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Creator of the Uncle Remus stories and exponent of the New South, Joel Chandler Harris was born December 9, 1848 in Eatonton. After serving an apprenticeship on a plantation newspaper The Countryman near Eatonton and working on several Georgia dai…
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The National Congress of Colored parents and teachers grew from a meeting called at the request of Selena Sloan Butler through the school principal, Cora B. Finley, at Yonge Street School, March 14, 1911. As interest grew, other school units were …
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July 28, 1864. Dep1oyed a1ong the old Greensferry Rd. (West View Dr.) were Gibson's, Holtzclaw's & Baker's brigades (Alabama & Louisiana troops), Clayton's div., forming the right flank of Gen. S. D. Lee's A. C. [CS] in the Battle Of Ezra Church. …
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July 28, 1864. Dep1oyed a1ong the old Greensferry Rd. (West View Dr.) were Gibson's, Holtzclaw's and Baker's brigades (Alabama and Louisiana troops), Clayton's div., forming the right flank of Gen. S. D. Lee's A. C. [CS] in the Battle Of Ezra Chur…
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July 17, 1864. Palmer's 14th and Hooker's 20th A. C. [US] crossed to the Fulton Co. side of the river on two pontoon bridges. This passage was covered by Wood's 4th A.C. div., which marched down Mt. Paran Rd. from Power's Ferry, 3 mi. N. To divert…
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July 17, 1864. Palmer's 14th and Hooker's 20th A. C. [US] crossed to the Fulton Co. side of the river on two pontoon bridges. This passage was covered by Wood's 4th A.C. div., which marched down Mt. Paran Rd. from Power's Ferry, 3 mi. N. To di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1085_battle-of-ezra-ch_Atlanta-GA.html
July 28, 1864. This marks the extreme right of Howard's Army of the Tennessee during the Battle of Ezra Church. Lightburn's brigade of M. L. Smith's div., Logan's A. C., occupied the immediate sector. From here the line ran S. E. to a salient angl…
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Local lore has recorded that in 1838 a hunter hung a deer's head at about this location in front of Irby's Tavern. The Henry Irby family owned 803 surrounding acres and the area was designated Irbyville on maps at that time. People started identif…
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The section of the cemetery encompassing the area behind this marker, bounded by the lane to the east, the sidewalk to the west, and the wall to the south, was established in 1892 as the burial ground for Congregation Ahavath Achim, chartered in 1…
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July 17, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., together with Logan's 15th & Blair's 17th (US), having left Roswell by Shallow Ford Rd. enroute to Decatur, diverged from the column at the road - fork 2.5 mi. N.W. & moved towards Old Cross Keys. Logan & Blair ca…
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