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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 479
of a mile from the town center. It was vmdearneath a cloudless sky and on an
afternoon balmy with the breath of opening spring-time that the following program
was rendered:
Invocation.
Song, "The Red Old Hills of Georgia," by the school children.
•Remarks by tlie state regent, Mrs. S. W. Foster, introducing the orator of the day.
Address, by Hon. Lucian Lamar Knight.
Song, "Georgia," by school children.
Benediction,
On an eminence overlooking the City of Macon and the sinuous bed of the Ocmul-
gee Eiver, the site of old Fort Hawkins commands a prospect unsurpassed in the state
for magnificence of view. But nothing today remains of the ancient stronghold
which once stood upon these heights, except a few broken fragments of rock. The
handsome memorial tablet is a work of art. Chiseled into the polished face of the
tablet is a sculptured design of the old fort as it looked when first built in 1806,
while underneath is inscribed in large letters: '' Fort Hawkins.''