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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23CX_vfw-post-5000_Cusseta-GA.html
VFW Post 5000
Honors
Veterans of Foreign Wars
For Preserving Freedom for
All Citizens of
The United States of America
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM161E_confederate-veterans_Cusseta-GA.html
In memory ofConfederate VeteransofChattahoochee County1861 - 1865
United Daughters Confederacy
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM139Q_fort-benning-fort-benning-military-reservation_Cusseta-GA.html
Side 1: Fort Benning
Kasihta or Cusseta Town, an important Creek Nation market, played a part in American Revolutionary affairs. In 1780 British Colonel John Tate recruited a large force of local Indians for duty with the British in their defen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM134Q_fort-benning-station-hospital-national-infantry-museum_Cusseta-GA.html
Side 1: Fort Benning - Station Hospital
In 1923 the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the erection of a hospital at Fort Benning. The hospital complex, consisting of ten buildings, was opened in 1925. During World War Two as many as 36, 000 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM132A_riverside_Cusseta-GA.html
"Riverside" was built in 1909 by Arthur Bussey, a prominent Columbus, Georgia businessman, and served as a summer home for the Bussey family. The spaciousdwelling was surrounded by one of the last self-supporting plantations in this area. When in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1329_dwight-david-eisenhower_Cusseta-GA.html
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The 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, lived with his family at 206 Austin Loop, while stationed at Fort Benning as a major from 1926-1927.
During that time, he served as executive office of the 24th Infantry …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12YP_post-headquarters-jag_Cusseta-GA.html
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On this site stood Building 5, the first permanent Post HQ building and later the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Building. Built in 1911 as a dairy creamery, it became the Officers' Mess in 1919. In 1924 it became the Post HQ, headed by t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12OU_the-infantry-board_Cusseta-GA.html
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On 15 December 1919, War Department Orders established the Infantry Board as a development and testing laboratory with permanent station at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Board's mission was to consider, with continuity of effort, the impro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6G_old-federal-road_Cusseta-GA.html
The Old Federal Road, which intersected the Chattahoochee River at this natural fording site, was originally a Lower Creek Indian Nation trading path. With the advent of colonization, it became one of western Georgia's earliest and most important …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ34_chattahoochee-county-jail_Cusseta-GA.html
Side 1:This jail is situated on property that was purchased soon after the county was created on February 13, 1854. Mr. Asbury Bryan was paid $1,250 for the original two-story log jail that was completed by July 20, 1855, under the supervision of …