In and Around Monroe County
62 Things to Do
In and Around Monroe County
The Forsythia Festival is one of the events of the year in Monroe County.
Visit the Welcome Center
1 on North Lee Street for brochures on places you can visit, or point your web browser to www. themiddleofeverywhere. com.
Stroll around the historic
2 downtown square to see the county’ s red-brick Victorian courthouse and other historic buildings.
Worship in the oldest
3 brick Methodist church in Georgia at the Culloden United Methodist Church, Main Street, Culloden.
Stop of at the Culloden
4 Cemetery and Culloden Museum to learn about the Battle of Culloden, which was fought after the surrender at Appomattox, then go visit the site of the Battle of Culloden, which is marked by a historical marker.
Visit the Forsyth Soldiers
5 Cemetery at the City Cemetery off Newton Memorial Drive in Forsyth where 299 soldiers lie, as well as a female nurse who died rendering care to wounded soldiers.
Hike a trail in the Oconee
6 National Forest or take a canoe out on the Ocmulgee River is an excellent canoeing river. In the spring, fish for redbreast sunfish.
Get a bottle( or two!) of
7 homemade wine from Smarr Select Winery. They have many traditional flavors but also have blueberry, strawberry kiwi, and peach apricot.
Get to know the people
8 who protect us by touring the Georgia Public Safety Training Center. Spend some time honoring those who gave their lives for our safety.
Take in locally produced
9 artwork at the Monroe County Arts Alliance gallery on Jackson Street in Forsyth.
After a Mary Persons
10 football victory on a Friday night, stroll by the Reporter on Jackson Street and ring the Victory Bell.
Get fresh locally-grown
11 produce at the Farmer’ s Market May – August each Fri-
day from 12 – 6 p. m. in the vacant lot behind Farmers Bank.
Watch the stage come
12 alive at the Rose Theatre and see a play. Go to http:// thebacklotplayers. tripod. com.
Kick off spring with
13 the annual Forsythia Festival held annually the second weekend in March.( www. forsythiafestival. com)
Celebrate the Green Tomato Festival in Juliette, 14 held annually the last weekend in October.
Devour the blue-plate
15 special at Forsyth’ s popular Grits Cafe once it’ s
Get a great seat for the
16 Hometown Holidays Parade held annually in downtown Forsyth the first Thursday after Thanksgiving.
Shop downtown Forsyth.
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Visit downtown
18 Culloden. Its historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1980. Get lunch at the delectable Lockett’ s Country Kitchen.
Ever wonder about your
19 family’ s past? Check out the genealogy room at the Monroe County Historical and Genealogical Museum.
The Hometown Holidays parade is another must-see at Christmastime.
re-built( probably in 2013) from a devastating fire. Located on the courthouse square, Grits Cafe draws visitors from around the South. You may bump into Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss or Otis Redding’ s manager, Alan Walden, while you’ re there.
Visit historic Juliette, a
20 Monroe County community colorfully sprinkled with a historic grist mill. whistle-blowing trains, antique shops, gift shops, and great Southern cookin’ at the world famous Whistle Stop Cafe--home of fried green tomatoes and the site chosen to film the hit movie of the same name.
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