The Milledgeville Hotel and Oliver Hardy

Future film comedian Oliver Hardy lived at this 1858 hotel after 1903, when his widowed mother ran it. He stayed on as projectionist at the Palace theater across the street, where he resolved to act in motion pictures.

The Milledgeville Hotel and Oliver Hardy is a historical marker in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, erected in 2005. It is one of 49 historical markers documented in Baldwin County, among 113 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.0798, -83.2267 near Milledgeville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Statehouse Square (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include In Commemoration of Marquis De Lafayette, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, and Georgia's Secession Convention.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.