Viewing the artifacts and hearing of their history is not only informative but interesting and fun. From Native-American and African-American exhibits to displays of rooms furnished as they might of looked in the past, to fully operating model trains designed to give a bird’s eye view of the railroad industry that helped Grady County grow, the museum has something for everyone. 

Music lovers will delight to the sounds of the 1867 square baby grand piano that has been lovingly restored to its former beauty. The Native-American section with projectile points, arrow heads, and reproductions of clay pots found in area burial mounds will instill young and old with images of days past. New exhibits are planned to honor the American soldier in the battlefields. 

New donations of African-American artifacts allow us to expand our Black History displays and increase our understanding the Colored/Black/African-American culture as it evolved in South Georgia.

The Grady County Museum covers from prehistory to the present. The museum is adding collections of old china, a children’s section, and local businesses. Come see us and leave amazed. 

We are fully handicap accessible.

Admission
$7   Adult
$3  Child (6-17)
Free  Child (5 and under)
$5  Group of 15 or over

Hours
Tuesday-Friday   1-4PM
Saturday  10AM- 2PM

(229) 377-5142

Mailing Address  PO Box 586   Cairo, GA 39828
Museum Address  101 North Broad St   Cairo, GA 39828

Don Nickerson  Director
Cynthia Nickerson  Curator

The Cairoga Club Building, now home to the Grady County History Museum, was built in 1920 and replaced one of the last wooden store buildings on Broad Street. The three street level stores originally housed Britt’s Gent Shop, the Sanitary Barber Shop, and Tony Mike’s California Fruit Company. 

The gentlemen’s club on the second floor was complete with a regulation basketball court with bleachers on each side, a dressing room with showers, a full kitchen, and a large clubroom across the front. There were the obligatory billiard tables and enough space for banquets. 

The Club lasted until the 1930s and the W.B. Roddenbery Company converted the club space into offices where they remained until the company moved to larger quarters. In 1993, the Roddenbery family donated the Building to the Grady County Historical Society for use as a museum. After major renovations to the ground floor were completed, the museum officially opened on December 5, 1999. 

The adjacent Roddenbery Hardware Company building, built in 1906 by W.B. Roddenbery to expand his buggy and hardware business, provides additional space for the Museum. The building was purchased by the City of Cairo in 1997 and renovated in 2010 to serve its present uses as museum space and City Council Chambers.