Hotels
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...
Restaurants & Dining
Our charming Mainstreet city 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! Check out our selection of Milledgeville Georgia Restaurants.
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 $12.00 for adults, $10 for seniors...

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04/17/2013	Antebellum Trail journey to stop at historic sites MACON, Ga. — In the shadows of sleepy side streets and along some of Georgia's busiest corridors lie treasures of days gone by. More than 150 years of that history come alive Thursday through Sunday along 100 miles stretching from Athens to Macon. The Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage highlights historical sites in those two cities and five others: Watkinsville, Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville and Old Clinton near Gray.

04/17/2013	Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage runs from Macon to Athens In the shadows of sleepy side streets and along some of Georgia’s busiest corridors lie treasures of days gone by. More than 150 years of that history come alive Thursday through Sunday along 100 miles stretching from Athens to Macon. The Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage highlights historical sites in those two cities and five others: Watkinsville, Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville and Old Clinton near Gray.

04/14/2013	Milledgeville officials announce Georgia Cities Week events Milledgeville officials announced the city’s celebration of Georgia Cities Week April 20 to 27. Events throughout the week, including a cleanup day, a photo contest, and trivia fall under the theme “Where the Action is,” showcasing how cities, through the services they provide and the quality of life they create, transform lives and business. Mayor Richard Bentley expressed support for the Georgia Cities Week celebration by proclamation Tuesday. Encouraging civic involvement helps all parties.

04/13/2013	Georgia's Antebellum Trail Tour When Union Gen. William T. Sherman made his infamous March to the Sea through Georgia after leaving Atlanta in smoldering ruins in 1864, he didn't burn everything in his path. His scorched earth policy cut a destructive swath across the state, but a few towns escaped widespread damage from the torches and ransacking of the troops. And Madison was spared altogether due to the intervention of a pro-Union politician who had a home there. Today, these towns are part of the state's 100-mile-long Antebellum Trail, which also contains many Victorian-era structures and plenty of antique shops, art galleries and literary sites along the way.

04/10/2013	Milledgeville to Take Part in Downtown Pilot Program The Georgia Municipal Association and the Carl Vinson Institute at the University of Georgia selected the City of Milledgeville for a Downtown Fellowship. The partnership chose Milledgeville as the medium along with Gainesville as the large and Porterdale as the small community pilot program representatives. Milledgeville Main Street director Carlee Schulte announced the positive news in Tuesday’s city council work session. The Downtown Fellowship provides technical assistance for economic development and public sector education for UGA’s College of Environmental Design. Each city leaves the program with improved downtown corridor entrance designs. City support of downtown development and likelihood to implement the plans are considered. “Milledgeville was chosen because of the city’s support of downtown,” Schulte said.

04/10/2013	Bike Trail Could Connect Macon to Milledgeville Around 35 miles of abandoned railroads in Macon could turn into a bike trail connecting parts of central Georgia. The Rails-to-Trails program searches the country for unused railways like the one near downtown Macon. With grant money and other funds, they would transform this into a green space that stretches through Gray and ends in Milledgeville. The project comes at no cost to the city, but a council committee did give their approval for Rails-to-Trails to start their work. The project is estimated to cost $17 million to $20 million. Also at Tuesday's public properties committee meeting, downtown business owners voiced their concerns about street closings during big events. Many of them say customers and deliveries could not get to their stores, and they did not have enough notice to make a back-up plan.

04/03/2013	Time is. Life is. Lake Oconee Automobiles slide westward toward Atlanta, gliding through I-20’s sleeve of tall, slender green pines. The gray lanes promise to stretch on along this seemingly limitless vector to the very end, interrupted only by the occasional lazy curve. Exit ramps to towns long lost to the old American South whiz into the rearview mirror. Only the local mailman knows if there’s something there worth seeing. But then, in the distance, the horizon falls away from the road. The sky lengthens into a blue strip running perpendicular to the Interstate. Like a rip in that green sleeve of trees, the glassy waters of Lake Oconee wash beneath the I-20 bridge straddling the flooded remnants of Richland Creek. Spring morning fog hovers indecisively over the surface. A lone kayaker adeptly and rhythmically slices through the veil. This is the unofficial welcome sign announcing entry into Georgia’s Lake Country, an expansive swath encompassing Milledgeville, Madison, Greensboro and Eatonton and so named due to the sister lakes Oconee and Sinclair.

03/07/2013	New Antique Store Opens in Milledgeville MILLEDGEVILLE — Serenity Wellness Spa & Salon owner Linda Kerce recently added a new business venture to the fold. Kerce has a store that’s perfect for antique lovers searching for unique treasures.

03/04/2013	Deep Roots Festival Wins Industry Awards February 19th was the annual Southeast Festivals and Events Kaleidoscope Awards Banquet designed to recognize the marketing, programming and overall event. These awards acknowledge the highest level of achievement in the festival and event industry throughout the southeast region. The Annual Southeast Festivals and Events Association Conference was hosted by the Hotel at Auburn University, February 18-20th.

02/21/2013	GC Students Start a New Fad Georgia College students in Milledgeville are in the process of launching a new fad. While high-top sneakers have been the rage for years, an especially colorful brand is appearing, cheering up the campus during the winter months. Sixty pairs of the handmade shoes have been imported from Peru under a student entrepreneurial program overseen by associate professor of marketing, Renée J. Fontenot.

02/15/2013	Milledgeville Spreads the Love on Instagram app

02/15/2013	Historic Milledgeville home of black teacher returns to teaching role MILLEDGEVILLE -- The former home of a pioneering black educator is once more serving an educational purpose. The Sallie Ellis Davis House on Clarke Street has been restored and turned into a cultural arts center, celebrating the history of black education and leadership in Middle Georgia. Its front two rooms and hallway offer historical exhibits, while the back half is available for rent by classes and community groups.

02/01/2013	'Walking Dead' City Becomes A Georgia Attraction ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia city featured as a filming location in the TV show "The Walking Dead" is featured on the cover of the state's new tourism guide. State tourism officials say the city of Senoia has been featured in more than 25 movies and television programs, with the AMC zombie drama being the latest to shoot in its downtown area. Senoia is located about 25 miles south of Atlanta.

02/01/2013	New Ga. Tourism Guide Features 'Walking Dead' City A Georgia city featured as a filming location in the TV show "The Walking Dead" is featured on the cover of the state's new tourism guide. State tourism officials say the city of Senoia has been featured in more than 25 movies and television programs, with the AMC zombie drama being the latest to shoot in its downtown area. Senoia is located about 25 miles south of Atlanta.

01/31/2013	Restored mansion, Andalusia must-sees in Milledgeville, GA “Tours” is a busy word in Milledgeville, Ga., a proud and friendly town where people are anxious to guide visitors through its treasures. There’s a lot to see, especially if you’re a history buff. Allow some time to tour the governor’s mansion. Known as the “Jewel of Georgia,” this National Historic Landmark just re-opened after an extensive restoration and is a perfect example of Greek Revival architecture.

01/26/2013	Milledgeville Hosts First Literacy Fair The Cat and the Hat came to life Saturday at the Milledgeville Mall where the city hosted its first Literacy Fair. The Milledgeville-Baldwin Chamber of Commerce and the Partners for Progress kicked off the four hour event with free books, games, and performances from local schools. More than 30 booths were set up in the middle of the Milledgeville Mall to inform the community about literacy.

01/18/2013	Milledgeville Industrial Park Construction Underway, Jobs Coming MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The city of Milledgeville has recently taken several hits with the loss of jobs, but the residents in Baldwin County aren't letting it get them down. "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!," exclaimed Linda McKnight, at the third Eggs and Issues meeting of the year Thursday.

01/11/2013	Community project tells stories of Milledgeville via art MILLEDGEVILLE — A new community project will build bonds over art to create stories of Milledgeville during a series of artistic workshops. To kick off the Stories through Art initiative, a public reading of “Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community” is slated at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Georgia Military College’s Goldstein Center for the Performing Arts with authors Tom Kohler and Susan Earl. A reception with h’orderves will follow.

11/01/2012	Milledgeville Named "Best Literary Town" by Garden & Gun Magazine The fact that Flannery O’Connor lived most of her life in Milledgeville forever assured its place on the Southern literary map. O’Connor’s old house, Andalusia, is still open to the public and plays host to readings and book signings along with a steady stream of O’Connor devotees. But it isn’t Milledgeville’s only bookish attraction. The town is home to Georgia College, where a prominent literary journal, Arts & Letters, is produced, and it teems with young writers and the esteemed faculty who teach them.—N.B.

09/05/2012	Former Florida Dean Takes Helm at Georgia College Georgia College has a new president. Steve Dorman officially took the post September 1. Dorman comes to Milledgeville form Gainesville, Florida, where he spent 6 years as dean of the college of Health and Human Performance at the University of Florida.

08/05/2012	A loving mother's advice: Hit the road, son ...Our first stop was to be Milledgeville, Ga. That meant starting the trip by going 250 miles in the wrong direction, but I wanted to show my kids the home of Flannery O'Connor, Flannery's namesake. He slept the whole way there, waking only briefly to gripe that the car was too small (it was) and the Krispy Kreme doughnuts weren't fresh (they weren't). In Milledgeville, I would like to say we became our better selves, but it was 100 degrees, and we quickly became as brutish as O'Conner's most grotesque characters — snapping, nagging, accusing. Only Olive, our dachshund, seemed content, and that may just have been because her panting looks like a happy grin. The docent looked a little afraid of us. I became obsessed with Flannery O'Connor in college after reading "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." I tried to imagine her courage moving home at 26 to battle lupus, living with her mother who ran the family's dairy farm, dealing with unsolicited advice from visitors who suggested she write another "Gone With the Wind" "like that lady in Atlanta did." She wrote every day from 9 to 12, inspired or not, wanting to be there at the typewriter in case something showed up.

07/19/2012	'Cartoons' of the Artist as a Young Woman If the teenage girl from Milledgeville, Ga. (known to her classmates as Mary O'Connor) had her druthers, she would have grown up to become a successful cartoonist and painter. It wasn't such a far-fetched idea; after all, the gag cartoons O'Connor contributed to her high school and college publications between 1942 and 1945 — both pen-and-ink drawings and linoleum cuts — won her considerable local and statewide acclaim. If O'Connor had stuck with her teenage ambitions, those rough, impressionistic illustrations might today be studied as juvenilia that document a young visual artist slowly coming into mastery of her drafting skills, composition and overall style.

04/01/2012	Embrace Georgia's Antebellum Charm Running from Macon to Athens, Georgia's Antebellum Trail shows off many of the sites that General Sherman spared, and they're part of this month's spring pilgrimage

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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