2019 Conference was held May 4, 2019

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2018 Conference was held June 16, 2018

The 2nd Local History Conference for the Wiregrass Region
was held Saturday, June 16, 2018
at the Tattnall County Courthouse, Reidsville, Ga.
​85 were in attendance.
Awesome speakers rocked the 2018 conference.

Robert S. Davis on Georgia's Great Genealogy Research Libraries

Janisse Ray on Life in the Pine Flatwoods

Pharris Johnson on Houses of Heart Pine: Historic Architecture

Skip Skinner on Midway Church

Scotty Scott on Salzburgers & the Nexus of New Goettingen

Cal Avery on Barns of the Wiregrass

Judge Tony Thompson on Early Years in Tattnall: Cases & Facts that Challenge Our Notions

Genealogy & History Panel with Mark Baxter, Robert S. Davis, Pharris Johnson, Janisse Ray & Tony Thompson

2017 Conference was held May 20, 2017

The first Local History Conference for the Wiregrass Region
was held Saturday, May 20, 2017
at the Reidsville Garden Club, Reidsville, Ga.
​80 were in attendance.

A stellar group of speakers headlined the 2017 conference:

Pharris Johnson: Julia Harn's Memories of Georgia's Ogeechee-Canoochee Backwoods

Dr. Jon Bryant: Small Places, Big Questions: Placing Family and Local History into a Larger Context

Mark Baxter: The Revolutionary War Site at Battle Creek

Dr. Carol S. Ebel: George Washington's visit to Georgia 1791

Frankie Snow: Swift Creek Designs of Native Inhabitants

Dylan Edward Mulligan: The Advent of Railroads through the Wiregrass

Janisse Ray: What I Learned at the Archives

Tony Thompson: Early Judges of Tattnall County

Flashes from the Past
Photo gallery 2017 below.