Eatonton, Georgia is located about 90 miles southeast of Atlanta on Highway 441, just off I-20 and 45 miles Northeast of Macon. Eatonton is a beautiful southern town which is rich in history and rustic southern charm.

Eatonton was originally dependent upon the cotton industry, as were many other southern towns. With the scourge of the boll weevil, Eatonton turned its attention to the dairy industry as its main source of revenue. Eatonton still hosts the Dairy Festival and The Road Race every year.

Today, Eatonton is a varied community that combines its original agrarian background with industry (such as power generation and the building of modular homes) and leisure (conveniently located near two major lakes).

Visit the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce for more information about Eatonton. To read about current events visit our local paper The Eatonton Messenger.

Famous Putnam Countians include Alice Walker, author of the book "The Color Purple" and Joel Chandler Harris, author of the "Uncle Remus" tales. There is a museum devoted to Uncle Remus memorabilia located just a short walk from the courthouse. The museum is housed in a log cabin made from two original slave cabins. The park in which the museum was built was part of the original home of Joseph Sidney Turner, the little boy in the Uncle Remus Tales.

Rock Eagle 4-H center is located just north of Eatonton on Highway 441. The 4-H center plays host every year to thousands of young visitors attending summer camp. The center offers swimming, hiking, canoeing, fishing, nature studies, wildlife observation, and many other activities. A natural history museum is the most recent addition to the center.

The Rock Eagle Mound is an effigy mound built by Native Americans more than 50 centuries ago. Most scholars believe that the mound was of great religious significance to the culture that built the mound. The exact purpose of the mound is still a mystery however. The mound itself is more than ten feet high at the center and measures more than one hundred feet from wingtip to wingtip. The mound is an awesome place to visit and leaves one with an unexplainable appreciation for the people who built it.