Richmond D. Hill: Georgia’s First Black Mayor

In 1973 Hill, a Greenville funeral director and NAACP leader, became the first Black mayor elected in Georgia; his voter-registration work had already made him the county's first Black councilman five years earlier.

Richmond D. Hill: Georgia’s First Black Mayor is a historical marker in Greenville, Meriwether County, erected in 2023. It is one of 17 historical markers documented in Meriwether County, among 132 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.0293, -84.7137 near Greenville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Brigadier General David Meriwether (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Meriwether County Courthouse, Noted Indian Trail, and Meriwether County.

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