Old Mary Persons High School Building
The original building for Mary Persons High School was built in 1929. It was named after two residents who were instrumental in promoting education in Monroe County.
Forsyth’s Original City Hall
Once the Forsyth Welcome Center, this was originally City Hall, built in 1897 and has been home to the city’s police and fire departments. The bell tower still houses the old fire bell.
Birthplace of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
The memorial to Jo Ann Gibson Robinson’s life and birth place. It reads: “Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was born near Culloden. Robinson attended Hudson High School in Macon, later graduating from Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School and Atlanta University. In 1949, she became a professor at Alabama State College in Montgomery, and joined the […]
Uncle Remus Comes of Age
One block east stood the old office of The Monroe Advertiser, where Joel Chandler Harris, creator of “Uncle Remus,” came in 1867, as a boy of nineteen, to work until 1870. Here he advanced from printer’s devil to accomplished journalist. Of his duties, Harris said: “I set all the type, pulled the press, kept the […]
Site of the Battle of Culloden
Culloden is one giant history stop. Part of the Civil War, the Battle of Culloden was fought 10 days after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
Grave of William Culloden
Monroe County’s oldest town, Culloden, Ga., was first settled in the late 1700s by William Culloden, a Scotsman.
Culloden’s Historic Slave Cemetery
Tradition holds that in this area of the Culloden Cemetery slaves were buried in a section separate from white burials. Almost never in the Antebellum period were the graves of slaves marked with permanent markers. In 2000, the City Council of Culloden placed this marker reading, “We know not who they are, but they are […]
Methodist Church with the Oldest Bricks in the State of Georgia
Originating in 1802, the church was rebuilt several times before the current structure was built in 1893 using the same bricks. A Gothic Revival brick building, it features asymmetric front towers and pointed stained-glass windows. The bricks were used as ballast in a ship from England arriving in Savannah in the 1700s, making it the […]
Oldest Magnolia Tree in the State of Georgia
Monroe County is also home to natural history. In Culloden, across the street from Georgia’s oldest Methodist church, stands the state’s oldest Magnolia tree.
Historic Grist Mill and Old Power House at High Falls
Visitors can hike along the river’s edge and through hilly forest to the remains of a hydroelectric power plant foundation. In the early 1800s, this area was a prosperous industrial town with several stores, a grist mill, cotton gin, blacksmith shop, shoe factory, and hotel. High Falls fell from prosperity in the 1880s when a […]