Athens Confederate Monument
The Athens Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial near Barber Creek in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is a Carrara marble obelisk mounted on a granite foundation engraved with names of the city's soldiers who were killed during the American Civil War.Photo: Chuck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include University of Georgia and State Botanical Garden of Georgia.
University of Georgia
University
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the first state-chartered public university in the United States. University of Georgia is situated 2 miles northeast of Athens Confederate Monument.
State Botanical Garden of Georgia
Park
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is a botanical garden of 323 acres in the United States, with a conservatory operated by the University of Georgia. State Botanical Garden of Georgia is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Athens Confederate Monument.
Milledge Circle Historic District
Park
Photo: Gwringle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Milledge Circle Historic District is a park, which is situated 1½ miles north of Athens Confederate Monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Five Points and Athens.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus. Five Points is situated 1½ miles north of Athens Confederate Monument.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 3½ miles north of Athens Confederate Monument.
Athens Confederate Monument
- Type: Memorial
- Description: a Confederate monument in Athens, Georgia, United States
- Categories: monument and historic site
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.91594° or 33° 54′ 57″ northLongitude
-83.39788° or 83° 23′ 52″ westInception
1872Open location code
865RWJ82+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 11699225920OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q96189494
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