Accommodations
Hospitality and southern style can be found in Milledgeville from quaint Bed & Breakfast Inns to over 600 hotel rooms as well as spacious camp grounds. Whether you would like to meander on a white-columned porch while sipping a glass of ice tea or experience comfortable, inviting accommodations with just the right amount of amenities we have everything you need!...
Attractions
Beneath the sun-dripped shade of towering oaks, Milledgeville still beckons travelers with impressive architecture, historic venues, a glistening lake, and an authentic arboretum. Stroll through our perfectly charming downtown, or take a trolley ride! Amongst the grand Antebellum homes lining the streets of Milledgeville there exists a wealth of cultural...
Outdoor Activities
Milledgeville has so much more than just historic homes and museums to offer. Rent a boat and tour beautiful Lake Sinclair or enjoy a peaceful afternoon of fishing. If your children are more adventurous, you can take a self-guided tour of Bartram Educational Forest. If the boys just want to be boys, send them off to play a round of golf and the girls can enjoy a...
Shopping & Dining
Featuring an abundance of shopping from our historic downtown to many specialty and antique shops, you will certainly find that perfect item! Our charming Mainstreet city also offers dining options ranging from country rustic to southern elegance. Whether it is fried chicken or filet mignon, we can accommodate whatever your palate desires!
Trolley Tour
Milledgeville's Trolley Tour is the best way to take in the town. A drive through the landmark historic district includes rotating visits to the Old State Capitol, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Lockerly Hall, and the Stetson-Sanford House. The trolley tour is available Monday - Friday at 10:00 AM and on Saturday at 2:00 PM. The cost is $10.00 per person for adults and...

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03/10/2010	A History of Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia - Trifter.com Memory Hill Cemetery showcases a diverse history of Georgia. The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places in the historic district of Milledgeville, Georgia.

03/04/2010	Old Governor's Mansion Open for Tours in Milledgeville, GA Visitors are invited to tour the former Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion that served as the residence for more than 30 years and encompassed significant times for the state - the antebellum, Civil War, and early reconstruction.

03/04/2010	President Obama Tells the World "Come to America" The travel community celebrated a major victory today when President Obama signed into law the first-ever national travel promotion and communications program to attract more international travelers to the U.S. The historic moment, commemorated during a White House signing ceremony, is a major step in addressing America’s decline in attracting overseas visitors to the U.S. during the past decade.

02/22/2010	Milledgeville to host Georgia's 2010 Entrepreneur Summit Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that the 2010 Entrepreneur Summit will take place March 2-3 at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. The theme for this year's summit is "The Journey Continues...Survive and Thrive!" and will feature remarks by Governor Perdue and participation from members of the business and economic development communities in Georgia.

02/21/2010	A literary pilgrimage to O’Connor’s ‘the middle of nowhere’ Tattered cotton balls on withered stalks appeared in the fields, and then a row of weathered signs advertising “moonshine jelly’’ and “fried pecans’’ as we reached the outskirts of Milledgeville. In the hard, unforgiving light of a winter afternoon, we drove between the small, cottage-style homes banked up on either side, past the Piggly Wiggly, and after making our way along the ubiquitous retail strip, located the entrance to Flannery O’Connor’s farm, Andalusia.

02/20/2010	Marketing Magic Following the growth over the years of a Milledgeville-centric festival, a lawsuit, a subsequent re-branding campaign and painstaking attention to detail, Milledgeville’s Deep Roots Festival was honored with awards in multiple categories at the Southeast Festivals and Events (SFEA) Conference earlier in the week.

02/19/2010	Middle Georgia Festivals Garner Awards Two festivals held in Middle Georgia brought home the top two awards for best festivals in the Southeast at the Southeast Festivals and Events Association conference held in Macon this week. The Deep Roots Festival in Milledgeville captured the gold award and Macon’s International Cherry Blossom Festival took the silver award in the Best Festival or Event category for events with a budget of $75,000 or more. The Taste of Atlanta event took the bronze award in this category. This was the only category with a budget limit.

02/18/2010	Purple Glove Video could earn local Relay $5,000 More than 100 students donned in purple gloves gathered on Georgia College & State University's front campus Tuesday afternoon ready to dance their hearts out for a video that has a chance to earn the Baldwin County Relay for Life organization $5,000.

02/17/2010	RelaxingWorldTravel.com - Ga's Antebellum Pilgrimage Trail Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, the state’s first official tourism Trail, presents the second annual Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage on April 21-25, 2010. This 100-mile heritage trail encompasses seven historically significant communities including Athens, Watkinsville, Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville, Gray/Old Clinton and Macon.

01/08/2010	Georgia Destination Guide - GA's Antebellum Trail Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, the first official Trail, celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2009 with the first annual Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage.

12/29/2009	Georgia on your Mind in 2010? Drive the Antebellum Trail Capitals, columns & culture, Georgia’s Antebellum Trail Old South Tour is a fly-drive choice.

11/25/2009	Antebellum Christmas Southern belles and Christmas bells have this much in common: Both were part of the time-honored traditions of the antebellum South. While those particular traditions have been replaced with the more modern sights and sounds of streamlined fashions and digital holiday music, the holidays of yesteryear live on today through special programs and events presented at some of the South’s most gracious plantations.

11/11/2009	Georgia Barbecue However you spell it, Georgia barbecue is Y-U-M-M-Y!!

08/19/2009	Author's Historic Home Draws Visitors to Milledgeville A historic site in Milledgeville draws in visitors from across the world, but some in Central Georgia don't know it's there.

06/09/2009	Today's "American Story" - The City of Lost Graves

05/25/2009	Literary tourists' flock to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia Farm From the barn at Andalusia Farm came a clamorous grunt-snort-clop-grunt-snort-clop, not really loud but certainly enough to capture my attention. When I looked up from the fence row where I stood, a seemingly ancient, slightly overweight hinny named Flossie came prancing out to meet me with all the energy of a fire-breathing dragon rather than the plump old girl that she is.

05/14/2009	Going with the Wind in Georgia It's 70 years since Clark Gable, as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind, uttered the most famous exit line in movie history: 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.'

05/08/2009	Frankly my Dear... Janine Kelso visits the town of Jonesboro, Georgia, made famous by the classic movie "Gone with the Wind" to see how it will be celebrating the film's 70th anniversary.

09/05/2008	Andalusia featured in O at Home Magazine O'Connor's work chronicling the American South, including the short story "Good Country People," often reflected life on her 550-acre dairy farm, where she also tended peacocks and chickens.

02/11/2008	New Audio Tours Give Modern Access to Historic Milledgeville The past meets the present with new audio walking and driving tours of historic sites in Milledgeville.

01/18/2008	Restoration on Brown-Stetson-Sanford House Thanks to the support of the Grassmann Trust, SPLOST, and an anonymous donor, Georgia's Old Capital Historical Society is pleased to announce the beginning of Phase III of preservation work on (the Grand Lady of Milledgeville) the 1825 Brown – Stetson – Sanford House.

11/13/2007	We are Finally Coming to Claim Our Writers Eighty miles east of Atlanta, near the town of Eatonton, Old Phoenix Road passes through gently rolling pastures and pine trees to an antebellum plantation home. It's where teenage orphan Joel Chandler Harris heard the stories of slaves that later inspired him to write the Uncle Remus series, books that rank among the best-selling works of fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

07/10/2007	Georgia Town is more than antebellum relic Milledgeville, Ga. - The burning of Atlanta during the Civil War was an epochal event, and many believe it was Georgia's capital city that went up in flames.

05/08/2007	Road Trip: Milledgeville: Make Memories while reliving the past In Milledgeville, yesterday and tomorrow come together like family gathering around the dinner table. Graceful antebellum homes, most notably the Old Governor's Mansion, circle the small downtown. Ornate marble headstones and obelisks mark the graves of Revolutionary War and Confederate soldiers, and famous natives such as writer Flannery O'Connor, in Memory Hill Cemetery

02/12/2007	In Search of Flannery O'Connor The sun was white above the trees, and sinking fast. I was a few miles past Milledgeville, Ga., somewhere outside of Toomsboro, on a two-lane highway that rose and plunged and twisted through red clay hills and pine woods. I had no fixed destination, just a plan to follow a back road to some weedy field in time to watch the sun go down on Flannery O'Connor's Georgia.

10/02/2006	A quiet Southern town CARMEN ALARCÓN, a native of Colombia, tore through the farmhouse kitchen as if chasing a misbehaving child about to escape into the warm Georgia evening. "¡Hola! I want to talk to you," she yelled, friendly but insistent, as she left my side, flew around the corner and zeroed in on an unseen stranger.

10/02/2006	Learn as you go: Author's homes open to travelers If you're looking to add education to your vacation, consider visiting the home of a favorite author -- or one you'd like to know better.

10/02/2006	House of Stories Newly opened to the public, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia farm provided ideas, characters, and scenes for much of her distinctive fiction.

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