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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOK_john-basil-lamar_Macon-GA.html
Col. John Basil Lamer, aide-de-camp of General Howell Cobb, his brother-in-law and close friend, was mortally wounded on September 14, 1862 while vainly trying to rally Cobb's Brigade at Crampton's Gap, Maryland. After temporary burial in Charles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFGV_judge-asa-holt-house_Macon-GA.html
This house, built in 1853 by Judge Asa Holt, was struck by a cannon ball from Gen. Stoneman guns in East Macon during the Battle of Dunlap Hill. July 30, 1864, when the Union army tried unsuccessfully to take Macon. The ball, now in the po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF99_central-city-college-georgia-baptist-college_Macon-GA.html
Founded in October 1899 by the Reverend E. K. Love under the auspices of the Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Central City College served as a co-educational institution of learning for African-American students at both the high school an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF8S_the-first-baptist-church-of-christ_Macon-GA.html
This church was founded in 1826 as the city's first Baptist congregation. It was first located at the site of the present Bibb County Courthouse. The fourth and final move, to this site, occurred in 1883 and the current building was dedicated in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMENZ_st-josephs-catholic-church_Macon-GA.html
The history of Roman Catholicism in Macon dates to a visit in 1829 by Bishop John England of the Diocese of Charleston and the subsequent migration of Irish Catholic families in the 1830s. In 1841 Macon's Catholics received their first pastor, Fat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM80R_camp-wheeler_Macon-GA.html
Camp Wheeler was an army training camp during 1917-19 and 1940-46. It was named for Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906), Confederate Lt. Gen. who was born in Augusta, Ga.The tent camp was established in 1917 after efforts of local businessmen brought Gen. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7XT_confederate-states-central-laboratory_Macon-GA.html
Approximately 100 feet south of the this point stood the Confederate States Central Laboratory. Erected between 1862 and 1865, this laboratory-factory complex spread over 145 acres purchased December 2, 1862. It was intended as permanent facility …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7P9_battle-of-griswoldville_Macon-GA.html
On Nov. 15, 1864, [US) Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman left Atlanta on his devastating "March to the Sea." His force divided into two wings and feinted towardMacon and Augusta while on their way to the capital at Milledgeville. [CS] General William J. Hard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6E6_montpelier-institute_Macon-GA.html
Montpelier Institute, founded in 1842 by Stephen Elliott, Jr., First Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of Georgia, was Georgia`s second oldest school for girls. Col. G.B. Lamar gave the land for the school including Montpelier Springs, long noted as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZO_birthplace-of-sidney-lanier_Macon-GA.html
Sidney Lanier, poet, linguist, musician, mathematician & lawyer, was born in this cottage, Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe Univ. then at Milledgeville, served as a private in the Confederate Army and was captured while commanding a bloc…