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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMODW_site-of-fort-defiance_Milledgeville-GA.html
Rendezvous of followers of General Elijah Clarke in the Trans-Oconee Country.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOBF_old-state-capitol_Milledgeville-GA.html
A reproduction of Georgia's State Capitol 1807-1867 stands on the original site. Wings to the main building were added in 1828 and 1837. Here the Secession Convention met Jan. 16, 1861 and after three days of bitter debate passed the secession act…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOBE_statehouse-square_Milledgeville-GA.html
On this tract of twenty acres was built the Statehouse, the original wing of which was completed in 1811. Later additions were made until 1835 when it was finished in its present form. Near the Statehouse stood the Arsenal and the Magazine, brick …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOAB_troup-clark-political-feud_Milledgeville-GA.html
In the street near this site in June 1807, occurred the horse-whipping of Superior Court Judge Charles Tait by his political enemy John Clark, later Governor of Georgia. Clark was fined $2,000 for the assault. The incident illustrates Georgia poli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOAA_state-college_Milledgeville-GA.html
Largely through the efforts of William Y. Atkinson the Georgia Normal and Industrial College was founded in 1889 with J. Harris Chappell as the first president. It became a degree-granting institution in 1917 and included a liberal arts program. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOA7_the-great-seal-of-georgia_Milledgeville-GA.html
When Federal troops entered Milledgeville in November, 1864, Georgia Secretary of State Nathan C. Barnett hid the Great Seal under a house and the legislative minutes in a pig pen 30 yards east of this point. Later they were returned to the Stateh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOA6_sacred-heart-catholic-church_Milledgeville-GA.html
The first Catholic mass was celebrated at Milledgeville in April, 1845, at the Hugh Treanor apartment in the Newell Hotel. Bishop Ignatius Reynolds of the diocese of Charleston, accompanied by Father J. F. O'Neill, visited here in 1847. In 1850 th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO9D_the-rock-landing_Milledgeville-GA.html
Five miles south of this point is the Rock Landing at the head of navigation on the Oconee River and at the junction of the old Indian trading paths leading westward. In 1789 Pres. Washington sent Gen. Benjamin Lincoln here to treat with Chief Ale…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO9A_old-fort-fidius_Milledgeville-GA.html
The first settlement in this section was made up of four frame houses, a dozen or more cabins and a fort. It was called Federal town. Many of the soldiers died so a new fort was built several miles up the river and named Fort Fidius. It was locate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO8S_birthplace-of-charles-holmes-herty_Milledgeville-GA.html
Charles Holmes Herty, one of America's outstanding chemists, was born on this site December 4, 1867. He spent his early life in Milledgeville where he attended the Middle Georgia Agricultural and Military College (now Georgia College). Later he st…