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 $10.00 per person for adults and...

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Article Date	Article Title
01/30/2012	Writing Home The woman approaching Andalusia was clearly emotional. Craig Amason could see her from behind the screen door of the 19th-century, white-painted home of Flannery O’Connor, the Southern fiction writer. She walked up the steps and asked Mr. Amason if she could enter. As executive director of the Flannery O’Connor-Andalusia foundation in Milledgeville, Ga., Mr. Amason was used to welcoming visitors. “Of course,” he answered, although he was not prepared for the woman’s next question. “Should I take off my shoes?” she asked. Mr. Amason laughed, “Well, no; I don’t take mine off.” So the woman stepped inside, shoes and all, and looked around with reverence.

01/18/2012	Former Prison Becoming Parolee Nursing Home A former state prison in Milledgeville could soon become a nursing home type facility for elderly sex offenders and other prisoners with health problems. State officials closed Bostick State Prison in 2009. But Gov. Nathan Deal's midyear budget proposal includes $6 million to convert Bostick State into a 150-bed facility for medically challenged inmates.

01/15/2012	A Visit To Milledgeville Offers Life Lessons in a Historic Southern Town Milledgeville – Tom Baxter wrote on this page last week that one of the disappointments of visitors from Japan is the discovery that they couldn’t visit Tara because it was a product of Margaret Mitchell’s imagination. An approximation of the world that fueled Mitchell’s thoughts does remain visible in a town less than two hour’s drive southeast of the state Capitol – Milledgeville, which served as the state capital before and during the Civil War.

01/07/2012	Street Named for GA Citizen Killed in War MILLEDGEVILLE, GA (AP) - Georgia community has renamed one of its streets for a hometown hero -- a National Guard soldier who was killed two years ago in Afghanistan.

01/03/2012	Georgia College Helps Kids Celebrate Literacy on Dr. Seuss' Birthday On Friday, March 2, 2012, the staff of Georgia College Library & Instructional Technology Center (LITC) plan to visit local preschools, daycares, and elementary schools to encourage literacy and a love of reading. The LITC asks entities to make appointments for LITC staff to visit and read Dr. Seuss stories and to lead activities. Please call Kate Pope at (478) 445-0074 or email kate.pope@gcsu.edu to schedule your 45-minute time slot.

12/11/2011	Milledgeville Cemetery Honors Military Veterans

12/11/2011	Lockerly Arboretum Gears up for the Holidays

12/09/2011	Southern Lifestyle: Antebellum Magic in Milledgeville

12/06/2011	Georgia College named Safest Campus in GA Georgia College ranks No. 1 in the state for campus safety, according to StateUniversity.com. “Thanks to the hard work of our Georgia College police officers and support from the university community, we are ranked as the safest campus in the state and one of the safest campuses in the nation,” said Interim President Stas Preczewski. “We are very proactive in protecting our students, faculty, staff and property.”

11/19/2011	Potato Drop helps feed folks in Milledgeville People in Milledgeville rolled up their sleeves Saturday to help those in need. Volunteers sorted through and packed up more than 40,000 pounds of potatoes at the 10th annual Potato Drop.

11/18/2011	Local Institutions to benefit from Tourism Grant Two Central Georgia Institutions will receive part of a $200 thousand grant to promote tourism. The Office of Governor Nathan Deal says the Flannery O'Connor Andalusia Foundation in Milledgeville and the Tubman African American Museum in Macon will both receive their share of the grant money from the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

11/15/2011	Stylist raises funds for Milledgeville Cancer Charity "I just decided to do it locally so that I could help people that I know and people from my hometown." Brianna Callaway has her hands full with clients at the Milledgeville hair salon where she works, but that doesn't keep her from reaching out to others and lending support when she can. She says the urge to do more overcame her after her mother had a double breast mastectomy.

11/08/2011	Milledgeville Flight Tour boasts Scenic Views If you think middle Georgia is beautiful from the ground, consider a view from above. Milledgeville Aviation now provides discovery flight tours for those interested in learning how to fly or sight seers looking for beauty from the sky.

10/25/2011	The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Announces Its 2012 List of State's 10 'Places in Peril' ATLANTA, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation released today its 2012 list of ten Places in Peril in the state. Sites on the list include: Rutherford Hall on the University of Georgia campus in Athens; Orange Hall in St. Marys; W.W. Law House in Savannah; historic railroad buildings of Atlanta; Historic Liberty Street in Milledgeville; Randolph County Courthouse in Cuthbert; Mt. Zion Church in Sparta; Crown Mill Store in Dalton; Secondary Industrial High School in Columbus; and, Chattahoochee Park Pavilion in Gainesville.

10/25/2011	Oak Hill Middle School Recognized for Progress Tuesday, statewide educators recognized a Milledgeville middle school for improvements and achievements. It's a part of a three day tour where more than 80 visitors hopped on a bus to check out eight schools across the state they chose as top picks. When two buses packed with statewide educators rolled in, Oak Hill students rocked out.

10/23/2011	New Milledgeville distilling business lets midstate men carry on ‘family tradition’ A sweet, earthy smell bubbles from the mash, the milky brown, all-grain soup fermenting in a 750-gallon stainless steel drum inside the former naval ammunition factory. Out at the loading dock, where Georgia Distilling Co. soon will ship cases and cases of its handcrafted hooch, Shawn Hall presses copper tubing into place inside a larger copper tube to make a column, a key component in a whiskey still.

10/18/2011	Travels with HLN's Robin Meade As the lead anchor on HLN's "Morning Express with Robin Meade," Meade is known for her reporting and interviewing skills. What may surprise some viewers is that she's a singer too. Her debut country CD "Brand New Day" is available at Target and on iTunes.

10/17/2011	Atlanta & Company's Georgia Travel feature Milledgeville's Haunted Trolley Tour gets featured in Atlanta & Company's Georgia Travel feature on must-see fall events!

10/15/2011	GCSU unveils $28.2M Wellness Center MILLEDGEVILLE -- Georgia College & State University’s new Wellness & Recreation Center takes about as broad an approach to the concept of “wellness” as possible. Not only will the new, 101,000-square-foot facility contain all sorts of exercise and recreational sports areas for students, faculty and staff, but it also will serve as home to student health services, counseling and health science classes.

08/29/2011	Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia

08/26/2011	Work of Volunteers highlighted through Hands on Milledgeville awards Hands On Milledgeville held its annual award ceremony at the Knight Community Innovation Center Tuesday to distinguish Britton Tuck as the Youth Volunteer of the Year, Cindy Nunn as the Adult Volunteer of the Year, Anna and Alex Byrne as the Youth Volunteer Group of the Year, Harriet’s Closet as the Adult Volunteer Group of the Year, and Sandy Baxter as the Volunteer Administrator of the Year.

08/19/2011	Distillery Gears up for Milledgeville Opening A new business plans to tap into an industry that they say will keep the glasses half full in Milledgeville.

08/03/2011	Renovations Plan to Keep Farmer's Market Cool One Milledgeville group is putting a fresh idea on keeping it cool at the local farmer's market. "No butter beans?" Warren Moore, a local farmer, asks a shopper. He says at Milledgeville's outdoor farmer's market, keeping his vegetables cool isn't easy. Especially with produce stands set up on blacktop.

07/22/2011	Milledgeville Police teach life lessons

07/21/2011	High Museum partners with Georgia College & State University

07/20/2011	Plan would link midstate to Athens by river and rail Rivers run through much of Middle Georgia, and government and nonprofit officials are looking for ways to use canoe landings, paths along the rivers and other routes to tie communities together.

06/22/2011	Flannery O’Connor, the Protestant South and St. Thomas In “The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South,” a composite essay published from two of her last public talks, she sums up what she thinks of her region: “What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge that evil is not simply a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be endured.”

06/14/2011	Milledgeville-Georgia's First Lady Located in the heart of middle Georgia beneath the sun-dripped shade of towering oaks, Milledgeville beckons travelers with architecture, historic venues and natural wonders.

06/06/2011	GA Among top 5 states for TV & Film Production Georgia is now among the top five U.S. states for film and TV production with more than 274 projects shot in the state since July 2010.

05/18/2011	Flannery O'Connor Farm receives Critical Grant During her productive years as a writer, from 1951 until her untimely death from debilitating Lupus in 1964, American author Flannery O’Connor spent the majority of her time at Andalusia, her family’s farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she penned both novels and collections of short stories.

05/17/2011	Milledgeville Museum works to match grant

04/26/2011	Campus Theatre wins award Georgia College’s renovation of the Campus Theatre building in downtown Milledgeville has garnered its third preservation award — this time from The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.

04/24/2011	Georgia's Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage Opens Georgia's Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage, with stops including the hometown of Joel Chandler Harris and the former home of Flannery O'Connor, opens next week and organizers are expecting to double attendance this year.

04/23/2011	Antebellum Trail laid out for spring visitors Travelers on Georgia’s Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage, which runs April 27 through May 1, will get a variety of special deals at historic sites along the 100-mile route from Macon to Athens. At 1 p.m. Friday, the trail price not only covers the normal $6 tour of the Cannonball House at 856 Mulberry St., but includes a special presentation, “A Suitcase in Georgia,” from local historian Jennifer O’Kelley, who unearthed more than 3,000 letters covering 81 years in the 19th century.

04/12/2011	Macon, Middle Georgia rich in Civil War history As the shells began falling on Fort Sumter 150 years ago Tuesday, Middle Georgia was poised to play some pivotal roles. Before the Civil War ended, Union troops had poured through Milledgeville, then the state capitol, and stabled their horses inside. A brief but bloody battle was fought just outside Macon. Macon itself became home to critical factories, hospitals and a prisoner-of-war camp built before Andersonville. And when Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured, he was brought first to Macon.

03/31/2011	Kidd pushing marketing plan for Baldwin County Places such as the Baldwin County seat are a perfect place to retire, believes Rep. Rusty Kidd, I-Milledgeville, and he’s gotten a little closer to putting together a marketing plan to rival those in other states.

02/11/2011	Planes, Trains and Automobiles

02/09/2011	Milledgeville Aims to Lure Retirees ATLANTA -- The charms of Baldwin County are so great, they ought to get a state certification advertising to retirees of the world the fine mix of low taxes, amenities and health care available there.

09/01/2010	Southern Comfort - Women's Weekly Magazine In a memorable scene from the film Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, seated on a park bench, muses that "...life is like a box of chocolates..." because you never know what flavour of experiences it has in store.

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.

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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