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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CN2_griswoldville_Macon-GA.html
Griswoldville is among the most severe examples of destruction during the March to the Sea. Nothing remains today of the industrial town that once occupied this crossroads. Named for Samuel Griswold (1790-1867), a Connecticut industrialist, Griswo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM233O_fencing-from-findlay-foundry_Macon-GA.html
This fencing was manufactured c. 1856 at the Findlay Foundry and once enclosed the Robert Findlay estate. The Findlay Foundry was operated by the Confederate States Ordnance Bureau as the Macon Arsenal from 1862 -1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XW_camp-oglethorpe_Macon-GA.html
After the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, on April 6 & 7, 1862, the Confederate government selected Macon as a Federal prisoner-of-war camp site. The Macon Fair and Parade Grounds was used to incarcerate 900 prisoners-of-war later that spring. Named …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5Y_fort-hawkins_Macon-GA.html
During the early 1800s, Georgia grew through a series of treaties with the Creek Indians. After the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson authorized Benjamin Hawkins, Agent for Indian Affairs, to negotiate the 1805 treaty to expand Georgi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5R_cowles-bond-house_Macon-GA.html
This impressive home was already more than a quarter century old when Union Major General James Harrison Wilson occupied it in 1865. It is a masterpiece of one of Macon's most notable early master-builders, Alexander Elam who designed this house f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y54_macon-defensive-fortifications_Macon-GA.html
Military earthworks, also variously called redoubts, lunettes, entrenchments and breastworks, have been used for centuries as points of lookout and defense. Early in the Civil War, soldiers learned to dig a simple trench behind an earthen parapet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y48_unknown-but-not-forgotten_Macon-GA.html
Before you are the known graves of almost 1,000 people who died enslaved. Despite the enormous number of people who died in slavery in the United States, the burial sites of only a small number of the enslaved are known. Oak Ridge Cemetery is sign…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y47_oak-ridge-cemetery_Macon-GA.html
After the Civil War, the three distinct sections present in Oak Ridge today began to form. In addition to the antebellum and Civil War burials of enslaved people, a portion of Oak Ridge was sold to William Wolff in 1879 as a burial ground for Temp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y43_battle-of-griswoldville-historical_Macon-GA.html
Colonel Charles Colcock Jones, General Hardee's Chief of Artillery. summarized the Battle of Griswoldville:
"This engagement, while it reflects great credit upon the gallantry of the Confederate and State forces engaged, was unnecessary, unexpe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y3Z_oak-ridge-cemetery-historical_Macon-GA.html
Macon native Simri Rose, for whom Rose Hill Cemetery is named, established these grounds in 1840. Rose set aside ten acres of the property for slave owners to purchase and bury enslaved people and to bury city-owned enslaved people. On September 1…