Coordinates: 33°57′N 83°23′W

Athens, Georgia
Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–
county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies Athens, Georgia
about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The Consolidated city–county
University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1
research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. Athens–Clarke County
In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens
abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke
County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County.[4] As of 2019,
the U.S. Census Bureau's estimated population of the consolidated
city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of
Bogart) was 126,913; the entire county including Winterville and
Bogart had a population of 127,064.[5] Athens is the sixth-largest city
in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area,[6]
which had a 2017 estimated population of 209,271, according to the
U.S. Census Bureau.[7] Metropolitan Athens is a component of the
larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined
City Hall in Downtown Athens
Statistical Area, a trading area.[8]
Nickname(s): "The Classic City"
The city is dominated by a pervasive college town culture and music
scene centered in downtown Athens, next to the University of
Georgia's North Campus.[9] Major music acts associated with Athens
include numerous alternative rock bands such as R.E.M., the B-52's,
Widespread Panic, Drive-By Truckers and Neutral Milk Hotel. The
city is also known as a recording site for such groups as the Atlanta-
based Indigo Girls. The 2020 book, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia,
Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture,
describes Athens as the model of the indie culture of the 1980s.[10]

Location in Clarke County and the state of

Contents Georgia
Coordinates: 33°57′N 83°23′W
History
Timeline Country United States
State Georgia
Geography County Clarke
Climate Named for Athens, Greece
Demographics Government
Government • Mayor Kelly Girtz[1]
Economy Area
Businesses • Consolidated 118.2 sq mi (306.2 km2)
city–county
Tourism
• Land 117.8 sq mi (305.0 km2)
Competitiveness
• Water 0.5 sq mi (1.2 km2)
Arts and culture Elevation 636 ft (194 m)
Points of interest
Population (2010)[2]
Music
• Consolidated 115,452
Education city–county
Clarke County School District • Estimate (2019) 126,913
Private schools • Density 851.5/sq mi (328.8/km2)
Colleges and universities • Metro 209,271
 Time zone UTC−5 (EST)
Media
• Summer (DST) UTC−4 (EDT)
Newspapers
Radio and television ZIP code 30601, 30602, 30603,
30604, 30605, 30606,
In popular culture 30607, 30608, 30609,
30612
Infrastructure
Area code(s) 706
Transportation
Highways FIPS code 13-03440[3]
Airports Website athensclarkecounty.com
Alternative (http://www.athensclark
ecounty.com/)
Public transit
Bus
Rail
Utilities
Healthcare
Sister cities
Notable Persons
References
Bibliography
External links

History
In the late 18th century, a trading settlement on the banks of the Oconee River
called Cedar Shoals stood where Athens is today.[11] On January 27, 1785, the
Georgia General Assembly granted a charter by Abraham Baldwin for the
University of Georgia as the first state-supported university. Sixteen years later,
in 1801, a committee from the university's board of trustees selected a site for
the university on a hill above Cedar Shoals, in what was then Jackson County.
On July 25, John Milledge, one of the trustees and later governor of Georgia,
bought 633 acres (256 hectares) from Daniel Easley and donated it to the
Historic American Buildings of university. Milledge named the surrounding area Athens after the city that was
Athens in 1936 home to the Platonic Academy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece.[12]

The first buildings on the University of Georgia campus were made from logs.
The town grew as lots adjacent to the college were sold to raise money for the
additional construction of the school. By the time the first class graduated from
the university in 1804, Athens consisted of three homes, three stores, and a few
other buildings facing Front Street, now known as Broad Street. Completed in
1806 and named in honor of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin College was the first
permanent structure of the University of Georgia and of the city of Athens. This
brick building is now known as Old College.

Athens officially became a town in December 1806 with a government made up

City Hall on College Avenue in of a three-member commission.[13] The university and town continued to grow
Downtown Athens, seen across with cotton mills fueling the industrial and commercial development. Athens
Washington Street became known as the "Manchester of the South" after the city in England
known for its mills. In 1833 a group of Athens businessmen led by James
Camak, tired of their wagons getting stuck in the mud, built one of Georgia's
first railroads, the Georgia, connecting Athens to Augusta by 1841, and to Marthasville (now Atlanta) by 1845. In the
1830s and 1840s, transportation developments and the growing influence of the University of Georgia made Athens one
of the state's most important cities as the antebellum era neared the height of its development. The university essentially
created a chain reaction of growth in the community which developed on its doorstep.[14]
During the American Civil War,[15] Athens became a significant supply center when the New Orleans armory was
relocated there to what is now called the Chicopee building. Fortifications can still be found along parts of the North
Oconee River between College and Oconee Street. In addition, Athens played a small part in the ill-fated Stoneman's
Raid when a skirmish was fought on a site overlooking the Middle Oconee River near what is now the old Macon
Highway.[16] A Confederate memorial stands on Broad Street near the University of Georgia Arch.

During Reconstruction, Athens continued to grow. The form of government changed to a mayor-council government
with a new city charter on August 24, 1872, and Henry Beusse was elected as the first mayor of Athens.[17] Beusse was
instrumental in the city's rapid growth after the Civil War. After serving as mayor, he worked in the railroad industry
and helped bring railroads to the region, creating growth in many of the surrounding communities. Freed slaves moved
to the city, where many were attracted by the new centers for education such as the Freedmen's Bureau. This new
population was served by three black newspapers: the Athens Blade, the Athens Clipper, and the Progressive Era.[18]

In the 1880s, as Athens became more densely populated, city services and improvements were undertaken. The Athens
Police Department was founded in 1881 and public schools opened in fall of 1886. Telephone service was introduced in
1882 by the Bell Telephone Company. Transportation improvements were also introduced with a street paving program
beginning in 1885 and streetcars, pulled by mules, in 1888.

By its centennial in 1901, Athens had experienced a century of

development and growth. A new city hall was completed in 1904. An
African-American middle class and professional class grew around the
corner of Washington and Hull Streets, known as the "Hot Corner",
where the Morton Building was constructed in 1910.[19] The theater at
the Morton Building hosted movies and performances by black
musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington.
In 1907 aviation pioneer Ben T. Epps became Georgia's first pilot on a
hill outside town that would become the Athens-Ben Epps Airport.

During World War II, the U.S. Navy built new buildings and paved
runways to serve as a training facility for naval pilots. In 1954, the U.S.
Broad Street in Downtown Athens near North
Navy chose Athens as the site for the Navy Supply Corps school. The
Campus of the University of Georgia
school was in Normaltown in the buildings of the old Normal School. It
closed in 2011 under the Base Realignment and Closure process. The
56-acre (23-hectare) site is now home to the University of
Georgia/Medical College of Georgia Medical Partnership, the University of Georgia College of Public Health, and other
health-related programs

In 1961, Athens witnessed part of the civil rights movement when Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the
first two black students to enter the University of Georgia.[20] Despite the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court
ruling in 1954, the Athens–Clarke County school district remained segregated until 1964.

Timeline
Timeline of Athens, Georgia

1801
Franklin College opens.[21]
Clarke County formed from part of Jackson County.[22]
1806 - Town of Athens incorporated.[23]
1808 - Georgia Express newspaper begins publication.[24]
1810
Jackson Street Cemetery in use (approximate date).
Population: 273.
1832 - Southern Banner newspaper in publication.[24]
1834 - Camak House and T. R. R. Cobb House built (approximate date).
1841 - Railroad begins operating.[25]
1842 - Joseph Henry Lumpkin House built.[26]
1850 - Population: 1,661.
1856

Oconee Hill Cemetery established.[25]

Benjamin H. Hill House built.
1859 - Lumpkin Law School and Lucy Cobb Institute (girls school) established.[27][28]
1870 - Population: 4,251.
1871 - Athens becomes seat of Clarke County.[25]
1872
City of Athens incorporated.[21]
State School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opens.[27]
1882 - Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery established.[26]
1883 - Synagogue built.[29]
1891
Electric streetcar begins operating.[25]
Ladies Garden Club organized.[26]
1895 - State Normal School opens.[23]
1896 - Electric lighting introduced.[25]
1900 - Population: 10,245.
1903 - University of Georgia College of Pharmacy founded.[21]
1904 - City Hall built.[25]
1906 - School of Forestry founded.[21]
1908 - Southern Mutual Insurance Company building constructed.[25]
1910 - Morton Theatre in business.[30]
1912 - School of Commerce founded.
1914

Reese Street School founded.[26]

Clarke County Courthouse built.[25]
1917 - Athens Ben Epps Airport opens.
1924 - Athens Country Club founded.[31]
1928 - WTFI radio begins broadcasting.[25]
1929 - University's Sanford Stadium opens.[25]
1932 - University of Georgia begins administering previously separate colleges of agriculture, education,
law, etc.[32]
1938
WGAU radio begins broadcasting.[33]
University of Georgia Press established.
1940 - Population: 20,650.
1948 - Georgia Museum of Art opens.[25]
1949 - State Farmers Market established near Athens.[27]
1954 - Prince Avenue Drive-In cinema in business.[30]
1958 - Athens Area Vocational-Technical School founded.
1959 - Athens Historical Society organized.[34][35]
1963 - Beechwood Shopping Center in business.[25]
 1965 - Daily News in publication.[24]
1971 - Clarke Central High School opens.
1976
Athens Transit bus begins operating.[25]
The B-52's musical group formed.
1977 - Georgia Theatre in business.
1979 - Pylon musical group begins performing.
1980
Georgia Square Mall in business.[25]
R.E.M. musical group formed.[25]
1987 - Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution built.
1990 - Population: 45,734.
1991 - Governments of Athens and Clarke County consolidate.[23]
1992 - Athens-Clarke County Library's Heritage Room (for local history) established.[34]
1996 - Part of 1996 Summer Olympics takes place in Athens.[25]
2000
City-county website online (approximate date).[36]
Population: 100,266.
2001
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art founded.
Athens Banner-Herald newspaper in publication.
2007 - Paul Broun becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district.[37]
2010 - Population: 115,452.[38]
2011 - Nancy Denson becomes mayor.
2015 - Jody Hice becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district.[39]

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the balance has a total area of 118.2 square miles (306.1 km2), of which
117.8 square miles (305.1 km2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2) (0.41%) is water.

Athens lies within the humid subtropical climate zone, with hot, humid summers and mild to moderately cold winters.
Annual rainfall averages 49.7 inches (1,260 mm). Light to moderate snowfall can occur in winter. In the spring,
frequent thunderstorms can sometimes become severe, even producing tornadoes. The city itself sits on a series of
anomalous hills, unique to the Piedmont region.

Climate

Athens has a humid subtropical climate.[40] Its climatic regime is in many ways typical of Southeastern United States
with hot summers transitioning into cool winters, but with precipitation being consistently high throughout the year.
Normal monthly temperatures range from 43.5 °F (6.4 °C) in January to 80.6 °F (27.0 °C) in July; on average, maxima
reach 90 °F (32 °C) or higher and stay below 40 °F (4 °C) on 58 and 5.8 days annually, and there are 48 days annually
with a minimum at or below freezing.[41]

Official record temperatures range from −4 °F (−20 °C) on January 21, 1985 to 109 °F (43 °C) on June 29, 2012;[41] the
record cold daily maximum is 18 °F (−8 °C) on January 30, 1966, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is
79 °F (26 °C) as recently as August 11, 2007.[41] Temperatures rarely fall below 10 °F (−12 °C), having last occurred
January 7, 2014.[41] The average window for freezing temperatures is November 5 to March 24, allowing a growing
season of 225 days.[41]
Precipitation is relatively well spread (though the summer months are slightly wetter), and averages 46.3 inches
(1,180 mm) annually, but has historically ranged from 28.61 in (727 mm) in 1954 to 71.39 in (1,813 mm) in 1964.[41]
Snowfall is sporadic, averaging 2.9 inches (7.4 cm) per winter, but has reached 13.6 inches (34.5 cm) in 2010–2011.[41]

Climate data for Athens, Georgia (Ben Epps Airport), 1981–2010 normals,[42] extremes 1893–present

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Record high 80 83 89 97 100 109 108 107 108 100 86 80 109

°F (°C) (27) (28) (32) (36) (38) (43) (42) (42) (42) (38) (30) (27) (43)

Mean
71 73 81 87 92 97 98 97 94 86 78 71 98
maximum °F
(22) (23) (27) (31) (33) (36) (37) (36) (34) (30) (26) (22) (37)
(°C)

Average 53.9 58.2 66.2 74.0 81.8 88.7 91.4 89.9 84.0 74.4 65.2 55.7 73.6
high °F (°C) (12.2) (14.6) (19.0) (23.3) (27.7) (31.5) (33.0) (32.2) (28.9) (23.6) (18.4) (13.2) (23.1)

Average low 33.1 36.3 42.5 49.3 58.2 66.4 69.8 69.3 62.7 51.5 42.4 35.0 51.4
°F (°C) (0.6) (2.4) (5.8) (9.6) (14.6) (19.1) (21.0) (20.7) (17.1) (10.8) (5.8) (1.7) (10.8)

Mean
17 20 26 34 45 56 63 61 50 36 26 20 17
minimum °F
(−8) (−7) (−3) (1) (7) (13) (17) (16) (10) (2) (−3) (−7) (−8)
(°C)

Record low −4 3 11 26 37 45 55 53 30 24 7 2 −4
°F (°C) (−20) (−16) (−12) (−3) (3) (7) (13) (12) (−1) (−4) (−14) (−17) (−20)

Average
4.05 4.48 4.43 3.15 3.00 4.18 4.47 3.53 3.94 3.55 3.82 3.73 46.33
precipitation
(103) (114) (113) (80) (76) (106) (114) (90) (100) (90) (97) (95) (1,178)
inches (mm)

Average
1.4 0.6 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.9
snowfall
(3.6) (1.5) (2.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.25) (7.35)
inches (cm)

Average
precipitation
10.4 9.5 9.3 8.2 8.7 10.8 10.5 9.1 7.7 6.8 8.6 9.9 109.5
days
(≥ 0.01 in)

Average
snowy days 0.8 0.4 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 1.7
(≥ 0.1 in)

Source: NOAA[41][43]

Demographics
As of the census[3] of 2010, there were 100,266 people, 39,239 households, and Historical population
19,344 families residing in the city. The population density was 851.5 people per Census Pop. %±
square mile (328.8/km2). There were 41,633 housing units at an average density of
1810 273 —
353.6 per square mile (136.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 64.71%
1850 1,661 —
White, 27.37% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 3.15%
1860 3,848 131.7%
Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 3.11% from other races, and 1.41% from two or
more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.39% of the population. 1870 4,251 10.5%
1880 6,099 43.5%
The large population increase from 1990 to 2000 reflects the altered boundaries 1890 8,639 41.6%
that came with the consolidation of Athens and Clarke County, not just the influx 1900 10,245 18.6%
of new residents. 1910 14,913 45.6%
1920 16,748 12.3%
There were 39,239 households out of which 22.3% had children under the age of
18 living with them, 32.3% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a 1930 18,192 8.6%
female householder with no husband present, and 50.7% were non-families. 1940 20,650 13.5%
1950 28,180 36.5%
1960 31,355 11.3%
29.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.8% had someone 1970 44,342 41.4%
living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1980 42,549 −4.0%
2.35 and the average family size was 2.95. 1990 45,734 7.5%
2000 100,266 119.2%
In the city, the population was spread out with 17.8% under the age of 18, 31.6%
2010 115,452 15.1%
from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 15.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.0% who were 65
years of age or older. The median age was 25 years. For every 100 females, there Est. 2019 126,913 [2] 9.9%
were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.4 males. U.S. Decennial Census[44]

The median income for a household in the city was $28,118, and the median income for a family was $41,407. Males
had a median income of $30,359 versus $23,039 for females. The per capita income for the balance was $17,103. About
15.0% of families and 28.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.2% of those under age 18 and
13.5% of those age 65 or over.

Government
Legislative: The government is headed by an elected mayor and 10 elected commissioners from 10
equally divided districts. Previously, they have been formed from 8 geographical districts and 2 super-
districts covering districts 1–4 and 5–8
Executive: The Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County's day-to-day operations are overseen by a
manager appointed by the Mayor and Commission. There are 26 main departments, divisions and offices
under the managerial group
Judicial: Athens-Clarke County houses Magistrate, Juvenile, Municipal, Probate, State and Superior
Courts. Superior Court covers the Western Judicial Circuit, which also includes Oconee County.[45]

Economy

Businesses

Athens is home to a growing number of young technology

companies including Docebo, Roundsphere, and Cogent Education.
The city is also home to more established technology companies
such as Partner Software, Peachtree Medical Billing, and Digital
Insight.

Athens is home to several pharmaceutical manufacturing and

biotechnology companies such as Merial and Janssen
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The University of Georgia also hosts its own
biotechnology research centers mostly from the lower east side of
town bordering Oconee county.

Independent publisher Hill Street Press is headquartered here. Downtown Athens at the intersection of Clayton
Authors with previous, or current, residence in the city include Street and College Avenue
Pulitzer Prize winners Deborah Blum and Edward Larson, as well
as Judith Ortiz Cofer, Reginald McKnight and Coleman Barks.

Tourism

Each spring, there are bicycle races collectively known as the Twilight Series. One of these races is the Athens Twilight
Criterium.

Competitiveness
In 2010, the average household rent in Athens was $962. The national average was $1,087.[46] Of the Athens
population 25 years of age or older, 39.3% have earned a bachelor's degree or higher.[47]

Arts and culture

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has been, since 1982, the official state art museum. Culture
coexists with the university students in creating an art scene, music scene and intellectual environment. The city has
music venues, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops that cater to its creative climate.

Points of interest
One of the remaining two double-barreled cannons produced
during the American Civil War is here.
The "Tree That Owns Itself," which is now an offspring of the
original tree
The Georgia Museum of Art, the official state museum of art,
at the University of Georgia
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of
Georgia
The University of Georgia Campus & Arboretum
St. Mary's Steeple, home of the First R.E.M. show and site for Formal garden at the State Botanical Garden
newly founded renovation.[48] of Georgia at the University of Georgia
The Globe bar was voted by Esquire magazine as the third
top bar in America in 2007.[49]
Founded in 1955, Allen's is Athens' oldest bar and grill despite closing in 2004, re-opening in 2007, and
closing again in November 2011.[50]
Sandy Creek Park.[51]

Music

The music of Athens, Georgia, includes a wide variety of popular music and
was an important part of the early evolution of alternative rock and new wave.
The city is well known as the home of chart-topping bands like R.E.M. and The
B-52s, and several long-time indie /rock hip-hop groups. The Athens music
scene grew in the early 1970s and later during the 1980s with the Georgia
Theatre and 40 Watt Club as the aforementioned bands scored breakout hits.
Other notable bands were Widespread Panic, Dreams So Real, Indigo Girls,
Vigilantes of Love, Matthew Sweet, The Method Actors, Love Tractor, Pylon,
Flat Duo Jets, The Primates, Modern Skirts, The Whigs, and Corey Smith. In
Georgia Theatre
his insider book, Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who
Rocked Athens, Rodger Lyle Brown has described the indie rock scene in
Athens.[52]

National acts that have come out of Athens include: The Whigs, Reptar, Danger Mouse, Dreams So Real, Jucifer,
Servotron, Vic Chesnutt, Drive-By Truckers, Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lera Lynn, The Sunshine Fix, Colt Ford,
Brantley Gilbert, Corey Smith, Harvey Milk, The Olivia Tremor Control, of Montreal, Widespread Panic, Perpetual
Groove, Five Eight, Dead Confederate, Thayer Sarrano, Jet by Day, and Mothers. R.E.M. members Michael Stipe,
Mike Mills and Peter Buck still maintain residences in Athens. The photo book, Athens Potluck, by Jason Thrasher
documents the musical legacy of the town.[53]

Every summer since 1996 the city has hosted AthFest, a nonprofit music and arts festival in the downtown area.[54]

Education
Clarke County School District

The Clarke County School District supports grades pre-school to grade twelve. The district consists of fourteen
elementary schools, four middle schools, and three high schools (one non-traditional).[55] The district has 791 full-time
teachers and 11,457 students as of 2010.[56]

Private schools
Athens Academy (grades K-12)
Athens Christian School (grades K-12)
Athens Montessori School (grades K-8)
Downtown Academy (grades K-3)
Saint Joseph Catholic School (grades K-8)
Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School (grades 9–12)
Double Helix STEAM School (grades 5-8)
Al Huda Islamic Center of Athens Sunday School (5 years and older)[57]

Colleges and universities

The University of Georgia (UGA), the state's flagship public research
university, is the oldest and 2nd largest institution of higher learning in Georgia.
Founded in 1785, it was the first state-chartered university in the United
States.[58]
Athens Technical College is a Technical College System of Georgia public
college. It offers certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees in business,
health, technical, and manufacturing-related fields.[59]
Augusta University (AU) through its Medical College of Georgia has a Medical
Partnership (https://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/)[60] with the University of
The Arch in Downtown
Georgia housed at the University of Georgia Health Science Campus,[61] and
Athens
the AU College of Nursing has had a campus in Athens[62] since 1974.[63]
Piedmont College[64] established a campus in Athens in 1995.[65][66]

Media

Newspapers

The Athens Banner-Herald publishes daily. UGA has an independent weekly newspaper, The Red & Black. Flagpole
Magazine is an alternative newspaper publishing weekly.

Radio and television

Local radio stations include:

WPLP-LP Bulldog 93.3 FM is Athens' locally owned and operated adult album alternative station
WPUP 100.1 FM, Athens top 40 station featuring all of today's hits. Owned by Cox Radio
WMSL 88.9 FM, a religious station featuring traditional Christian music and teaching
WUOG 90.5 FM, UGA's student-run radio station
WUGA 91.7 and 94.5 FM, an affiliate of Georgia Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio also
broadcasting from the UGA campus
WPPP-LP 100.7 FM (Hot 100), a low-power, non-commercial alternative/progressive rock station
 WRFC (AM) 960 AM, ESPN Radio (formerly Athens' local Top 40 music station during the 1960s and
1970s). Owned by Cox Radio.
WGAU 1340 AM, news and talk. Owned by Cox Radio.
WXAG 1470 AM, urban gospel music

In addition, WFSH-FM 104.7 FM, a contemporary Christian music station, is licensed to Athens but based in Atlanta.
Atlanta-based Rhythmic Top 40 station WSBB-FM (95.5 The Beat) was formerly licensed to Athens (and also the
former home of country station WNGC, which now broadcasts at 106.1) but has since changed its city of license to
Doraville, Georgia.

Athens is part of the Atlanta television market. Two Atlanta-market television stations, WGTV (channel 8) and WUVG
(channel 34), are licensed to Athens, though their transmitters are in the Atlanta metropolitan area. WGTV broadcasts
from the top of Stone Mountain. From 2009 until 2015, UGA operated a television station, WUGA-TV (formerly
WNEG-TV) from studios on the UGA campus, but maintained its transmitter near Toccoa, its city of license; what is
now WGTA has since moved its studios back to Toccoa after being sold by UGA.

In popular culture
The 1940 film The Green Hand was shot in Athens, using local townspeople and students and faculty from the
University of Georgia as its cast. The film had its premiere in Athens in January 1940, at an event attended by Governor
Eurith D. Rivers.

The movie Darius Goes West was shot in Athens.[67]

In 2000, the fictional Ithaca University scenes in Road Trip were filmed on the North Campus of the University of
Georgia.[68]

In 2012, Trouble with the Curve was partially filmed at The Globe in downtown Athens.[69] In the same year, The
Spectacular Now was filmed entirely in Athens and the surrounding area.[70]

Infrastructure

Transportation

Highways

The city is the focus of U.S. Highways U.S. Route 29 (US 29), US 78, US 129, US 441, and Georgia State Route 72
(SR 72), and near the eastern terminus of SR 316 and the southern terminus of SR 106. Other state routes in Athens are
SR 8 and SR 15, which follow US 29 and US 441 respectively, SR 10 which follows US 78 east and west of Athens but
deviates to US 78 Bus. to go through Athens, and SR 15 Alt. which starts at the SR 10 Loop interchange at Milledge
Avenue and follows Milledge and Prince Avenues to US 129 which it follows to the north. The SR 10 Loop serves as a
limited-access perimeter. The city is bisected east to west by Broad Street/Atlanta Highway (US 78 Bus. and SR 10)
and north to south by Milledge Avenue (SR 15 Alt.). Lumpkin Street, Prince Avenue (SR 15 Alt.), North Avenue, and
Oconee Street (US 78 Bus.) along with Broad Street are major thoroughfares radiating from downtown. College Station
Road and Gaines School Road are major thoroughfares on the east side of Athens, along with US 78 east (Lexington
Road). On the west side, most major thoroughfares intersect US 78 Bus. (Broad Street/Atlanta Highway), including
Alps Road/Hawthorne Avenue, Epps Bridge Parkway, and Timothy Road/Mitchell Bridge Road.

Airports

Athens-Ben Epps Airport (FAA code AHN) has been operational since 1917. It is east of downtown outside Georgia
State Route 10 Loop and north of US Route 78. AHN qualifies for air service to be provided under the Essential Air
Service provisions. SeaPort Airlines provides commercial air service to Nashville International Airport, TN. Until 2012,
Georgia Skies and Wings Air provided commercial air service to Atlanta, and until 2008 (prior to either airline's current
AHN service), US Airways provided service to Charlotte. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) is the primary
point of departure and arrival for Athenians due to the relative lack of air service to AHN.[71]

Alternative

Athens encourages use of alternative transportation. Bike lanes are provided on major thoroughfares. A rail-to-trail
redevelopment is being considered to connect Downtown with the East Side. Organizations such as BikeAthens support
and encourage biking. Skateboarding and small scooters are also common sights around UGA campus and Downtown.

Public transit

Bus

Athens Transit provides intracity transit seven days per week.[72] UGA Campus Transit provides fare-free 24 hours/5
days a week transit around the University of Georgia campus, Milledge Avenue and Prince Avenue on the way to
UGA's newest campus, the Health Sciences Campus.[73] Southeastern Stages, a subsidiary of Greyhound Lines,[74]
provides intercity bus services.[75] Low cost curbside bus service to Atlanta and Charlotte is also provided by Megabus.

Rail

Athens has no direct passenger rail service; the closest Amtrak stations are in Atlanta, Gainesville, and Toccoa. Until
the 1950s and 1960s the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's daily Cotton Blossom (ended, 1955), Washington - Atlanta, Silver
Comet, New York - Birmingham and Tidewater (ended, 1968), Norfolk - Birmingham service made stops at the SAL's
Athens depot at College Avenue and Ware Street, north of downtown. Train service to Athens ended with the last run of
the Silver Comet in 1969.[76][77] Freight service is provided by CSX[78] and Athens Line,[79] the latter having leased
tracks from Norfolk Southern. The Georgia Department of Transportation has proposed the city as the terminus of a
commuter line that links Atlanta and Gwinnett County along the Georgia 316 corridor.[80]

Utilities

Electric service in Athens-Clarke is provided by two customer-owned electric cooperatives, Walton EMC and Jackson
EMC, as well as by Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company. Water utility is provided by the city. Garbage is
provided by private companies according to customer purchase, though the city does offer municipal garbage pick up as
a service. Natural gas is supplied by Atlanta Gas Light through various marketers within the deregulated market.

Healthcare

Sister cities
The City of Athens maintains trade development programs, cultural, and educational partnerships in a twinning
agreement with Bucharest, Romania.[81]

Notable Persons
Coleman Barks – poet, interpreter of the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi
Kevin Barnes – founding member of the band of Montreal
Kim Basinger – film actress
Bill Berry – founding member of R.E.M.
John Berry – singer
Fred Birchmore - adventurer and centenarian
Byron Bowers – Stand Up Comedian
Brian Bowles – martial artist
Titus Burgess - actor and singer
Phil Campbell - farmer and politician
Henry Hull Carlton - member of the U.S. House of Representatives[82]
Eve Carson - 2004, slain Student Body President of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Bob Cole – composer
Jeff Daniels – actor, born in Athens[83]
Leila Denmark – pediatrician and supercentenarian
Ben T. Epps – aviation pioneer
Colt Ford – country musician
Adam Frazier - MLB player
Marianne Gordon – actress
Henry W. Grady – journalist and orator; helped reintegrate the former Confederate States[84]
Willie Green – former NFL player
Forrest Griffin – MMA fighter
Young Harris – judge, philanthropist, and namesake of Young Harris College
Al Hester - professor of journalism, historian
Henry R. Jackson – Major General in the Georgia militia during the Civil War
Wadsworth Jarrell – artist
Andy Johnson – former NFL player
John Kasay – Carolina Panthers kicker
Brian Kemp – The Governor of Georgia
Todd Kimsey – actor (Seinfeld)[85]
Leo Kottke – acoustic guitarist
NeNe Leakes - reality TV star and actress, raised in Athens
Jeff Mangum – indie folk musician (lived in Athens until the early 2000s)
Eaddy Mays – television and film actress
Brian McCann – MLB player, born in Athens[86]
Mary Jackson McCrorey, educator, mission worker
Lou McGarity – jazz trombonist
Zach Mettenberger - NFL quarterback
Fred Mills – classical music professor and Grammy nominee
Mike Mills – founding member of R.E.M.
Quentin Moses – football linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, born in Athens
Billy Payne - former chairman of Augusta National a Golf Club
Madeleine Peyroux – jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist, born in Athens
Edwin Pope - Miami sportswriter, born in Athens
Leonard Postero - Radio Personality, Leonard’s Losers
Dunta Robinson – NFL player
Claire Merritt Hodgson Ruth – second wife of baseball great Babe Ruth
Mildred Seydell – one of the first female newspaper journalists in Georgia
Chuck Smith – former NFL defensive end
Scott Spillane – musician, The Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel
Lucy May Stanton – artist known for portrait miniatures[87]
Michael Stipe – founding member of R.E.M.
Keith Strickland – musician, composer and founding member of The B-52s
Fran Tarkenton – Hall of Fame quarterback
Jason Thrasher - rock photographer
Laura Slade Wiggins – actress and musician
 Cindy Wilson – founding member of The B-52s
Ricky Wilson – founding member of The B-52s

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pressbks_ugp9780820334462) by Ernest C. Hynds in the Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.us
g.edu/)
Athens Historical Society (https://www.athenshistorical.org/index)
"Athens" (http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/athens), New
Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
"Athens-Clarke County Guide: History" (http://www.libs.uga.edu/athens/history.html). University of
Georgia Libraries.

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