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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8C9_john-wesley-landing-site_Tybee-Island-GA.html
(upper inscription):John Wesleylanded in Americaon this island.February 6, 1736(lower inscription):Fromthe Journal of John Wesley"Fri,6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It was a small uninhabited island,... over…
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2d LieutenantCorps of EngineersClass of 1897U.S. Military AcademyBorn October 14, 1874Drowned August 31, 1898While attempting to rescue the crewof bark Noe wrecked in Tybee Roads
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NX_federal-batteries-on-tybee-island_Tybee-Island-GA.html
Between February 21 and April 9, 1862, Federal troops under Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore erected 36 guns in 11 batteries, extending eastwardly on Tybee Island from Lazeretto Creek opposite Fort Pulaski. Two of the Federal batteries consisted of rifled …
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A lighthouse on Tybee was one of the first public structures in Georgia. Completed in 1736 by William Blithman of cedar piles and brickwork, its 90 foot height made it the loftiest in America. Destroyed in a storm, it was replaced by another built…
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The Immortal 600 were a group of Confederate officers held prisoners of war at Fort Pulaski during the bitterly cold winter of 1864-1865. They were moved here from Charleston where they had been placed in the line of artillery fire in retaliation …
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On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to commemorate…
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Membership Rollof theOfficers and Privatesof theGerman Volunteersorganized in 1845who left Savannahon board the Steam Tug Sampson on Wednesdaythe 24th of January 1861, to garrisonFort PulaskiJohn H. Stegin, CaptainAnthony Basler, 1st Lieut. &middo…
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For 44 years, Florence Martus (1868-1943) lived on nearby Elba Island with her brother, the lighthouse keeper, and no ship arrived for Savannah or departed from 1887 to 1931 without her waving a handkerchief by day or a lantern by night. Throughou…
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This Memorial Commemorates the act of Lieutenant Christopher Hussey Of the Montgomery Guards and Private John Latham of the Washington Volunteers, the first volunteer regiment of the State of Georgia. While under fire during the bombardment of Apr…