The Phoenix Flies Celebration of Atlanta’s historic sites returns in 2024 for its 21st year! If you’re unfamiliar with this amazing event, now is the time to check it out!
From March 2nd through 26th, Phoenix Flies will feature 100+ FREE tours of:
- Atlanta landmarks
- Historic homes
- Historic churches
- Old neighborhoods like Grant Park and Inman Park
- Noteworthy architecture
- Cemeteries
- Civil War sites
- Colleges and university campuses
- Parks
- Civil rights landmarks
- Town squares and business districts
- BeltLine sites
For anyone with an interest in local history, architecture, and historic figures, this 23-day preservation celebration is a dream come true. The list of tours and the venues included is just mind-boggling.
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The Swan Coach House, at the Atlanta History Center
ACT FAST and register now for FREE tours
While the tours and events are free, many of them require a ticket. Ticket registration opens to the public on February 21, 2024.
To browse the ticketed tours and register through Eventbrite, click here and then scroll down to find the Phoenix Flies events — they’ll appear after the ticketed tours with a price tag.
If you’re browsing thru Eventbrite, don’t be discouraged if the earliest events are already sold out — just scroll down to later in March to find events that are still open.
Also, if you are already closed out of a tour you’re interested in, it is very much worth it to join the wait list. We’ve found that many people reserve tickets early, and then cancel them before the event date.
There are also FREE events that don’t require a ticket.
You can find them in this online guide to the events, but it’s in the form of a digital flipbook online — it’s nearly impossible to read on a mobile device, so you’ll need to look at at on a computer screen.
You can also pick up a printed copy of the program guide at the Atlanta Preservation Center, located at 327 St Paul Ave SE in Grant Park.
The historic Glenn House in Inman Park
We just don’t have the time or girlpower to list over 100 tours on our calendar of free events, so this post is your only notice that the events are happening and registration is open NOW.
Full confession: We registered for 7 tours and joined the wait list for one more.
Because free is good, and history is cool.
The historic Trolley Barn in Inman Park
Join the Atlanta Preservation Center for more free tours
When you buy a yearly membership to the Atlanta Preservation Center, you can enjoy free admission to all its regularly scheduled walking tours.
A single membership is just $35, and a family membership is just $60.
Since tours are about $13 each, ($7 for students and seniors) the membership can pay for itself in no time if history is your thing.
Utoy Cemetery, one of Atlanta’s oldest burial grounds, has been in use since at least 1816 and was also the site of a Civil War field hospital. The cemetery contains a rich array of monument types not seen elsewhere in the city, as well as veterans from every American war.
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