A look back: The College Football Hall of Fame under construction

The Athens-Clarke County Economic Development Department and the West Broad/Hawthorne Area Tax Allocation District Advisory Committee will host three open house sessions and an online survey during January and February.

DARIEN, Ga. – South Georgia in the 1720s and 1730s wasn’t a pleasant place to be. The men who settled Fort King George along the Altamaha River near what is modern day Darien learned that during the fort’s rather short existence. Built in 1721 – 12 years before “Georgia’s First City,” Savannah, was founded – Fort King George was both the first English settlement on Georgia’s coast and the British Empire’s southernmost outpost in North

During March and April Athens, Ga., is offering a number of festivals.