This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Public Buildings and New School Structures in Athens
Athens has spent nearly half a million dollars in three years on public and college buildings. The city hall on College Avenue, a two story brick and granite structure, was built in 1903. The federal building across from the city hall houses post office and federal court and cost 100000 dollars. The University of Georgia gains Peabody Library at fifty thousand dollars and Hall on campus replacing Science Hall at thirty thousand dollars. The Normal School adds four buildings including Practice School at twenty five thousand and Winnie Davis Hill at twenty five thousand. New dining hall and James Mc Smith Science Hall cost fifty thousand dollars, funded by Peabody and state support. Lucy Cobb annex cost two thousand, with eleven thousand toward renovations. An opera house remodel cost fifteen thousand. Future constructions include a one hundred thousand dollar agricultural hall and seventy five thousand dollar Alumni YMCA on campus, funded by alumni and state appropriations.