Historical Marker

America’s First Garden Club

Historical marker location:
973 Prince Avenue, Athens, Georgia
( Marker is at the intersection of Prince Avenue (U.S. 129) and North Chase Street, on the right when traveling east on Prince Avenue.)
Marker installed: 1963

The state of Georgia was home to the first American-born saint, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Sacred Heart Orphanage in Savannah in 1900.
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