Georgia Salzburger Society Museum — Attraction in Georgia

The museum and and several historic buildings including a huge brick church are located in a pleasant wooded area adjacent to the Savannah river, Including a natural amphitheater facing the Savannah river just south of where Ebenezer creek flows into the river, which is used for sunrise services. This area offers a couple of nice views of the river. The museum is relatively small, Basically four rooms filled with displays of many beautiful items and paintings and books etc., detailing the history of the Salzburg protestants who were expelled from Salzburg(Austria)in the 1700s and eventually came to Georgia and established a community in what is now Ebenezer Georgia. The two Salzburger Society members I met were very cordial and welcoming. There is no admission charge but there is a small gift shop and donations are welcomed. Each of the historic buildings and other areas on the grounds have interactive plaques that you access via QR Code. The grounds are a very Peaceful and relaxing place. especially down by the river. This would be a great place for school field trips, especially for home school groups and anyone who enjoys Learning about the history of specific early...

To fully understand the beginning of Georgia history, you have to include the Salzburgers and the community of New Ebenezer. This new home for these Protestant Lutherans was an opportunity for them to escape persecution in their Homeland and begin anew in this Wilderness. What is difficult to comprehend are the obstacles the community faced to not only survive, but to thrive. So much of that history is nicely presented in this museum, with many relics of their lives on display. These well preserved items help to visualize how they lived their lives. And they continue to find items through excavations at the original site and the new community site. The building used for the museum is a replica of the original orphanage, and there are a couple of other notable buildings on...

I visited many years ago on my way home from Savannah. I have so much family history here I had read about but never seen. I wish they had been open when we were there but we were too late but I love walking around and just seeing everything and the feeling was just unexplainable. Just seeing where some of my ancestors came to the country...