Historical Marker
Sumter County Courthouse Bell
Historical marker location:
500 West Lamar Street, Americus, Georgia
( Marker can be reached from South Dudley Street just south of West Lamar Street (State Route 49), on the right when traveling south.)
1860.
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.