The Georgia Historical Society

The Georgia Historical Society or GHS is located in Savannah, Georgia. It is a statewide institution for collecting, teaching, and examining Georgia history. It is also located in one of the oldest homes of the state with the most distinguished collection of historical materials. The society was chartered in 1839, which also makes it the longest continuously operated historical society in the United States.

The educational and research institution provides educational programs, research services, and scholarly publications. It also offers the Georgia Historical Quarterly. IT is the Georgia Journal that started in 1917. Their records go back to this early time too.

There is a library and archive as well as market program which offers daily television and radio programming to K-12 children. The historical society has 6,000 members and 200 affiliates in 80 counties.

The research hours of the library and archives are Wednesday through Friday 12 to 5pm. It is also open the first and third Saturday of every month between 10am and 5pm. The archives depict early Native American history, settler information, and other historical information to the very present. Many researchers traveled around the world to visit the historical society.