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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNGX_first-garden-club_Athens-GA.html
Founders' Memorial Garden which commemorates the founders of America's first garden club. The Ladies Garden Club organized in 1891, Athens, Georgia. This garden was developed on University of Georgia campus by University's Landscape Architecture D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME0P_united-states-navy-pre-flight-school_Athens-GA.html
Between 1942 and 1945, the Navy operated a Pre-Flight School on the University of Georgia campus. As one of only five such schools in the nation, the program trained approximately 20,000 cadets in the skills needed as combat pilots in the Pacific …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRN_abraham-baldwin_Athens-GA.html
Born in North Gilbert, Connecticut, November 2, 1754; graduate of Yale, 1772; licensed to preach by the New Haven Association of Ministers, 1775; Tutor in Yale, 1775 - 1779, Chaplain in the Continental Army, 1779 - 1783; Admitted to the Bar 1783; …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCYY_old-athens-cemetery_Athens-GA.html
This site is the original burial ground for Athens and contains the remains of its earliest citizens. It is a part of the original tract of land purchased for The University of Georgia by Governor John Milledge in 1801. All people in Athens were a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCXS_the-stoneman-raid_Athens-GA.html
Closing in on Atlanta in July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman found it "too strong to assault and too extensive to invest". To force its evacuation, he sent Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman's cavalry [US] to cut the Macon railway by which Atlanta's defenders…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCUU_the-athens-double-barrelled-cannon_Athens-GA.html
This cannon, the only known one of its kind, was designed by Mr. John Gilleland, a private in the "Mitchell Thunderbolts," an elite "home guard" unit of business and professional men ineligible because of age or disability for service in the Confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCTY_old-college_Athens-GA.html
Built in 1806 by Jett Thomas to the specifications of college president Josiah Meigs, Old College was the first permanent building on the University of Georgia campus. Originally named Franklin College in honor of Benjamin Franklin, the building s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGX_university-of-georgia_Athens-GA.html
Endowed with 40,000 acres of land in 1784 and chartered in 1785, the charter was the first granted by a state for a government controlled university. After Louisville and then Greensboro were first selected, the current site was chosen.
The fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9EZ_gospel-pilgrim-cemetery_Athens-GA.html
The Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery was founded in 1882 by the Gospel Pilgrim Society, a fraternal organization, to furnish respectable funerals and burial places for Athens-area African Americans. Popular in the nineteenth century, such societies offset …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM97L_hodgson-dodd-park_Athens-GA.html
In their Springdale houses they shared the joys of music and the visual arts with friends, family, students and faculty.HUGH HODGSON 1893 - 1969 570 SPRINGDALE was designed by architect Ed Wade and built in 1941 by Sam Wright for musician HUGH HOD…