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Deep Roots Festival
Milledgeville, GA · Music
- When
- October 17, 2026
- Where
- 105 E. Hancock St · Milledgeville · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Deep Roots Festival is Milledgeville's flagship downtown fall festival, running since 2003 under the Milledgeville Main Street organization. It combines live regional music, a handmade artist market, food vendors and a car show.
The history within reach
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Deep Roots Festival is Milledgeville's flagship downtown fall festival, running since 2003 under the Milledgeville Main Street organization.
Diagnosed with lupus at twenty-five and given a few years, O'Connor moved back to her mother's dairy farm and wrote almost everything she is known for in a downstairs bedroom, two hours a day.
One small Georgia town produced both Joel Chandler Harris, who took the Br'er Rabbit stories he heard from enslaved storytellers and made a fortune retelling them, and Alice Walker, born to sharecroppers outside town in 1944, who won the Pulitzer for The Color Purple.
Jefferson had a fort and trading post built on the bluff above the Ocmulgee to deal with the Creek Nation, whose land began at the river.
Mississippian people raised platform mounds above the Ocmulgee and built a council chamber with a clay floor moulded into a bird-shaped platform and forty-seven seats.