Georgia’s Old Capital Heritage Center at The Depot will participate in the Georgia History Festival’s Super Museum on Sunday, Feb. 8, featuring the Central State Hospital Museum and the Brown-Stetson-Sanford House as two of more than 100 historic sites around the state open for free tours.
Super Museum Sunday is part of the annual Georgia History Festival, the signature K-12 educational program of the Georgia Historical Society, reaching hundreds of thousands of students statewide.
The Brown-Stetson-Sanford House, located at 601 West Hancock St., is one of Milledgeville's last remaining early inns and taverns and the only one still open to the public. Over two centuries it has served as an inn, tavern, private home, restaurant, and now a house museum reflecting life from 1857–1951. Rescued from demolition in 1966, its preservation sparked Milledgeville’s historic preservation movement and the creation of the Downtown Historic District.
The Central State Hospital Museum, located at 95 Depot Circle in Milledgeville, opened in May 2024 as the Fast Fading, a History of Central State Hospital exhibit.
Since then, the museum has grown exponentially, providing visitors with information, artifacts, pictures, equipment and stories that tell the history of mental health treatment, and the story of the former largest mental institution in the world.
Super Museum Sunday is supported by SouthState Bank and The Coca-Cola Company. For more information and to see a full listing of Super Museum Sunday sites visit georgiahistoryfestival. org. For more information about the Georgia History Festival or Super Museum Sunday, please contact GHS Manager of Programs and Special Projects Elyse Butler at 912-651-2125, ext. 119 or by email at ebutler@georgiahistory. com. For more information about Georgia’s Old Capital Heritage Center at The Depot, visit thedepotga. org or contact Lolly Brooks at 478-453-1803 or email thedepotga@gmail.com.
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