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Various: Cities / Towns
Various Counties within Georgia
2006 – Present
Graveyard restoration and ongoing maintenance efforts include:
Clinton, GA
Baptist Cemetery in Glennville, AL
Methodist Cemetery in Glennville, AL
Group helps restore historic cemetery - June 22, 2012 News story on WTVM Channel 9
Working to preserve historic cemetery - June 23, 2012 News story on WSFA Channel 12
Historic Cemeteries in Eufaula, Glennville will Benefit from Grant -November 10, 2011 Article in The Eufaula Tribune
Apathy and neglect aren’t the only challenges we face . . .
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Clarke County
2007-Present
The 47th Fighter Squadron was activated on 1 December 1940, as the 47th Pursuit Squadron, one of three squadrons assigned to the 15th Pursuit Group, Wheeler Field, territory of Hawaii. The squadron also flew missions from Hawaiian stations of Bellows, Haleiwa and Mokuleia Fields, as well as Barking Sands.
The 47th Pursuit Squadron participated in numerous campaigns from 1940 to 1945, flying P-10, P-26, P-36, P-47, and P-51 aircraft. The squadron was credited with shooting down eight Japanese aircraft on 7 December 1941, before being inactivated on 15 October 1946, at Wheeler Field.
47th Fighter Squadron History
Inventory of the M.H. Mitchell, Inc. 47th Infantry Division Collection at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UGA
Eufaulian Made Ultimate Sacrifice - July 15, 2005 Article in The Eufaula Tribune
Fort Walker Restoration
Atlanta, Georgia
Fulton County
2011 - Present
After Grant Park was established in the 1880s, a granite pedestal, a collection of four cannon, and two bronze lions commemorated the site of the fort. After years of vandalism by park visitors, the cannon were removed in the late 1980s, and one was stolen. The pair of bronze lions also went missing. Today, only a state historic marker remains. It reads:
Southeastern salient of Atlanta's inner line of fortifications erected during the Summer & Fall of 1863. The line consisted of a cordon of redoubts on hills connected by rifle pits encircling the city, aggregating some 10.5 miles of earthworks designed & supervised by Col. L. P. Grant, pioneer citizen, construction engineer & railroad builder of Atlanta.
After 148 years, it is one of a few remnants of a line that withstood the quartering steel & climbing fire of Federal armies forty-two days -- evacuated only when the remaining R.R. was cut. The fort was named for Maj. General W.H.T. Walker, killed in the Battle of Atlanta.
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Clarke County
2007-Present
M.H. Mitchell, Inc. and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia are working together to create a permanent collection of the archives of the 94th Infantry Division.
M.H. Mitchell, Inc. has undertaken the task of collecting the documents, letters, diaries, histories, photographs and all the information available of the members of the 94th Infantry Division. The intent is to provide the largest collection of a W.W.II division where these materials can be viewed, read, researched and appreciated in perpetuity for those who are dedicated to history which includes the state of Georgia.
Click here to read a note from Chuck Barber at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.
The images shown are current images of the collection thus far. The most recent donation (5/December/2009) has yet to catalogued and sorted. This collection has doubled since last year and the coming year looks as equally promising. Your support has made this possible.
Please search for more information on:
Galileo - Georgia’s Virtual Library
Worldcat MHM Collection
History of the 94th Infantry Division
2011 Society of Georgia Archivists President's Award
Inventory of the M.H. Mitchell, Inc. 94th Infantry Division Collection at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UGA
2015 Ted Barris Discussion at the Atlanta Preservation Center
Antebellum Research and Preservation
Sparta, Georgia
Hancock County
2007-Present
History: This antebellum community contains a large number of architecturally significant buildings. Before the Civil War, Hancock County was a leading cotton producer, and the wealth created by the plantation system is evident in Sparta, its county seat. By 1803 Sparta was one of only five towns in the state to have a newspaper, and the town had begun a substantial library.
Threat: Today, vacancy and neglect of many historic resources are hindering the economic revitalization of the small town. The Sparta-Hancock Historical Society is also active, and the City of Sparta has created a historic district commission. However the City has not yet designated a historic district for the commission to administer.
"Jean Toomer's Sparta - by Barbara Foley
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Records:
Various Historic Buildings and Homes in Sparta, Hancock, GA
Notable Citizen of Sparta/Hancock County - General Henry Mitchell:
Information from Friends of Hancock County, Georgia Cemeteries
Information about the Waxhaw Massacre
Mt. Zion Singing Raises $1400 - April 11, 2013 News story in The Sparta Ishmaelite
Research and Preservation
Clinton, GA
Jones County
2004 - Present
Established in 1807, the community of Clinton served as an economic and cultural center for the Georgia frontier. Buildings date from 1808-1835 and together provide a rare example of a largely intact Georgia rural frontier village that combines commercial and residential structures.
William Lamar Cawthon, Jr. wrote in his thesis, Clinton: County Seat of the Georgia Frontier, 1808-1821, about Clinton, Georgia:
“ Few Georgians are aware of Clinton, even though early in the nineteenth century it was one of the chief towns of the state. Clinton was the county seat of Jones County, which until 1821 was on the western border of Georgia’s settlements. To this new territory, ceded by the Creek Indians in 1805, came large numbers of people, attracted by the rich soil and healthy climate. In Clinton’s heyday Jones County was apart of Georgia’s leading section, the upcountry plantation belt, lying above the fall line. In 1820 Jones County was the states second most populous, and Clinton essentially as large as any town of the state other than old centers of Savannah and Augusta, and the capital, Milledgeville. Large areas of the state remained in the hands of the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Atlanta did not even exist.
Clinton remained one of Georgia’s leading towns until the 1830s, when the westward migration and competition from nearby Macon on the fall line of the Ocmulgee River first seriously affected Clinton’s vitality. A decline began which became so severe that by 1888 only one store was left. A railroad had bypassed the town in the 1870’s, and in 1905 the citizens of the county voted overwhelmingly to move the county seat to nearby Gray, on the railroad.
The demise of Clinton as a commercial center and its slow deterioration even as a residential community have left it with a unique quality in the late twentieth century. To an unusual degree it maintains the ambience of an early nineteenth century American town. The early houses set on the original streets in a setting of open land form a unique Georgia landscape. The Old Clinton Historical District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and evaluated by the Historic Preservation Section of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as having national significance.”
Elizabeth Slatter Bunkley/Billingslea/Lowther
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Records:
Various Historic Buildings and Homes in Clinton, Jones, GA
The site of Leo and Lucille Frank residence (former)
68 East Georgia Avenue
Atlanta, GA
Fulton County
2010 – Present
On the 26th of April, 1913 Leo M. Frank was arrested for the murder of Mary Phagan. The trial, July 28-August 26, 1913, and lynching, August 16/17, 1915, would represent the only known lynching of a Jew in United States history.
On March 11, 1986, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a posthumous pardon to Leo M. Frank, based on the state’s failure to protect him while in custody; it did not absolve him of the crime of murder.
This plaque is here to remind the future of the past, to ensure that truth is history's benchmark, and to the memory of all that perished from this event.
Myrtle Hill Cemetery
Rome, GA
Floyd County
2012
Col. George Washington Lee (1831-1879) on November 18, 1864 engineered the train carrying the State Archives of Georgia safely from Milledgeville to Augusta and kept them from Federal capture.
Saving the South from Itself: George W. Lee and Internal Conflict in Civil War Atlanta - by Robert Scott Davis
Savior of Georgia state archives honored in Rome - February 12, 2012 Article in The Rome News Tribune
Various: Cities / Towns
Various Counties within Georgia
2012 – Present
M.H. Mitchell, Inc. and the State of Georgia are collaborating to replace Historic Marker posts with the new state-provided posts. As a result of a mutual desire to do this, M.H. Mitchell, Inc. and the state of Georgia are confident that the information provided on these markers will be here for decades to come.
Letter of Permission for M.H.Mitchell, Inc.
Group Repairs Historical Markers - May 8, 2012 Article on Georgia Public Broadcasting
GPB Broadcast
Historical Nonprofit Teams up with State to Save Historical Markers - May 7, 2012 Article in The Rome News Tribune
*All Historic Markers in Charlton county are being replaced with new posts by coordination of the local government. Special thanks to Mr. Wade E. Johnson / County Commissioner.
Rome, GA
Floyd County
2004 - Completed
In 2004, M.H. Mitchell, Inc. became aware of a situation that existed in Rome, Georgia. The keystones from one of Rome's Original Volunteer Fire Departments (Mountain City No.2 Fire Brigade) were lying next to the Oostanaula River at Ridge Ferry Park. We contacted the appropriate departments and began to organize their removal.
M.H. Mitchell, Inc. would like to thank the Office of Public Works and the Rome City Fire Department for the support they provided to reclaim these stones. (Ironically fire hoses were used to actually remove the stones from the ground.) The keystones are now safely stored at the Fire Department Training Facility in Rome. They are to be used in a memorial for the firefighters who have served Rome and Floyd County. They will be a part of something honorable and meaningful.
”New firefighter memorial to feature relics from Rome's firefighting past” - Rome News Tribune, Apri 11, 2018
”Community dedicates Firefighters Memorial” - Rome News Tribune, October 20, 2018
Atlanta, GA
Fulton County
2014 – Present
MH Mitchell is a founding member of Friends of Erskine, a group dedicated to the preservation of Atlanta's first public fountain, located in Grant Park. The group is partnering with the Atlanta Preservation Center, the Grant Park Conservancy, and the Grant Park Neighborhood Association to preserve this monument.
On April 18th, 2015, the APC hosted the inaugural fundraiser for the Erskine Fountain Fund at the L.P. Grant Mansion. The night was a great success with over 140 people in attendance and $13,788 raised for the fountain's restoration.
