Nov 6, 2025
Lyon Farm Opens To Public Tours
Since the Arabia Alliance hosted a Celebration back in August, there’s been demand for public tours of DeKalb’s only extant plantation home. This month, those tours start. Beginning...
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Aug 21, 2025
Arabia Alliance Celebrates Game-Changing Lyon Farm Preservation
On August 14, several years after a delay caused by COVID, more than 130 visitors attended the Arabia Alliance’s celebration of its most ambitious restoration project to-date: the stabilization...
Jul 15, 2025
Heritage Area Resident Roy Goddard Turns 102
Born on the Fourth of July in 1923, Roy Goddard’s life accomplishments include a seventy-plus-year marriage and serving as a paratrooper during WWII. The Fourth of July isn’t just the...
Jul 10, 2025
Arabia Reads Walk & Talk With Gene Kansas’ “Civil Sights”
Arabia Reads is thrilled to bring award-winning, Atlanta preservationist and real estate developer Gene Kansas to talk about his latest book Civil Sights. In this beautifully illustrated book, Kansas...
May 22, 2025
Volunteer: Habitat Restoration Workday At Historic Wilburn Farm
Birds Georgia is restoring approximately 20 acres of grassland for birds and other wildlife at the Historic Wilburn Farm in the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area. The goal of this...
May 22, 2025
Volunteer: Habitat Restoration Workday At Historic Wilburn Farm
Birds Georgia is restoring approximately 20 acres of grassland for birds and other wildlife at the Historic Wilburn Farm in the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area. The goal of this...
May 20, 2025
Celebrating Preservation, Conservation and Interpretation at Lyon Farm
Join the Arabia Alliance on August 14, 9:30am-12pm for our Celebrating Preservation, Conservation and Interpretation at Lyon Farm. Participate in the updated interpretive tour and discover plantation...
May 8, 2025
That Time The Navy Tested Explosives At Arabia Lake
Rock quarrying seems to not have been the only source of explosions at Arabia Mountain… Many sites around the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area have been used for more than...
Apr 17, 2025
Black Lives Matter Street Painting In Lithonia
Join us in Downtown Lithonia on May 4 for a community street painting! Together, we’ll upgrade and repaint the “Black Lives Matter” mural on Main Street. This event is free...
Apr 17, 2025
Arabia Reads: History Walk & Talk With Bennett Parten
Arabia Reads is thrilled to bring historian Bennett Parten to Black Dot Cultural Center in Lithonia to sign and read from his new book Somewhere Toward Freedom. As part of...
Apr 15, 2025
Sunset Amphibian Hike At Arabia
Join Ranger Shaundon for a fun evening at Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve. Explore the fascinating world of amphibians as the sun sets over the beautiful surroundings. Bring your friends...
Mar 10, 2025
Lunch & Share: Lithonia History With DeKalb History Center
Get ready – the DeKalb History Center is coming to Lithonia! The local History Center collects history and would like to add yours to the collection. They are seeking photographs...