Burns Club Atlanta Burns Club of Atlanta is fifty-third in seniority among several hundred organizations recognized by the Scottish-based World Burns Federation. Officially organized on January 25, 1896, the centennial year of Robert Burns’ birth, the Burns Club of Atlanta is quite possibly the city’s oldest surviving cultural and literary society. As early as the 1870s, Burns admirers in Atlanta had been meeting in private homes and hotels to celebrate the birthday of the Scottish poet. Shortly after the club’s formation, plans were made to construct for a clubhouse an exact replica of Robert Burns' birthplace in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. Situated in the
James Burns (merchant) of Renfrewshire. The ‘Memoirs’ are filled with detailed accounts of the incidents which befell the nobility of Scotland during turbulent times. James Burns (merchant) James Burns was a Glasgow-born merchant of the 17th century and the author of the "Memoirs of the Civil War and during the Usurpation from 1644 to 1661". Little is known of his history, but he is supposed to be the son of Robert Burns, who is mentioned in "Ure's History of Glasgow",’ and whose name appears in the "List of Linen and Woollen Drapers", commonly called English Merchants, since the year 1600. The manuscript of