Blakely Native American site among 17 state parks offering free admission on Sunday
From staff reports
ALBANY — One southwest Georgia museum and one that is not too distant are among historical sites across the state that will be open with free admission on Sunday.
The 17 museums include sites from the nation’s Revolutionary War and Colonial period, Native Americans, Georgia’s gold rush, historic homes and the Civil War.
The event is part of the Georgia History Festival’s statewide celebration of Super Museum Sunday. Visitors can learn about Geechee Gullah ring shouting, translate the Cherokee Nation’s first newspaper, view President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s hand-controlled roadster and walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War and Civil War soldiers.
Close to home, visitors can view the Native American mounds and museum at Kolomoki Mounds near Blakely. The park features seven mounds built during the 12th and 13th centuries by Swift Creek and Weeden Island peoples and that remain under protection at the park.
The park is open from 7 a.m.-10 p.m., and the museum from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Visitors can camp overnight by a fishing lake on park property.
FDR’s car is among the pieces visitors can see at Roosevelt’s Little White House State Historic Site in Warm Springs.
The president who led the nation through World War II built the house in 1932 so he could seek therapy in the nearby warm springs used by polio patients.
Today, visitors can see the famous “unfinished portrait” for which he was posing at the time of his death as well as historic film footage.
Other parks in the Savannah area, Georgia mountains and other sites also are part of the history. For other locations, visit GaStateParks.org/SuperMuseumSunday.
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