Georgia B Williams Restoration Project

12/17/2025

❤️🙌🏾

12/17/2025

Preservation in Progress! Rehabilitation of Ms. Bea's has begun. Stay tuned!

05/13/2025

Due at the end of this week: Contractor Responses to the RFP for Rehabilitation work at the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home! Please submit all questions to [email protected]

https://www.beasbabies.org/project

A pivotal first step, Preservation Plans serve as planning and management tools to assemble information about a historic resource in order to provide the necessary information to responsibly deal with existing issues and concerns about the resources and plan for its future, guide implementation of r...

05/02/2025

📢📢ANNOUNCEMENT

Georgia B Williams Restoration Project is seeking a preservation contractor to perform the first phase of rehabilitation work! ✨✨

Proposals are due May 18. Visit beasbabies.org for details!

Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Inc. is a 501c3 organization that exists to honor and share the legacy of Beatrice Borders and restore the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home as a museum and educational center.

09/20/2023

Thanks for the mention, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution!

Many sites across the state that were important during the modern civil rights movement have met the 50-year threshold for historic consideration in recent years, but finding the money to save the crumbling buildings is a challenge.

07/25/2022

GBWNH, INC. continues to ask Ms. Bea's Babies to do a 5minute video interviewing your mother on her experience at Ms. Bea's place when giving birth to your child or children. You can do it with the touch of your cell phone. Let us know:
1. Your name,
2. How many children did you give birth to at the shelter?
3. How was the service at the birthing center...the medical service, food, and total care?
4. How did the Georgia B Williams Nursing Home benefit the community of Mitchell County and southwest Georgia?

Upload your video by August 13, 2022 to https://www.dropbox.com/request/StOYinwCmkpYvjF5Q6fp
By submitting your video, you are giving GBWNH, INC. permission to use your video for educational purposes and for promoting the Georgia B Williams Nursing Home Restoration Project.

05/29/2022

National Trust for Historic Preservation
12h ·
Earlier this month the National Park Service awarded $16.2 million in African American Civil Rights grants that will benefit 44 projects in 15 states and support the continued preservation of sites and history related to the African American struggle for equality.
We are thrilled to see that among the sites receiveing funding are four places recently listed on the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in America list: Historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, AL (2022); Georgia B Williams Restoration Project in Camilla, GA (2021); The Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, MS (2021); and Pine Grove Rosenwald School near Richmond, VA (2011).
Also on the list are three recent recipients of HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative funding through the National Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund: Rust College in Holly Springs, MS (2022); Shaw University in Raleigh, NC (2022); and Benedict College in Columbia, SC (2021).
Congratulations to all of the recipients!

02/02/2022

❤️❤️ We love to see this post from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture honoring midwives as we kick off National Black History Month! Ms. Mary Coley, pictured here, lived just down the road from Ms. Bea in Albany, Georgia!

11/30/2021

It's and we need your support! Here is FIVE reasons to give to the Georgia B Williams Restoration Project:
(1) The project will preserve the home of third generation African-American midwife Beatrice Borders.
(2) Over 6,000 babies can trace their roots to their birth in this home.
(3) The historic rehab of Borders' home will mean the creation of a museum honoring the southern African-American midwife.
(4) The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home is one of the nation's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation
(5) You're supporting the grassroots efforts of a handful of dedicated individuals in rural southwest Georgia to ensure the legacy and home of Beatrice Borders is not lost.
Visitblackhistory.com City of Camilla Camilla Chamber of Commerce Camilla Enterprise

The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home was the private residence and work… Jacquelyn Briscoe needs your support for Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Restoration

11/22/2021

More press! http://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-georgia-race-and-ethnicity-atlanta-e3d7037f592fbd52b39860f2a4f8ecd2

ATLANTA (AP) — Sites from African American history, a suburban Atlanta neighborhood and a rural fairground are among the 10 Places in Peril named this year by the Georgia Trust For Historic Preservation.