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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG13_rockby_Sparta-GA.html
About 1 mi. from here, Richard Malcolm Johnston, lawyer, educator, and author, operated Rockby, a school for boys revolutionary in its day. Disgusted with the harsh disciplinary methods of the time, Johnston instituted an honor system whereby stud…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFYT_nathan-s-s-beman-at-mt-zion_Sparta-GA.html
Nathan Sidney Beman, Presbyterian minister, educator, editor, college president, after graduating from Middlebury College, Vermont, taught and preached in New England until 1812, when he came with his wife to Georgia to regain his health. "A man o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFYO_gov-william-jonathan-northen_Sparta-GA.html
William Jonathan Northen, Governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, lived in this house. Born in Jones County, July 9, 1835 of Scotch ancestry, Governor Northen graduated from Mercer University. He taught for many years at Mt. Zion School in Hancock …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8NT_sparta-cemetery_Sparta-GA.html
The main cemetery in Sparta was established on property deeded to the town in 1806. Burials illustrate a common nineteenth-century pattern of migration to the area, as settlers from New England and Virginia moved south and west through the Carolin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8N5_gov-william-rabun_Sparta-GA.html
The home of William Rabun, Governor of Georgia 1817-1819. Born in Halifax County, N.C., April 8, 1771, Governor Rabun moved to Wilkes Co., Ga., in 1785. Having the usual backwoods schooling of his day, he acquired by reading and observation, exten…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8N4_powelton-baptist-church_Sparta-GA.html
The Powelton Baptist Church, first known as Powell Creek Church, was constituted July 1st, 1786, with 26 members by the Rev. Silas Mercer, the Rev. John Harvey, and the Rev. John Thomas. The Rev. Jesse Mercer became pastor of this church on Februa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM629_july-1858_Sparta-GA.html
In July 1858 an Irish Foxhound arrived in Georgia as a gift from the noted hunter, Nimrod Gosnell of Roxbury Mills, Maryland to Colonel Miles G. Harris of Hancock County. The male puppy was named "July." Col. Harris invited fox hunters for miles a…