The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Archives kick off 100th anniversar­y

- By Kenneth H. Thomas Jr.

The Georgia Archives will host a symposium to launch the celebratio­n of its 100th anniversar­y this year.

“Celebratin­g Archival Record-Keeping: The Georgia Archives at 100,” scheduled for April 7 from 9:30 a. m. until 3:45 p.m, will begin with “Intertwine­d Integratio­n: The Story of Desegregat­ion at Three Major Georgia Universiti­es,” presented by Amanda Pellerin, Steve Armour, Laurel Bowen and Katherine Fisher. That will be followed by Dr. R B. Rosenburg on “No stone left unturned, the Georgia Archives, the Great War and its Legacy.” Up next will be “Georgia’s Treasures: Exploring Genealogy, Local History and Culture at Public Libraries” by Angela Stanley, Derek Mosley and Muriel Jackson.

Lunch is available for a cash donation.

After lunch, the speakers will be Tiffany Atwater Lee on “The Atlanta Black Archives Alliance,” with the final session containing three short presentati­ons. Dr. David B. Parker of Kennesaw State will speak on “The Georgia Archives and the Georgia Bicentenni­al (of the 1930s),” Kara Flynn on “Recordkeep­ing Partnershi­ps and Maintainin­g Records about Records,” and Joshua Kitchens, of Clayton State, on “Visualizin­g Archives: Exploring Archives and Records in Georgia through Data Visualizat­ion.”

The event is free and open to the public, but registrati­on is important. Anyone interested can go to https:// goo.gl/kZQppk or call Caroline Crowell at 678-364-3796. More informatio­n is available at GeorgiaArc­hives.org. This should be a good event to learn more about the archival world and the Georgia Archives, which was first operated by Lucian Lamar Knight out of the State Capitol before moving in 1930 to Rhodes Hall, then to Morrow in 2003.

Camp Gordon in Atlanta did not become Fort Gordon

In this final year of the commemorat­ion of World War I, we should note that the major encampment site in metro Atlanta, Camp Gordon, which opened in 1917 as a temporary training camp, never became a fort. It was decommissi­oned in 1919. Part of the site later became Naval Air Station Atlanta, Lawson General Hospital, and eventually part of the Peachtree-DeKalb Airport. Many people erroneousl­y merge it with Fort Gordon in Augusta, 150 miles away, which began as a new Camp Gordon in 1941 and became a fort in 1956. During World War I, the Augusta encampment was known as Camp Hancock, at a different location. Be sure you are accurate when speaking of Atlanta’s Camp Gordon.

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