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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0X_first-grain-elevator_Griffin-GA.html
The first grain elevator in Georgia was completed at Orchard Hill in 1946 by the Swint Seed and Grain Co. The original unit with a capacity of 106,000 bushels was filled with the 1946 crop, drawing grain from 200 miles away. A second unit with a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0V_first-paving_Griffin-GA.html
Spalding was the first County between Chicago and Miami on the old Dixie Highway with a concrete highway running from county line to county line. A demonstration strip, completed Jan. 30, 1919, from the city limits of Griffin to and along the fron…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7JT_john-mcintosh-kell_Griffin-GA.html
Near this site was the home of Captain John McIntosh Kell, Executive Officer of the Confederate cruisers Alabama and Sumter. After entering the United States Navy at the age of 17, he served in the Mexican War and in 1853 on Perry's expedition to …