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Henry McNeal Turner

first Black Chaplain in the US Army who organized First A.M.E. Church

Louis Persley

First Black architect registered with GA State Board, built First A.M.E. Church

First United Methodist Church

church whose enslaved congregants founded First A.M.E. Church

First Presbyterian Church

congregation that met on North Campus until 1855

John Gilleland

designer of double-barreled cannon

99 Feet

Height of city hall from base to weather vane

8 Feet

Wingspan of eagle on City Hall cupola

First American Bank and Trust

Old federal building that housed a post office and courthouse beginning in 1906

Women’s soccer, volleyball, and rhythmic gymnastics

1996 Olympic trials held in Athens

E.D. Harris

Pharmacy owner in Morton Building

W.H. Harris

Physician and druggist who worked in Morton Building, one of the founders of the GA State Medical Association for Colored Dentists, Physicians, and Druggists

Myers Building

40 Watt Club original location

YWCA Building

original location of Stevens Thomas House

Ralph Snow

Mayor of Athens during UGA desegregation

First Presbyterian Church

birthplace of First Baptist Church in January 1830

Stevens Thomas

local businessman and real estate dealer whose parents were among the first settlers in Athens, secretary and general agent of Southern Mutual Insurance Company post Civil War, trustee at UGA, and member of Board of Directors of GA Railroad

Project Renew

Nonprofit founded by First A.M.E. that bought Hiram House

Reese Street School

original name of Athens High and Industrial School

Athens High and Industrial School

Georgia's first four-year public high school for African-American students, Established in 1916-1917 and accredited in 1922

S.F. Harris

Principal of Athens High and Industrial School who ensured classes were taught in both academics and trade

Major John J. Knox

white Freedman’s Bureau agent who directed reconstruction in Athens

American Missionary Association

organization that funded the Knox Institute

Reverend Floyd Hill

first minister of Hill First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church

Congregation enslaved worshipers split from to found Hill First Baptist Church in 1867

Howell Cobb

Governor of GA beginning 1851, Congressman 1854, Secretary of Treasury 1857, President of Provisional Confederate Congress

T.R.R. Cobb

Cofounder of UGA School of Law, Founder of Athens YMCA, Founder of Lucy Cobb Institute, Brigadier General in CSA, added octagonal wings, columns, and a balcony to his house inspired by his brother’s office in the Governor’s Mansion, killed by friendly fire at the battle of Fredericksburg

Oliver Hillhouse Prince

Lawyer and promotor of GA railroad who retired to Athens and bought 450 acres of land west of downtown, only to die in a shipwreck off the coast of NC the following year, leaving the land tied up in his estate for 9 years before it was broken up and sold

John Thomas Grant

man who built UGA President’s House in 1857

Benjamin Hill

mid 19th century owner of UGA President’s House who was elected to the house and senate while living there

James White

Late 19th century owner of UGA President’s House who founded First National Bank of Athens

Bradley Foundation

Organization that donated UGA president’s house in 1949

Robert Taylor

US Army Brigadier General who came from Ireland to Savannah, later moving to Athens and building a summer home to escape malaria which he sold to William Grady

William Grady

confederate soldier who was killed in the battle of Petersburg, father of Henry

Henry Grady

UGA grad who spoke on the “New South” and became a managing editor at AJC

E.K. Lumpkin

First Chief Justice of GA Supreme Court whose wife founded America’s first garden club in Athens

James Long

Father of Crawford who bought the Franklin Upson House

James White House

neoclassical house currently occupied by Delta Tau Delta

Sledge Family

Family of carpenters and woodworkers in Athens since the early 1800s

Ann Cobb

Founder of Cobbham Garden Club

Second Empire

Style of building used for the Jester House, uncommon for Southern Homes

Barry Buck

owner of Jester House and 40 Watt Club, ex-wife of R.E.M.’s Peter

Vaughn-Simpson House

Spanish Mission style house built in 1923 from a reversed plan from Leila Ross Wilburn’s plan book “Homes in Good Taste”, won an award for Outstanding Restoration

Lucy Stanton

Portrait painter famous for her miniature portraits, co-founder of GA Peace Society with Jeanette Rankin

William Lorenzo Moss

Dean of Medicine at Harvard and UGA who developed world’s first blood typing system in 1876

Jeanette Rankin

famous resident of Proctor-Benson House

Dean Rusk

Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson who moved to Athens to teach at UGA School of Law

Taylor-DeRenne House

side-hall (half of traditional Georgian style plan) house built in 1856, owner stripped all white paint and added a garden with all of the plants mentioned in Shakespeare

Cheney House

High Queen Anne style house built in 1893, first in Athens to include a bathroom in its original plan

James Hunnicut

Mayor of Athens in 1889

Hamilton House

house built by Ross Crane in 1861 in a combination of Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles, ironwork came to Savannah from Philadelphia on the last shipment before the Civil War

Lipscomb House

Home built for Mrs. Mary Ann Ruthorford-________ while she was principal of Lucy Cobb Institute, now home to Delta Sigma Phi Sorority

A.P. Dearing House

one of the first homes built in the Milledge Avenue Area, full Greek Revival Temple form

Dearing-Wilkins House

house finished in 1865 for Alfred L. _______, brother of A.P.,

Leon Henri Charbonnier

professor who bought Dearing-Wilkins House in 1886

John J. Wilkins

president of GA National Bank and American State Bank who bought Dearing- _______ House in 1909 and added two story porch and colonnade

Alpha Phi Sorority

current owners of Dearing-Wilkins House who added wing to back left side of the house

W.W. Thomas

famous Athens architect who built ______-Carithers house in 1896 based on the Neoclassical Revival designs he saw at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition

Hubert Owens

Established UGA’s landscape architecture program in 1928 and served as its only professor for the 1st nine years, became the first Dean of the School of Environment and Design in 1969

Spec Towns

1930s UGA grad who won Olympic gold in 110m hurdles and coached track and field at the university

Jennie Bell Myers

beloved housemother and namesake of Myers Hall

Mary Lyndon

First woman graduate and dean of women at UGA, has a hall named after her on Myers Quad

Mildred Rutherford

woman with 48 year career at Lucy Cobb Institute who has a building named after her on Myers Quad

Memorial Hall

hall built to commemorate students and faculty lost in WWI, site of the first gay dance at a university in the Southeast

Abraham Baldwin

first president of UGA

Old Athens Cemetary

burial site of Dr. Moses Waddel established 1810

Bishop House

one of the earliest remaining examples of Greek revival in Athens, dated 1837, formerly part of a farm and one of the first houses in Athens to have running water

Terrell Hall

building that replaced Science Hall after it burned down in 1903, finished in 1905 and incorporated Science Hall’s cornerstone

Georgian Hotel

first hotel in the Southeast to be fireproof, have an elevator, and include running water in rooms

Athens High School

building that housed ACC Courthouse until 1913