AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Historic Augusta Inc. has received a $1,000 grant to support research into the lives and work of African Americans in Augusta during the 1860s.
The Handumy Jean Tahan Museum Fund Internship Grant from the Southeastern Museums Conference will fund an internship for Peyton Millwood.
The recent Mercer University graduate and history major will focus on the roles of African Americans in Augusta households during the Civil War era. He’ll place a special emphasis on the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson, a National Historic Landmark operated by Historic Augusta…