A small tour of some new items and items recently un archived.

Thank you to Ron and Julie White for donating this late 1950's/early 1960's East Point Troop 54 Cub Scouts uniform to the Historical Society.


Sister Cities International. Items sent from East Point Ga's. sister city, Puerto Limon Costa Rica.


Plates depicting the Churches of East Point, donated by various members and citizens over the years.

Snow at the EPHS. Feb. 12, 2010.

Some of the things you can see when visiting the EPHS.

This in not a complete list of what we have at our Museum and Archive, but it will give you an idea.

Photographs from all era's of East Point History 1800's through to present. People, Railroad, City Government, High School, Recreation, Cemetery, Homes, World War II Veterans, VFW, Elks Club,Business, Club and Civic, families and family albums, Fire Dept. Police Dept, Churches, African America, Pioneers and more. (Including our mammoth 1950's East Point Swimming pool full wall photo, black and white that was hand colorized by the late B.H. Orr.)

Vintage city maps from 1800's through the 1900's. Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of homes, business and various East Point buildings and locations. Late 30's and 1940's.

High School Memorabilia.
All years of Russell and Briarwood, Most of Headland (not complete.)
Files on High Schools. Russell Wildcat Newspapers. Russell class directories, Russell High School Alumni association Files. Much more.

Limited albums from Harris St. Central Park, Dodson Dr. Elementary schools.
School files.

Files and archives on anything imaginable about East Point. Including family files, city, recreation, clubs ect.

Hillcrest Cemetery burial records and cemetery plotting maps.
Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery rolls/Transcription.
Cemetery information on all smaller family, pioneer cemeteries.
All above with a cemetery historian available to help.

Pre 1960's 3 digit street numbering system that mirrors current 4 digit numbering system.

Written city history's by Thompson, Larcom, Mason and Thesis projects by Dodd, Flagg and others.

City Council minutes from 1909 to the 1970's.

Suburban reporter Newspapers on Micro film, hard copy and transcribed binders.

Memorabilia, artifacts and more.

Again, this is the tip of the iceberg.

Visit the Society and support this ALL VOLUNTEER institution.

There are hundreds if not thousands of old photographs related to East Point's History at the Society. We also have yearbooks for all classes of Russell, Briarwood and others. Plenty of exhibits and actual historic items from all eras. We have volumes of research materials and the experts on East Point History to help you do your research. It is free to the public. Due to the fact that offering photos and gallery's on line has not improved our visitor numbers at the society, we have decided that our samples collection should be viewed on site with the rest of the collection rather than online.

Remember, it's free, donations are accepted and appreciated. The East Point Historical Society is a private organization, not owned or ran by the City of East Point. All staff members are unpaid volunteers working to keep your history alive, often times paying out of their own pockets to keep the collection available with very little help and no donations coming in. Please support your Historical Society and when you visit, please consider making a much needed donation.

Please renew your memberships for 2010.

If you received a newsletter this pass month, you will see a renewal form printed on the back, please take the time to clip the form and mail it to us with your dues. We appreciate our members and hope that they appreciate what we offer. If you do, please support us in our endeavors to preserve your history and renew today!

WWII Memorial donated to EPHS.