Old Carnegie Library

Historical marker location:

305 West Central Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

( Marker is at the intersection of West Central Avenue (U.S. 84) and North Oak Street, on the left when traveling west on West Central Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1993

The city of Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996, and it was the first time that a bomb exploded at the Olympic Games, killing two people and injuring over 100 others.