News and Activities

Photography Contest!

Prizes in each Category! Round Up your old photographs taken up through the 1950’s. We will scan and return the photographs. Some categories include:

• Oldest Documented Photograph
• Oldest Family Portrayed in Photograph
• Oldest Wedding Photograph
• Oldest Picture in Military Service Uniform
• Best Children’s Photograph
• Best Downtown Photograph
• Best Picture in a Service Uniform
• Best School Photograph
• Best Event Photograph

See the contest flyer for more details and entry information.

Receiving Volunteers!

Join our growing volunteer list by filling out our email form.

Oral Histories

Using donations from several local groups, The NHC is engaged in a year-long oral history collection project.

We are working with a professional videographer and preparing a storyboard with local participants. The end-product will have multiple uses.

Traveling, Rotating Exhibit

The Duluth Museum has invited The Norcross History Center ™ Museum to display its traveling, rotating exhibit in their galleries located at the Duluth Welcome Center in the historic Alice Strickland House beginning in April. The Strickland House is just four miles from Norcross, so visitors approaching will be able to know about the Norcross Story.

Duluth Museum Moving to Historic Strickland House

Don't miss the Grand Opening of the Historic Strickland House Museum Saturday, May 30th in Duluth from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Ribbon Cutting is at Noon; admission is Free. The Norcross History Center ™ will be a guest exhibitor, and will feature Norcross Veterans memorabilia in its rotating exhibit on the second floor of the historic c. 1898 home located on Buford Highway, just above GA 120. The 100-year old house, home of the first woman mayor in Georgia, sits on 5 acres of gardens and old growth timber.

Still Looking for Museum Location in Norcross

As a Norcross Museum and History Center, our location preference in downtown Norcross is still the historic Rectory house, next to the Historic Methodist Church, which is about the same age as the Duluth Museum’s Strickland House. The City has currently closed the house and repairs are delayed. It is being used for storage.

City Announces its Plans for a Welcome Center

The brick house at 189 Lawrenceville Street will be used as a Welcome Center and multi-purpose offices, according to a letter from Mayor Bucky Johnson received February 11, 2008. The house is owned by the county, but leased by the city for $1 a year, and must be used for a Welcome Center, offices or a museum, according to terms of the lease.

There is not enough room for a fully-functional museum, space is even limited to show the entire Baseball Memorabilia Exhibit now housed in the City Hall rotunda. A multi-use building is not suitable for The Norcross History Center ™ Museum due to security needs and insurance liability concerns.

We hope that some nod to history is displayed in the Welcome Center with photographs and wall posters. But priceless artifacts (small to large such as quilts, books, farm equipment, furniture) will need to be housed in a secure museum.

We hope the city will work with us on this.

Our location preference in downtown Norcross is still the historic Rectory house, next to the Historic Methodist Church, that is about the same age as the Duluth Museum’s Strickland House.

• For an in-depth Report, visit the Save Historic Norcross website: www.savehistoricnorcross.com