May 15, 2010 | 10am - 3pm
Celebrating 210 Years of Agriculture In Northeast Georgia
April 24, 2008 - The Athens Area Watson Brown Foundation Junior Board of Trustees voted unanimously to award a $6900.00 preservation grant towards the preservation efforts of the Shields Ethridge historical documents collection. Pictured are left to right: Susan E. Chaisson, President of the Shields Ethridge board of directors; Darrell J. Chaisson Jr., treasurer; and Maria Antonetti. |
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The Shields-Ethridge Farm is an outdoor historical museum located 50 miles from Atlanta and 12 miles from Interstate 85 in northeast Georgia.
The Farm is open to the public (by appointment) and hosts everything from regular seminars, scheduled seminars, and tours that showcase the Farm's historic buildings, including a cotton gin, blacksmith shop, fully-stocked commissary, wheat house, grist mill, and restored schoolhouse. All of these historic, agricultural buildings lie in their original location amid 150 acres of historic farmland originally established in 1800. Portions of the farm are still used today for agricultural purposes
Visitors can view a fascinating and extensive collection of original
and historic farm equipment including a working Titan 10 Engine
c. 1913, Cotton Gin Machinery c. 1930, and a Meadows Grist Mill
patented in 1908. The Farm has been featured in many publications
and on CBS Sunday Morning.