MISSION STATEMENT

The MGPA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the documentation, maintenance, and preservation of Middle Georgia’s irreplaceable cultural resources, including underground and above-ground prehistoric and historic archaeological sites (activity areas, mounds, villages, etc.); historical documents, maps, and photographs; burial grounds, churchyards and cemeteries; battlefields and forts; and the sites and/ or acreage of both standing historic structures (bridges, churches, kilns, mills, agricultural outbuildings, etc.) and their ruins throughout Middle Georgia. The Middle Georgia area is defined as a 23 county geographic network across the state including but not limited to the following counties: Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Crawford, Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Laurens, Macon, Monroe, Peach, Pike, Pulaski, Putnam, Spalding, Taylor, Twiggs, Upson, and Wilkinson.