Robert Grier

• General Notes
  • On the right side of the road, on this land, is the plantation home of his father, Aaron Grier, Sr., Revolutionary soldier, Robert Grier, founder of the nationally famous "Grier's Almanac," was born in 1782. Growing up in frontier Georgia, Grier did not have a formal education -- but he did have access to his father's extensive library, where he read voraciously. An amateur astronomer and accomplished mathematician, Grier put his knowledge to good use by publishing an almanac predicting sunrises and sunsets, lunar eclipses and phases, plus general weather trends. So accurate and popular was his almanac that it became an annual publication until Grier's death, at which point another publisher took the reigns, and then another. Grier's Almanac has now been published annually for almost two hundred years, and its sales have exceeded two million. First published in 1807 as "The Georgia and South Carolina Almanac," the almanac made Robert Grier's name a household word in the nation until his death in 1848. Published continuously since its founding, it became "Grier's Almanac" soon after Robert Grier died.