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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EM_the-first-seminole-war-in-decatur-county_Bainbridge-GA.html
The area that became Decatur County played a major role in the First Seminole War. Located on the border with Spanish Florida, the region witnessed persistent violence and raiding between American settlers, Creeks and Seminoles in the early ninete…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EL_decatur-county-during-the-creek-and-seminole-wars-era_Bainbridge-GA.html
Decatur County was once a frontier region shared by the Creek and the Seminole Nations. The Creeks, comprised of dozens of loosely associate groups, lived primarily along the southern reaches of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers in Alabama and Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EK_the-battle-of-fowltown_Bainbridge-GA.html
The Battle of Fowltown, fought just a few miles to the south of this spot, marked the beginning of the First Seminole War. Fowltown was a Seminole village led by Chief Neamathla which had been allied with the British during the War of 1812. It lay…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EJ_the-second-creek-war-and-removal-in-the-decatur-county-area_Bainbridge-GA.html
Conflict between Creeks, Seminoles and Americans continued in the years after the First Seminole War. Beginning in the 1820s in Florida, the United States pressured the Seminoles to relocate to the West. At the same time in Georgia and Alabama, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2769_camp-recovery-monument_Bainbridge-GA.html
Erected on the site of Camp Recovery near which are buried officers and soldiers of the United States Army who died during the Indian Wars in the Flint River and Chattahoochee River countries [sic] 1817 to 1821
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15HR_in-memory-of-revolutionary-soldiers_Bainbridge-GA.html
In Memory of Revolutionary SoldiersWho Settled and Died in Decatur County
Joel Darcy
Private - Capt. Bickham's CompanyMilitia of Burke Co., GA. Commanded by Col. Asa Emanuel
Thomas Fain
Private - N. Carolina LineFought in Battle of Kin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1342_general-andrew-jackson-trail_Bainbridge-GA.html
Here passed the trail used by General Andrew Jackson and his troops on his way to Fort Hughes [now Bainbridge] and Fort Scott fourteen miles southwest during the First Seminole Indian War, March 8, 1818
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12XG_the-bainbridge-volunteers_Bainbridge-GA.html
The Bainbridge Volunteers
Later
The Bainbridge Independents
Organized 1859, by Captain Charles G. Campbell, assembled here in March 1861 and entered service under the command of Captain John W. Evans as Company G, 1st Georgia Regiment
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11XI_steamboats_Bainbridge-GA.html
(Side 1):In 1827 the Fanny was the first of more than 220 steamboats to visit Bainbridge and ply the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system. These boats docked at the city's landings below the high bluff on the Flint River. Bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VF_charles-james-munnerlyn-refuge_Bainbridge-GA.html
(Side 1):Charles James Munnerlyn 1822 ~ 1898
As a delegate to the Georgia Convention at Milledgeville, he voted for secession. After the start of the Civil War, he volunteered as a private. When his health failed he returned home and was electe…