*March
21 This month's program will feature guest
speaker Paul Downs with the Richmond Hill History Museum.
The Museum is housed in the Ford Kindergarten building built
in 1940 by Henry Ford as a kindergarten to serve the
children of Ways Station and Richmond Hill. The campus also
includes Carpenter's Barber Shop - an iconic community
business for more than fifty years. The museum explores the
area's history from the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil
War eras to the Ford era when Henry and Clara Ford made
their winter home in Richmond Hill. Paul will share an
overview of how the Museum serves the community and
interprets the history of Bryan County.
The program starts at 7 p.m. in the Fort King George
auditorium at 302 McIntosh Rd. Light refreshments will
be served. We're looking forward to seeing you there!
▪ April 18: Charles Wilsterman, Author & music lover: History of
Patriotic American
Music
Upcoming Field trips (Dates to be determined )
• Little St. Simons Island tour: Scott Coleman, Center for
Coastal Conservation
• St. Marys Submarine Base Museum, Molly’s historic town tours,
and McIntosh sugar mill
• Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville FL.
• Altamaha River Delta Cruise aboard the “Delta Belle” (Ga.
Tidewater Outfitters).
The
mission of the Lower Altamaha Historic Society is to preserve and
disseminate the history of McIntosh County. One of the primary missions
of the Lower Altamaha Historical Society from its inception was, and
continues to be, the support of the Fort King George State Historic Site
near Darien, scene of the earliest English fortification in Georgia.
LAHS, utilizing grant funds provided by the City of Darien, has
expedited the preparation and installation of several state historic
markers in the community, the most recent being the marker to the
Enslaved at Butler Island in 2019.