Georgia's public liberal arts university in the old state capital. A self-guided Georgia Roam campus tour.
Georgia College & State University Campus Tour is a self-guided driving tour of Milledgeville, built around its campus side.
The walk covers 6 stops over about 8.5 miles and roughly 1 hour 34 min, entirely at your own pace. Each stop's story unlocks on your phone the moment you arrive — GPS-triggered, hands-free, no guide and no tour group to keep up with.
This tour explores the historic heart of Milledgeville, which served as Georgia's capital before the Civil War. Georgia College's Front Campus is a shaded lawn entered through iron arches, lined with red-brick buildings with tall white columns. The oldest, Atkinson Hall, dates to 1896. Nearby is the library that holds Flannery O'Connor's papers. O'Connor studied here in the 1940s.
A few blocks away is the Old Governor's Mansion, a pink-stuccoed Greek Revival house finished in 1839. Eight governors lived here before the capital moved to Atlanta. Union troops occupied it during Sherman's March, and after 1889 the new women's college used it as a dormitory and president's home. North of town is Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor lived with her mother and her famous peafowl and wrote most of her fiction. The farmhouse and its outbuildings still stand.
This is a driving tour of about 8.5 miles and roughly an hour and a half, because Andalusia is out on the highway north of downtown. Go Tuesday through Saturday during the day if you want to tour the mansion and the farmhouse, since both are closed on Mondays. Spring and fall are the most pleasant seasons. The Georgia Roam app tells each stop's story as you arrive.
About 1 hour 34 minutes at an easy pace, covering 6 stops over roughly 8.5 miles. It's self-guided, so you can stop, skip or split it across days.
Download Georgia Roam for iPhone or iPad from the App Store. The tour is included with GeorgiaRoam+, which unlocks every Georgia Roam tour and trail. Each stop's story plays when you arrive, using your phone's GPS. It isn't available on the web map.
Yes. Both are museums run by Georgia College, with guided tours Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday afternoons. Both close on Mondays and some holidays, and each charges admission. The campus buildings themselves are for classes, so view them from outside.
Yes. Front Campus and the mansion are walkable downtown, but Andalusia is several miles north on U.S. 441, so the tour is set up for driving.
Downtown Milledgeville has street parking near the mansion and Front Campus. Andalusia has its own visitor lot, and you walk up the drive to the house.
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