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Explore community history and happenings and go behind-the-scenes with the History Center as we uncover fresh stories and experiences.
Community Patchwork Project
The process of using different materials to make a patchwork can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt and China, where quilted funeral cloths have been discovered in tombs. Throughout time, patchwork has turned the practice of extending the life of fabrics into an art form that often tells a story about the culture of its artists. These […]
We’re Certified
Summer is always a busy time at the Thomasville History Center, but that doesn’t mean education can take a break! In August, staff from the Thomasville History Center, alongside friends from Pebble Hill Plantation, Jack Hadley Black History Museum, and the Center for the Arts participated in the National Association of Interpreters’ training program for Certified Interpretive Guides. An internationally […]
Re-Imagining Summer
About two years ago, Meme and Amelia had the realization that they wanted to shake up summer camp. Yes, we know. It’s shocking, scandalous even. How could we redesign a 25 plus year tradition at the History Center? The routine of same but different and the frankly overwhelming nature of filling 7 hours a day for 5 days made us […]
Restoring A.T. MacIntyre’s Portrait
Last year, the History Center applied for the Americana Corner Grant, a grant which provides funds to museums of all sizes to preserve the history of our country, particularly the unique story of its founding extending from the early 1700s to 1865. We are proud to have received funding to aid our restoration of a portrait of Archibald Thompson MacIntyre, […]
House (History) Hunting
When I (Meme) was in graduate school, one of the books in our required reading was THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY by David Lowenthal (which is not exactly a page turner even for the most passionate historians). He described our ways of thinking of the past as creating a place that was removed from our own experience of life. […]
Mapping Visitors
You may remember hearing about our ongoing project to map the hometowns of Thomasville’s winter resort vacationers. A volunteer has recently finished transcribing a hotel ledger from The Willows, a boarding house and banquet hall, which includes guest and visitor names, cities and states of origin, and the location they were staying in town. Some entries were clear and easy […]
It’s Not Historic…Yet
The Thomasville History Center received its first official donation in 1955: a booklet with a transcription of the 1850 census for Thomas County from Folks Huxford, the Homerville-based preeminent historian of Southwest Georgia history during the mid-twentieth century. At the close of 2022, the History Center has received a total of 2,008 donations since 1955, which averages to be 30 […]