Providence Canyon in Lumpkin, Georgia. Photo by @gcalebjones

Lumpkin

Lumpkin, incorporated March 30, 1829, is the county seat for Stewart County. The city was named in honor of Wilson Lumpkin, a two-term governor of Georgia, U.S. Congressman and Senator.

Providence Canyon Conservation Park, located in Lumpkin, is a collection of canyons and gullies. The largest of these is "Grandfather Canyon," which is a half-mile long, 300 feet wide and 150 feet deep. The 1,061-acre park also has the largest natural collection of the rare plumleaf azalea in the world.

Lumpkin was the first small town in Georgia to complete a successful historic preservation project to encourage tourism, with the restoration of the Bedingfield Inn, built in 1836. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is important to the central square.

In the 1960s, residents created a living history complex known as Westville. Historic Westville was created so visitors can experience a community that is similar to the ones in which our ancestors lived in the middle of the 19th century.

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Visitor Information Center

544 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.
Lumpkin, GA
31815
Local: (229) 838-4333
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