Read on to learn about the history of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters from Dr. Catherine Lewis, a Bobby Jones scholar and noted Atlanta historian. As the best players in the world gather in Augusta this April, it…
Alice May Fowler was born on February 22, 1858, to Noah and Flora McKean Fowler in Atlanta. Her father worked in real estate and her mother oversaw the home. Alice was the second born of twelve children. But one seven…
Sarah White Carlisle is often recognized as the “Mother of Atlanta.” Sarah was born in Marietta in 1825 and she married 21-year-old Willis Carlisle in 1841. On the advice of the preacher who married them, the young couple moved to…
Sports are a fundamental part of Atlanta’s history and culture. Atlanta is home to five professional sports teams – the Falcons (football), the Braves (baseball), the Hawks (men’s basketball), the Atlanta United (soccer), and the Atlanta Dream (women’s basketball). Many…
Georgia’s 159 counties are second in number in the United States only to Texas’s 254 counties. By legend, Georgia created so many counties to accommodate the time it took a farmer on a horse or mule-drawn wagon to travel to…
James Edward Tate, Jr. was born in Georgia on October 6, 1893, the first-born child of James Edward Tate Sr. and Nancy Tate. The Tate family was a prominent African American family in Atlanta. Tate’s grandfather, James Tate, opened the…
What event in the early twentieth century killed more people than World War I? If you guessed the Spanish flu, you are correct. The Spanish flu is considered one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. It wiped out three…
James Garfield Eichberg was born in Atlanta on September 19, 1881. James was the ninth child born to his German immigrant parents. His father, Joseph, built one of the first plumbing houses in Atlanta and was involved in the ice…
Although fraternal organizations in the United States date back to the colonial period, the growth of these organizations increased drastically after the Civil War. By the end of the 19th century, there were hundreds of fraternal organizations with an estimated…
Henry Patillo Farrow was born in Laurens, S.C., on Jan. 24, 1834 to lawyer Pattillo Farrow and Jane Strother James. He received his early education in Laurens and went to college at the University of Virginia, where he fought with…
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