Americus (Georgia) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in Sumter County, Georgia, USA
About Americus (Georgia)
Once known as the "Metropolis of Southwest Georgia", Americus was a city of prominence: it had the only privately financed railroad in the state, the first electric street car system, and a status as a cotton distribution center. What started as a town in 1859 became all this and a place for colleges, military installations, a WWII German POW camp, and a nidus of minor league baseball. Americus has been visited by such likenesses as Booker T Washington, Charles Lindbergh, FDR, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Interestingly enough, Americus has also been part and parcel to some of the darkest and brightest moments of humanity, namely through witness of the Andersonville prisoner of war camp where Union soldiers endured the harshest of elements in survival during the Civil War, and the interracia
Top Attractions in Americus (Georgia)
Explore the best things to see and do in Americus (Georgia):
- ★Andersonville National Historic Site
- ★Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
- ★Koinonia Farm
- ★Lindbergh First Solo Flight Monument
Where to Stay in Americus (Georgia)
- 🏨Windsor Hotel Ascend Collection
Americus (Georgia) Travel Guide Sections
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