Athens, Georgia, USA
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Where is Athens, Georgia, USA? Athens, Clarke, Georgia, USA
In the late 18th century, a trading settlement on the banks of the Oconee River called Cedar Shoals stood where Athens is located today. On January 27, 1785, the Georgia General Assembly granted a charter by Abraham Baldwin for the University of Georgia as the first state-supported university. Sixteen years later, in 1801, a committee from the university's board of trustees selected a site for the university on a hill above Cedar Shoals in what was then Jackson County. On July 25, John Milledge, one of the trustees and later governor of Georgia, bought 633 acres (256 ha) from Daniel Easley and donated it to the university. Milledge named the surrounding area Athens after the city that was home to the academy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece.wikipedia
Athens, Georgia, USA
Clayton Street, Athens, Ga.
Athens, Georgia, USA
Joseph E. Brown Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Athens, Georgia, USA
Washington St., looking East, Athens, Ga.
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1908 - THE DAMAGE AT ATHENS ESTIMATED AT $25,000Athens, Ga., August 26. - As a result of the flood in the Oconee river the Aichan cotton mills have ...Read MORE...
1911 - BABY'S LIFE CRUSHED OUT BY FALLING TIESFather Sat Thirty Feet Away Unconscious of Heart-Breaking Tragedy.
Athens, Ga, April 18 - One of ...Read MORE...
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Athens, a city, capital of Clarke co., Ga., on the Oconee River, at the junction and terminus of...Read MORE...
Athens, a city, capital of Clarke co., Ga., on the Oconee River, at the junction and terminus of...Read MORE...
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Henry HULL
(30 April 1824, Athens, Georgia, USA - 26 April 1883, Savannah, Georgia, USA)
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Mary Ella HULL
(30 August 1853, Athens, Georgia, USA - 17 November 1902, Savannah, Georgia, USA)
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Katharine Anna Maria THOMAS
(7 January 1826, Athens, Georgia, USA - 31 October 1876, Savannah, Georgia, USA)
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Ancestors Who Died Here
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Judith COSBY
(1769, Goochland Goochland County Virginia, USA - 1827, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Lucy Cosby HARVIE
(1798, , Georgia, USA - 4 May 1859, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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William Franklin HARVIE
(1739, Roseland Nelson County Virginia, USA - 1802, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Asbury HULL
(30 January 1797, Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, USA - 26 January 1866, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Hope HULL
(13 March 1763, Somerset County, Maryland, USA - 4 October 1818, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Peninah Walton JORDAN
(abt. 1801, , North Carolina, USA - 8 October 1869, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Stevens THOMAS
(8 January 1778, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, USA - 13 April 1838, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Ann Nancy WINGFIELD
(22 May 1759, Anna River, Hanovery, Virginia, USA - 25 November 1832, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
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Asbury HULL (30 January 1797 - 26 January 1866) &
Lucy Cosby HARVIE (1798 - 4 May 1859)
married 20 April 1819 |
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Henry HULL (30 April 1824 - 26 April 1883) &
Katharine Anna Maria THOMAS (7 January 1826 - 31 October 1876)
married 9 October 1844 |
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Cemeteries in Athens, Georgia, USA
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