Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia. The nostalgia that I experienced watching this video is unreal. Those from here didn't lie - it's a very special town.
Milledgeville was then and is today the perfect place for the state capital. After the Civil War the railroads pushed the legislature to move the capital to Atlanta. Atlanta is not flat in any way, but instead tall hills and narrow valleys. I live farther north in Acworth, Cobb County (850,000) that has even more hills, but like Milledgeville, it has a nice lake. I would like to correct one common tale that General Sherman left Milledgeville in tact because he had a girl friend there. The truth is he was impressed with the people's attitude, and how they opened the city for the officers to birth. I think he felt there was not reason to burn the fine city because it was the capital, and he knew after the war the state would need to built a new legislature. He had no idea the capital would be moved. At the end of the century Atlanta had been rebuilt, and was holding an international agriculture fair. General Sherman was invited as a dignitary to see the changes made in the city. He said Atlanta was rebuilt better than it was before. Inconsistencies in the Civil War and afterwards.: When President/General Grant died, Southern General Joseph Johnson was one of his poll bearers. When General Sherman died, General Johnson was also one of his poll bearers, but this time he refused to wear his hat in the rain to honor the great man. He died a month later from pneumonia. General Robert E. Lee opened a home for old soldier in Virginia, and it was populated by soldiers from the north and south.
This is a good video but you have to be born and raised here to fully appreciate all the nostalgia and History of this beautiful Town.I'm a Lifetime resident and proud to say there's no other small Town I'd rather have been raised in.
Great video. I am presently living in the Atlanta area and looking forward to visiting yall soon :) I wish there were Hometown Georgia videos like this👍
I wouldn't say that ,it's home for the mental hospital may have given it a bad rap but I have driven through it and it seemed like nice place except for the nuclelar plant on the river
Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia. The nostalgia that I experienced watching this video is unreal. Those from here didn't lie - it's a very special town.
This was really good! Thank you for sharing!
Born and raised here! still here… 😊1981
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Lived here 2012-2016, some of the best years of my life, might move back.
Great entertaining and informative documentary. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching GPB!
Very nicely done!
Yall are making me homesick
Looks like a beautiful old fashioned Americana town from the years gone by. Another words- I would like to move there. Great place.
Thank you! Outstanding!
Lived here from 2007 to Fall of 2015. Nice to see it again.
Where you left to?
That's my home town ! Born and raised
This is very well done! I’d never heard of Milledgeville before today but now I want to visit and research the mental health facility.
Milledgeville was then and is today the perfect place for the state capital. After the Civil War the railroads pushed the legislature to move the capital to Atlanta. Atlanta is not flat in any way, but instead tall hills and narrow valleys. I live farther north in Acworth, Cobb County (850,000) that has even more hills, but like Milledgeville, it has a nice lake. I would like to correct one common tale that General Sherman left Milledgeville in tact because he had a girl friend there. The truth is he was impressed with the people's attitude, and how they opened the city for the officers to birth. I think he felt there was not reason to burn the fine city because it was the capital, and he knew after the war the state would need to built a new legislature. He had no idea the capital would be moved. At the end of the century Atlanta had been rebuilt, and was holding an international agriculture fair. General Sherman was invited as a dignitary to see the changes made in the city. He said Atlanta was rebuilt better than it was before. Inconsistencies in the Civil War and afterwards.: When President/General Grant died, Southern General Joseph Johnson was one of his poll bearers. When General Sherman died, General Johnson was also one of his poll bearers, but this time he refused to wear his hat in the rain to honor the great man. He died a month later from pneumonia. General Robert E. Lee opened a home for old soldier in Virginia, and it was populated by soldiers from the north and south.
This is a good video but you have to be born and raised here to fully appreciate all the nostalgia and History of this beautiful Town.I'm a Lifetime resident and proud to say there's no other small Town I'd rather have been raised in.
Great video. I am presently living in the Atlanta area and looking forward to visiting yall soon :) I wish there were Hometown Georgia videos like this👍
Grandpa was born in Milledgeville Georgia like to visit one day
Excellent 😍😍😍😍
What lake was the gentleman in the red jacket describing?
lake sinclair…
Have any celebrities come to milledgeville?
Sidewon Doh I’ve seen an actor there once
I like that hardware store
FLANNERY O'CONNOR!
Unforgettable writer,she is in my opinion the best author and famous writer that Georgia can call it's very own
Kernel sanders 1:10
"Pretty woman"
The baristra needs to learn not to touch her hair and then touch customer's drinks.
Milledgeville is a backwater from the worst region of georgia.
I wouldn't say that ,it's home for the mental hospital may have given it a bad rap but I have driven through it and it seemed like nice place except for the nuclelar plant on the river