FOMR 2018 Annual Meeting Date: Monday, November 12, 5:30 – 8:15pm Place: The Carrollton Presbyterian Church, Westminster Hall, located at 124 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30117 Invited Speaker: Diana Hartel, who will be discussing her new book, Watershed Redemption: A Journey in Time on Five U.S. Watersheds. The Chattahoochee is one of the five rivers. If you want […]
McIntosh Reserve Park will hold an Easter Egg "Hunt" on Saturday, April 20. Festivities for the kids begin at 12, with the hunt at 2 pm. Park personnel recommend arriving by 1:30 to get parked and make it to the right spot for the egg harvesting. The parking fee for this event is $5.00.
The FOMR Annual Meeting will be at McIntosh Reserve Park on Monday, Oct. 14, beginning at 5:30. Following dinner and a short Annual Meeting, our speaker, Jeff Bishop, Director of the Funk Heritage Center at Reinhardt University, will discuss the culture of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. Both meat and vegetable options will be available for […]
We now have a walking guide about the geology of Carroll County near the Carrollton Greenbelt on this FOMR website. The guide was written and photographed by Dr. Tim Chowns, Professor Emeritus of the University of West Georgia. The guide is on the Publications/Other Publications page.
The FOMR informal hike on Saturday, January 29 at 10 am will be at Moore's Bridge Park. Meet at the facilities building near the entrance to Moore's Bridge off Black Dirt Road. The planned hike on hilly terrain will take about 45 minutes. The parking fee at the park is $5.00.
Saturday, Feb. 5, 10 am Come join FOMR for an informal hike to the proposed site for a walking bridge between McIntosh Reserve Park and Chattahoochee Bend State Park. The start point for the hike will be southwest of McIntosh Park off of Highway 5. (From the roundabout in Whitesburg, go southwest on Highway 5 toward Roopville […]
The Wider Implications of the William McIntosh Story Presented by Doug Mabry, Historian February 22nd 5:30 pm Historic Banning Mills Wilkinson Room 205 Horseshoe Dam Road Whitesburg, GA 30185 Sponsored By Historic Banning Mills and Friends of McIntosh Reserve Come at 4:30 pm for a walk around the Banning Mills Historic […]
March 5 (Saturday) 10 am: Informal hike at Moore's Bridge We plan to hike from the Black Dirt side of the park to the Highway 16 side. The hike is about 1.75 miles one way. Most of the path is scenic and easily walkable. At other spots it is hilly and can be slippery when there has been […]
The Chattahoochee RiverKeeper is sponsoring a river clean-up called Sweep the Hooch on March 26, 2022 from 9 am to 12 pm. One of the sites for the clean-up is McIntosh Reserve Park. Please visit chattahoochee.org to register for this river clean-up. Chattahoochee RiverKeeper is accepting registrations individually, since there is a Liability Waiver and Photo Release to sign (all […]
May 7, 2022 - Saturday, 10 am - For an informal hike with Gerry Lowrey at McIntosh along the Moonshine's Alley trail. Meet at the park entrance parking area.