Georgia's state historical markers date from the Georgia Historical Commission's program of the 1950s, carried on by the Department of Natural Resources and, since 1998, by the Georgia Historical Society, which now administers the Georgia Historical Marker Program. More than two thousand of those markers have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each carrying the text the Society records for the sign on georeferenced maps from the eras it describes, and each pinned where the Society's own marker database places it. Markers the Society lists as missing or away for repair carry its note.
2,177Marker pages
82,000+Historical map sheets
Georgia Historical Marker Program, Georgia Historical SocietyCredited on every page
Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each; click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 2,177 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Georgia, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
Landing of Oglethorpe and the Colonists · near where a family lived in Savannah in the 1730s · James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, landed with the original colonists, about 114 in number, at the foot of this bluff
When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Georgia family sees Georgia’s).
Browsing all 2,177 markers by county.
Scan: the Landing of Oglethorpe marker page