grove Cemetery this Saturday, March 9, at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Each tour will have historical re-enactments of famous African Americans buried at Cedar Grove. For … Continue reading →

  The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar on Tuesday, March 12th at 2pm. The webinar is titled, “loc.gov: Using Our Nation’s Library Online.”  According to the website, webinar attendees will “explore one of … Continue reading →

Just a reminder that the Georgia Room is hosting a Civil War tour at Magnolia Cemetery this Saturday, March 9 at 2pm. We will meet at the main entrance and the tour will be conducted by Russell Liner, our in-house … Continue reading →

In preparation for a class later this spring, I’ve been searching out hair and eye color, length of life and any other physical tidbits I can find. I’m putting this information on an ancestry chart. The results have been very … Continue reading →

Dr. Leslie J. Pollard, retired Calloway Distinguished Professor of History from Paine College, will be speaking  on his manuscript on African American doctors in Augusta in the late 19th/early 20th century tonight at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 2230 … Continue reading →