Map Portal

This map portal and accompanying story map highlight and provide scholarly resources to support studies involving the Old Athens Cemetery, the Oconee Hill Cemetery, and the use of geographic space through time in Athens, Georgia. The multiple maps, images and documents compiled by this project help visualize and understand the growth of the City of Athens, the UGA campus and surrounding living and working environment of the people.

You can use the map embedded into this page for exploration or you can view the map in full page mode. For examples of how to use this portal in your historical research, visit our Using the Portal page; for detailed instructions on the portal’s tools, visit the Help page. Datasets made available through this map portal can be downloaded for further exploration and are provided using Google Earth compatible formats. To access files with datasets please visit our Download page. Instructions on how to use those datasets with Google Earth are provided in two versions, for PC or Mac users.