Athens Historical Society

IMPORTANT AUCTION, October 25 at 10 a.m. Ron Evans has announced the auction of his UGA and Athens historic memorabilia for Sunday, Oct. 25, at 10 a.m. -- resul...ting from the closing of the Athens,GA, Historic Display Room at the Historic Ware-Lyndon House Museum. Because of COVID 19 all bidding will be online, absentee, or by phone. Items can be viewed and bid on at the auction sites of LiveAuctioneers, Invaluables, Bidsquare and HiBids. Items can be previewed in person between Monday, October 19th, & Friday, October 23rd, by appt. Call 404.869.2478 to schedule a personal preview. The auction includes approximately 100 lots of memorabilia; some lots contain as many as 15 items. The University of Georgia items date from the late 1800s to the 1960s. Most items are grouped by decades and include an extensive collection of UGA Pandora Annuals. A large collection of historic UGA football memorabilia including 2 tickets, 1 souvenir program, 1 Yale pennant and 1 Georgia pennant from the October 12th, 1929 Sanford Stadium Dedication game. Also, many historic photos, booklets and memorabilia that span nearly a 100 years of UGA campus history. Item lot numbers 777 to 807. Other items: An extensive collection of rare 1850s & 1860s, "Bank of Athens" & "Cook & Brother", Athens Georgia paper currency. Item lot numbers 737 to 744. * An extensive collection of 19th century medical items used to interpret the lives of Doctors E.R. Ware & E.S. Lyndon, the original owners of the Historic Ware-Lyndon House (ca.1840to 1900). Item lot numbers 752 to 770. * Probably the nation's best collection of items and memorabilia from the important sports manufacturing company, Hanna Batrite baseball bat factory from Athens GA (1920s to 1960s). Item lot numbers 808 to 831. This multi estate auction will be held at Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery on Miami Circle in Atlanta Georgia.

Our spring events have been postponed, but we hope to reschedule them for later! In the meantime, we encourage everyone to keep a journal, blog, poetry, photographs, or any other way you might document what is currently going on in your world. We would love to collect anything you would like to share after this has passed, and look forward to partnering with other organizations to do so. We love you, Athens. Please stay safe and keep washing your hands.

Our friends at the Athens-Clarke County Heritage Room found this article from the 1918 flu pandemic! As a note, our spring events are currently on hold while we wait to reschedule them. We will share them with you as soon as we can! Stay safe (and 6 feet apart), keep washing your hands, and we hope to see you all again soon.

The 60th Anniversary issue of the Historian is arriving in mailboxes this week!

Our friends in the UGA History Department have some great events happening this month. Be sure to check them out!

Should be an interesting program!

Please join us, rain or shine!

Please join our Inherit Georgia Athens Chapter (in partnership with Historic Athens) tomorrow night for a Historic Haunted Pub Crawl! We will meet at the Globe downtown and move from there.

Be sure to check out Quig & The Boys at 5pm! Thanks Historic Athens for letting us be a part of this event!

Be sure to check out Porchfest today! We are sponsoring the porch at 131 Grady Ave at 5pm, featuring Quig and the Boys Band!