Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village | Tifton, Georgia
1392 Whiddon Mill Rd.Javascript must be enabled to view this map.
Explore the farms. Listen to the barnyard sounds. See bacon and ham curing in the smoke-house and preserved vegetables in the canning shed. Experience everyday life 19th century-style farm-like activities from planting and harvesting to cooking, spinning, quilt making, and more. All structures have authentic furnishings of the period.
Friendly staff members share the history as they perform daily activities whether in farmhouses, fields, sawmill, turpentine still, schoolhouse, blacksmith’s shop, or the grist mill. Stroll up the main street to the feed and seed store, the print shop and the drug store.
Tour the original Victorian home of Tifton’s founder. The Tift House was designed with curly pine molding, high ceilings, antique furnishings, and heart pine floors. It's furnished with a wood burning stove, Victorian paintings, ornate silk wallpaper, and fine china.
Georgia’s Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village opened as the Agrirama on July 4, 1976. The grounds consist of five areas: a traditional farm community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town, national peanut complex, and the Museum of Agriculture Center. Over 35 structures have been relocated to the 95-acre site and faithfully restored or preserved. Costumed interpreters explain and demonstrate the life-style and activities of this time in Georgia’s history.
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This 95-acre complex consists of a traditional farm community of the 1870s, a more progressive farmstead of the 1890s, a rural town, an industrial sites complex, a national peanut complex, and the Museum of Agriculture Center.
