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Albany ( / ɔːlˈbɪni / awl-BI-nee) is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Located on the Flint River, it is the seat of Dougherty County, and is the sole incorporated city in that county. Located in Southwest Georgia, [4] it is the principal city of the Albany metropolitan area. The city's population was 68,089 in 2020.
Albany Map. Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the ninth-largest city in Georgia. Albany is ...
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- Thronateeska Heritage Center
- Albany Museum of Art
- Flint RiverQuarium
- Riverfront Greenway Trail
- Civil Rights Institute
- Zoo at Chehaw Park
- Ray Charles Plaza
- Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
- Old St Teresa Church
- Radium Springs
Located around the 1913 former Union Station rail depot, the Thronateeska Heritage Center on Heritage Plaza comprises a series of buildings making up Albany’s primary museums complex. Taking its name from the Creek native American word for the Flint River, the complex contains a history museum, science museum, rail museum, and planetarium. The Weth...
Founded in 1964, the Albany Museum of Art is made up of six galleries, in addition to an interactive children’s gallery, and auditorium. Its permanent collection includes both American and European paintings, drawings, and sculpture, generally from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of its most celebrated works include ten hand-colored si...
This 5,000 square metre aquarium is located on the banks of the Flint River, and tells the story of the river from its source to the sea, more than 340 miles away, through its series of tanks and displays. Playing home to around 100 different species, its largest tank is an open-air tank some 6.5 metres deep that contains more than 600,000 litres o...
Should you prefer to check out the river for yourself, you can do so by following Albany’s Riverfront Greenway Trail, a wide paved path. It runs for 3 miles along the Flint River from Riverfront Park in downtown Albany to Cox Landing Boat Ramp. Heading roughly north from the center of Albany, the trail can be quite busy with walkers, joggers, and c...
Occupying Old Mt Zion Baptist Church, which dates to 1906, Albany Civil Rights Institute is a museum which uses objects, documents, and the words of individual Georgians to help explain the fight for civil rights. The battle against racial segregation is evocatively demonstrated through the reconstruction of separate waiting rooms for different rac...
Unlike the Flint RiverQuarium, which focuses on species native to the Albany area, the Zoo at Chehaw Park is a living encyclopedia of world species, many of them either endangered or facing extinction in the wild. Visitors can join the African Veldt Ride, which moves through the zoo’s largest enclosure, where seven African species form natural herd...
Lying in a prime location on the left bank of the Flint River, and accessible both from downtown and the Riverfront Greenway Trail, Ray Charles Plaza is dominated by a life-sized sculpture of the musician playing a baby grand piano in his unmatched style. If that wasn’t enough of a drawer, the entire sculpture sits on a rotating base, below which w...
The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site is located in the city of Plains, less than an hour northwest of Albany by road. The site preserves a number of buildings linked with the 39th president of the United States, including his home, school, and a rail depot used as his headquarters for his victorious 1976 election campaign. Each of these sites ta...
At the heart of the downtown district, the simple red brick structure of Old St Teresa Church is the oldest church building in Albany, as well as the oldest Catholic Church still being used for masses in the entire state. Dating from 1859, it was built on land gifted to the church by Nelson Tift, the man who founded Albany twenty years previously. ...
One of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia, Radium Springs lies on the south-eastern outskirts of Albany, around 5 miles or ten minutes from the downtown area. The largest natural spring anywhere in Georgia, Radium Springs boasts deep blue waters that contains small amounts of naturally-occurring radium, the radioactive element first discovered by...
- Enjoy a variety of outdoor recreation activities at Chehaw Park. At 5 weeks, Baby Colobus Monkey is starting to gain its black fur coloration and is exploring more throughout the exhibit! #
- Have fun with your kids at Tift Park. If you’ve got no clue on one of the best things to do in Albany this weekend, visit the city’s oldest park which was founded in 1908.
- Journey through the Flint River ecosystem at Flint RiverQuarium. Flint RiverQuarium showcases the journey of the Flint River from its urban headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico, and its ecosystem.
- Play fun games at All American Fun Park. We love all of the activities we offer at the Fun Park!!! We would love to hear your favorites! Share what your...
Albany, Georgia United States. Details Open in Google Maps Map 120 Pine Ave, Albany, GA (229) 518-1770. Learn More. May 17. Save. Chehaw Feeding Programs ...
The Albany Government Center, Albany, Ga. Albany, city, seat (1853) of Dougherty county, southwestern Georgia, U.S. It lies along the Flint River at the head of navigation, about 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Columbus. Founded in 1836 by Colonel Nelson Tift, it was named for Albany, New York, and was early established as a leading cotton market.
Mar 26, 2005 · Albany, the seat of Dougherty County, has been the commercial hub of southwest Georgia for most of its history. Although it had competitors, namely Americus, Thomasville, and Valdosta, around the beginning of the twentieth century, Albany remains the urban center of the region. The city supports a significant museum, the Albany Museum of Art ...
