Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia

Immerse yourself in the history and heritage of Georgia’s Historic High Country by engaging with the historical resources of one of the state’s premier archives and research centers. The Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia collects, preserves, and interprets the material and cultural histories of Northwest Georgia’s many communities.

As a community outreach program of Dalton State College, the Bandy Heritage Center’s professional and passionate approach to local history strives to ignite curiosity about the past, spark conversation in the present, and shape the future. Through archival collection, artifact preservation, museum exhibition, scholarly research, and heritage programming, the Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia seeks to articulate and make accessible a compelling, equitable, and inclusive vision for community identity and memory.

In addition to over 100,000 objects contained within its collections, the Bandy Heritage Center also possesses numerous digital resources including driving tours and online exhibitions. It also displays several traveling and permanent exhibits that tell the stories of Northwest Georgia history including “Threads of Home,” an exhibit on the history and legacy of the chenille bedspread industry in the region, housed at the 1911 Freight Depot in downtown Dalton.