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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14A4_the-waffle-house_Decatur-GA.html
At this location, on Labor Day 1955, Avondale Estates neighbors Joe Rogers, Sr., and Tom Forkner founded the first Waffle House restaurant. The name was inspired by the most popular item on the original menu. The restaurant's focus on fast-food sp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML45_houston-mill-millstone_Decatur-GA.html
From the Houston Mill built in 1873Owned by Maj. W.J. HoustonPurchased from Dr. Chapmon PowellMillstone removed in 1974Mill site destroyed in 1983Donated by Joseph Augustine Sams BondMoved to Old Courthouse Grounds October 2001 by Fred Turner - A.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJHR_the-beacon-community_Decatur-GA.html
Side 1:The Beacon Community was the center of Decatur's African American community until its demolition by the Urban Renewal programs of the mid-1960s. Bounded by N. McDonough Street on the east, W. Trinity Place on the north, Water Street on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJFE_july-22-1864_Decatur-GA.html
This cemetery was the scene of an engagement between 8th Confederate Cavalry Col. J. S. Prather commanding and a large force of Federal troops. The latter were repulsed and 225 prisoners taken.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM937_site-j-oliver-powell-house-shermans-h-dq-rs_Decatur-GA.html
West of this point 75ft., was the ante-bellum residence of James Oliver Powell (1826-1873), Sherman's headquarters, July 19, 1864.
Sherman traveled with Schofield's 23d A.C. from the Chattahoochee River as Power's Fy. July 17 & arrived here Jul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6E1_trail-to-standing-peachtree-and-houston-chapel_Decatur-GA.html
This ancient trail led west to the Indian village of Standing Peachtree. It joined the Shallowford Trail near this spot linking it with trade routes to Stone Mountain. Later becoming a road it was among the first authorized when DeKalb County was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67O_historic-decatur-cemetery_Decatur-GA.html
The oldest known publicly owned burial ground in metro Atlanta, the Decatur Cemetery is believed to predate the city's 1823 incorporation. The first written record is an 1832 act of legislature providing "Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Groun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM60Y_mary-gay-house_Decatur-GA.html
Author, poet, historian and Confederate heroine - Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived in this house from 1850 to 1914. She is best known for her Life in Dixie During the War which describes the Union Siege of Atlanta and the tribulations of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ZC_the-swanton-house_Decatur-GA.html
Ante-bellum residence of Benjamin F. Swanton; once the property of Ammi Williams, a DeKalb County pioneer. Built prior to 1842.
In 1864 the Swanton family was in residence here when the Federal Army of the Tennessee occupied Decatur. This force…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ZA_the-16th-23d-corps-march-to-decatur_Decatur-GA.html
July 19, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., having camped on N. Fork Peachtree Cr., moved S. on old Shallowford Rd. to this point where it joined Schofield's 23d, which had marched S.E. from Goodwin's Crossing (Brookhaven), along roads now designated Briarw…