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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGGF_jefferson-davis_Sandersville-GA.html
On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (68 miles N), where he performed what proved to be his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Shortly thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed enr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGFW_rev-j-d-anthony_Sandersville-GA.html
James Danelly Anthony entered the Methodist ministry at the 1847 Georgia Conference and after 50 years of service retired in 1897. He had 12 different charges and was 4 times Presiding elder for separate districts, one being the Sandersville Distr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGFS_saunders-store_Sandersville-GA.html
The present site of the building, which stands on the corner of South Harris Street and West Haynes Street, was the location of Mr. Mark Sander's store at the crossing of roads. On December 19, 1793, the Legislature of Georgia authorized that a ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGFL_old-city-cemetery_Sandersville-GA.html
Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGFI_governor-thomas-w-hardwick_Sandersville-GA.html
Governor Thomas William Hardwick, lawyer and statesman, spent most of his life in this city. Born in Thomasville, Dec. 9, 1872, he graduated from Mercer in 1892 and from Lumpkin Law School, U. of Ga., in ?93, in which year he was admitted to the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGE0_washington-county-courthouse_Sandersville-GA.html
Washington, Georgia's ninth county and first in the nation to be named for George Washington, was created in 1784 for granting land to soldiers for Revolutionary War services.
Court House Square, located on the old stage coach road from Louisvi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGDQ_masonic-temple_Sandersville-GA.html
A beautiful reproduction of the Greek Temple Athene, erected in 1855-56 for the Masons, of brick, hand-made by slaves, stood on this corner. An appeal by Mr. James D. Anthony and Dr. James R. Smith — Methodist Ministers — and Mr. Pincu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG7W_the-march-to-the-sea_Sandersville-GA.html
On Nov. 24, 1864, the Left Wing of Gen. Sherman's army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Oconee River at Milledgeville enroute to Sandersville. On the 26th, after delays caused by destructio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG7S_david-a-gordon_Sandersville-GA.html
For over 60 years this outstanding Negro was an entrepreneurial, educational, religious, and political leader in Washington County. On this site in 1897 he founded the Royal School for young Negro children.