Included with GeorgiaRoam+Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Campus Tour
Pecan groves, pines, and a living farm museum in South Georgia
Self-guided walking tour in Tifton · 1.9 mi · walking · ~1h 50m · 6 stops
The Tour
Named for the Georgia signer of the U.S. Constitution who became the University of Georgia's first president, ABAC opened in 1908 as the Second District A&M School and grew into Georgia's flagship two- and four-year agricultural college. Its tree-shaded, pecan-lined grounds double as an open-air classroom, and just south of campus sits the state's official living-history farm museum. This walk runs the ag-science core, the historic original halls, and ends at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture.
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Campus Tour is a self-guided walking tour of Tifton, built around its campus side.
The walk covers 6 stops over about 1.9 miles and roughly 1 hour 50 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.
What you'll see
This walk shows why ABAC calls its grounds an open-air classroom. The route runs through the agricultural core, where students study agribusiness, animal and crop science, horticulture and forestry among tall pines and live oaks. It reaches the oldest part of campus at Tift Hall, one of three brick buildings that opened in 1908 when this was a district farm school for teenagers. Tift Hall carries the name of Henry Harding Tift, the town founder who sweetened Tifton's bid to win the school.
You'll also pass Howard Auditorium, the stage for the Baldwin Players and ABAC's bands and choirs, which shows the college's creative side. The tour also takes in the Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village. The state's official agriculture museum is a village of more than 35 relocated buildings: a water-powered gristmill, a cotton gin, a turpentine still, a print shop and the Victorian Tift House. Costumed interpreters work inside, and a 1917 steam locomotive gives rides.
The route covers about two miles, so allow a couple of hours, wear good shoes and bring water on hot days. The museum is about a mile south of the main campus, so you may want to drive that last stretch. Plan around the museum's hours if you want to go inside. Saturday is the day to catch the steam train. The Georgia Roam app tells each stop's story as you arrive.
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