2008 Official Georgia Travel Guide

CLASSIC SOUTH countryside. There are numerous parks throughout the region that offer great riding trails with scenery that will relax your soul. Town Plantation in Louisville, where you can experience life on a plantation. Bag your own bag of cornmeal at one of several operational grist mills including the ogeechee River Grist Mill in Warrenton or the mills at George L. Smith State Park in Twin City and at Hamburg State Park in Mitchell. James Brown Memorial Statue, Augusta Knocking on History’s Door Looking for the quintessential whitecolumned mansion? Tour the Robert Toombs House Historic Site in Washington, featuring the sweeping home An Old Sweet song Music has deep roots in the Classic South region. Augusta is well-known as James Brown’s birthplace and has a Hickory Hill, Thomson special tour of the sites and locations that the Godfather of Soul frequented throughout his career. In addition to the Godfather of Soul, the city was the longtime home of contemporary opera star Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Grovetown is the hometown of country singer Terri Gibbs, and Blind Willie McTell, who launched his legendary blues career through Victor Records in Atlanta in 1927, was born in Thomson. “America’s First Family of Bluegrass Lincolnton’s Lewis Family Homecoming and Bluegrass Festival in May. Augusta’s Riverwalk makes the perfect setting for June Jazz on the River, and the Columbia County Concert Series in evans is a local favorite. GDecD Jessye Norman, recipient of the 2006 GDecD and gardens of the planter-turned-congressman, or Hickory Hill, the grand Thomson home of author, publisher and statesman Tom Watson. Augusta features Meadow Garden, one of Georgia’s few remaining Gospel Music” performed its inaugural show as The Lewis Family in 1951. The region’s musical legacy lives on in events like Thomson’s Blind Willie McTell Blues Garden City Augusta’s dazzling botanical displays delight the senses, but the city also cultivates its strong cultural roots and nurtures the development of a fresh creative community. The downtown area is alive with music, arts, shops and countless culinary pleasures. The historic Augusta Canal, still used for electrical power generation, is a designated National Heritage Area in which history rubs shoulders with modern recreational activities. Journey through 12,000 years of local history at the Augusta Museum of History or see what life was like as a tobacco merchant at the ezekiel Harris House. Festival and Crawford Lexington Tignall 18th-century buildings and Washington Lincolnton Philomath residence of George WalClarks Hill Lake ton, the youngest signer of Union Point the Declaration of Indepen- Greensboro Crawfordville Appling Evans Martinez 20 dence; the Boyhood Home Norwood Thomson Augusta Lake Grovetown of President Woodrow Wil- Oconee Warrenton Dearing Harlem 520 son; and the Lucy Craft Laney Jewell Museum of Black History, Lake Sparta Mitchell Wrens Sinclair where a collection of AfriWarthen can-American art and historical exhibits are housed in its namesake’s former home. In Washington, you can pick cotton, help with farm chores and get a true taste of antebellum life at Callaway Plantation, one of the region’s most authentic working plantations. Spend the night at old GEORGIA.ORG • 1-800-VISIT GA 16 Classic South Sandersville Bartow Wrightsville Waynesboro Louisville Wadley Midville Millen Augusta’s Riverwalk is lined with restaurants and shops offering visitors a place to enjoy some of the unique attractions that are located along the scenic Savannah River. The National Science Center’s Fort Discovery has more than Official Georgia Travel Guide Swainsboro Twin City 95 http://www.georgia.org

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