The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home was the private residence and workplace of third-generation African American midwife Beatrice Borders (1892-1971), who delivered over 6,000 babies over the course of her lifetime. Operating as a lay midwife for many years, Beatrice opened the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home in 1941 in honor of her mother, establishing a safe place for expecting African American mothers to give birth. Operating throughout segregation and the Jim Crow era, the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home was the only African American owned birthing center for expectant mothers in Georgia for over 30 years. As stated by former Camilla Mayor and Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Inc. President Mary Jo Haywood, “This place virtually birthed a city.”