Thalian Hall (Georgia)

Hardwick is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,513 at the 2020 census, down from 5,819 in 2000, at which time it was listed as Midway-Hardwick. It is laid out around Central State Hospital. It is part of the Milledgeville Micropolitan Statistical Area. The zip code for Hardwick is 31034. Hardwick was home to Oglethorpe University during the 19th century.

Baldwin County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 43,799. The county seat is Milledgeville, which was developed along the Oconee River. Baldwin County is part of the Milledgeville micropolitan statistical area.

Baldwin High School (BHS) is located at 155 Highway 49 West in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. New additions since 2003 include a classroom wing, a JROTC building, a fine arts wing, cafeteria and a vocational building. Baldwin is the only public high school in Baldwin County, and the largest of the three total high schools. The other two are private schools: John Milledge Academy and Georgia Military College.

Lockerly Arboretum (50 acres) is a private, nonprofit arboretum located at 1534 Irwinton Road, Milledgeville, Georgia. It is open daily, except Sundays, without charge. The arboretum was chartered in 1965 on the grounds of the antebellum "Lockerly" (originally "Rose Hill") mansion (1852) constructed by Judge & Mrs. Daniel R. Tucker whose grounds were influenced by their friend A. J. Downing. In 1998, Col. Oliver N. Worley donated an additional 200 acres (0.81 km2) to the foundation for an Environmental Education facility. The arboretum is a horticultural laboratory, with collections of azalea, camellia, conifers, holly, rhododendron, and viburnum, as well as daylily, iris, and a greenhouse for cactus and tropical plants. The Rose Hill mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

Men's State Prison was a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in Milledgeville, Georgia, near Hardwick. The facility closed in 2011.

Memory Hill Cemetery is an American cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia. The cemetery opened in 1804.

Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion is a historic house museum located on the campus of Georgia College & State University (GCSU) at 120 South Clarke Street in Milledgeville, Georgia. Built in 1839, it is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the American South, and was designated a National Historic Landmark for its architecture in 1973. It served as Georgia's executive mansion from 1839- 1868, and has from 1889 been a university property, serving for a time as its official president's residence. It is an accredited museum of the American Alliance of Museums and in 2015 was named an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Twin Lakes Library System is a single-county public library system that serves the citizens of Milledgeville and Baldwin County, Georgia with two facilities. Twin Lakes is a member of PINES, a program of Georgia Public Library Service serving more than 275 libraries and affiliated service outlets of Georgia. Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's collection of 10.6 million books The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals, including 10,000 journal titles in full text.

The Milledgeville Historic District, in Milledgeville in Baldwin County, Georgia, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.The district is approximately the size of the 3,240 acres (13.1 km2) area laid out in the 1803 plan for the city.It includes Classical Revival and other architecture.It includes at least two properties that are separately listed on the National Register: Atkinson Hall, Georgia College, and Old Governor's Mansion (1839), 120 South Clarke St.

The Fowler Apartments, located at 430 W. McIntosh St. in Milledgeville, Georgia, were built in 1930. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.They were built as upscale apartments.

Bostick State Prison is a former prison located in Hardwick in Baldwin County, Georgia. It was constructed in the 1950s and converted to a prison in 1987. It closed in May 2010.

The Old State Capitol is located in Milledgeville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1970. It is located on Greene Street and is now a museum. Georgia's original state capitol was in Louisville, Georgia. On December 12, 1804, the state legislature voted to designate Milledgeville as the capital of Georgia. In 1805, $60,000 was appropriated to build a capitol building; and a planned city with elements of Savannah, Georgia, and Washington D.C., was proposed, for centrally-located Milledgeville. Jett Thomas and John B. Scott were the general contractors for the construction work. The Georgia Legislature met in the yet-to-be-completed building for the first time in 1807. The Marquis de Lafayette visited the building in 1825 while on his tour through the United States. Expansions were completed to north and south wings in 1828 and 1834, respectively. East and west porticoes with granite steps were added in 1835.Georgia's Secession Convention in 1861 was held in the building, and a vote for secession carried on January 19, 1861. Governor Joe Brown worked from the building, conducting the affairs of the state militia and engaging in disputes with C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis from the capitol and the nearby Governor's Mansion. Brown and others fled the capitol ahead of the arrival of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army. They occupied the city of Milledgeville on November 23, 1864. The Old Capitol building was damaged, while armories and magazines on Statehouse Square were destroyed. In 1868, during Reconstruction, the legislature moved the capital to Atlanta, a city emerging as the symbol of the New South as opposed to Milledgeville, seen as being connected to the Old South. The statehouse was used as the court house for Baldwin County, Georgia from 1871 - 1879. Then it was used for the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College, which became Georgia Military College in 1900. The building remains the center of the college campus and is open for tours.