History of Milledgeville Told Through Photographs

Nov. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Milledgeville from local author Amy E. Clark-Davis. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images and memories of days gone by.

Milledgeville is a study into Milledgeville’s past events as they directly defined and shaped the future of the city. Milledgeville has been greatly impacted by the founding of what is now Georgia College & State University and Georgia Military College, as well as by notable persons like great American writer Flannery O’Connor, distinguished chemist Charles Holmes Herty, and Congressman Carl Vinson.

The city also has less flattering history, including the removal of the Creek Indians to acquire land and the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, which inspired the phrase “Gone to Milledgeville” to suggest a person had gone crazy. This compilation of images traces the history of Milledgeville from its founding in 1804 and declaration as the new capital of Georgia through more than 100 years of development and transition.

Clark-Davis is a freelance writer and published fiction author. Davis graduated from Brewton-Parker College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and works at Allied Arts, a multidiscipline community arts agency.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or
(888)-313-2665.

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With more than 7,500 local history titles published to date, Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Widely recognized sepia books feature hundreds of vintage historical images.