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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25O8_welcome-to-magnolia-springs-the-civil-wars-camp-lawton_Millen-GA.html
In 1864, the Confederate States of America built a prisoner of war camp here. Named Camp Lawton, the stockade, designed to hold 40,000 prisoners, enclosed 42 acres. The first prisoners arrived from Andersonville in late September of 1864. Due to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25O7_rediscovering-through-archaeology-the-civil-wars-camp-lawton_Millen-GA.html
According to one source, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Camp Lawton's few permanent structures, including its prisoner stockade, burned. The grounds quickly reverted to their previous use as farmland. Over the years, nature and man erased…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y7N_battle-of-buck-head-creek_Millen-GA.html
Big Buckhead Baptist Church was initially established in 1774 but was disrupted by the Revolutionary War. It was reconstituted in 1787. Delegates to the annual convention of Georgia Baptists meeting here in 1831, "Resolved, that as soon as the fun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y7D_millen-junction_Millen-GA.html
Millen Junction was founded in 1835 as an inn owned by Robert
Hendricks Gray. Originally named Brisonville, it is located
approximately 80 miles from Savannah on the Central Railroad of
Georgia. Thus the town was also called "The 80 Mile Depot"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLL_sherman-at-the-jones-plantation_Millen-GA.html
On Dec.1, 1864, the 17th Corps (Blair's) of Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman's army [US] moved from Burton (Midville) to Herndon, Station No. 9, CRR, and camped in and near the town. Gen. Sherman, who had accompanied the 17th Corps since the army passed Sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLH_old-savannah-road_Millen-GA.html
The highway crossing here is the Old Savannah Road, an early route from Savannah to Georgia's western frontier. It follows the course of a former Indian trail to the Rock Landing on the Oconee, below today's Milledgeville. There it intersected the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME3K_the-wayside-home_Millen-GA.html
This boulder is placed byThe Wayside Home ChapterUnited Daughters of the Confederacyof Jenkins County, Georgia andThe Margaret Jones ChapterUnited Daughters of the Confederacyof Burke County, Georgiato perpetuate the name ofThe Wayside Homeand as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMATD_camp-lawton_Millen-GA.html
Site of Camp Lawton A Confederate Military Prisonbuilt in 1864 to relieve theovercrowded condition atAndersonville Prison in MaconCounty. Lawton Prison was astockade, enclosing 42 acres.1398 feet by 1329 feet consideredto be the largest in the wor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8NQ_millen-flagpole_Millen-GA.html
This flagpole and flags were placedhere on April 30, 2000 by theJenkins County Development Authorityto honor all servicemen who servedin the American Revolution,World War I, World War II,The Korean Conflict, The Vietnam War.and Desert Storm.Arrang…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8N0_millen-fountain_Millen-GA.html
This fountainwas originally in the lobbyof the Estelle Hotel.The hotel was constructed in 1912and was located onGray Street in Millen, Georgia.Through the generosityof several local citizens, theJenkins County Development Authoritywas able to obt…