Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia Farm-GHS 005-3-Baldwin Co
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N 33° 07.475 W 083° 15.856
17S E 288757 N 3667380
2628 North Columbia Street, Milledgeville, GA
Waymark Code: WM6ZZ2
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2009
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Andalusia was the home of writer Flannery O´Connor from 1951 until her death in 1964. Born in Savannah in 1925, O´Connor and her family moved to Milledgeville in 1940. O´Connor left Georgia for a time, but returned to Milledgeville in 1951 after being diagnosed with lupus. She then moved with her mother, Regina Cline O´Connor, to the family farm, Andalusia. Here she found inspiration for many of the settings and characters in her stories. While living here, O´Connor completed her two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), as well as her two collections of short stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge published posthumously in 1965.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 005-3
Date: 2007.1
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society and the Flannery O´Connor Andalusia Foundation, Inc.
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