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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B6_eastside-cemetery_Statesboro-GA.html
Eastside Cemetery was established on this site in 1889 in response to citizens' requests for a central location for the burial of the dead. Early cemeteries, known is burying grounds, dotted fields of early Bulloch County family farms. Majestic ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TQ_upper-lotts-creek-primitive-baptist-church-and-cemetery_Statesboro-GA.html
Organized circa 1829, the church was originally located at the home of Absolom Parrish and called Parrish Meeting House. Following a fire of the log structure on the Parrish farm, the congregation built a second log structure one and one-half mile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20SI_1790-union-meeting-house_Statesboro-GA.html
In 1790, John Crawford and Phillip Mathews, Burke Circuit preachers, organized a Methodist Society in the home of Joshua Hodges, Sr. In 1791, Union Meeting House became a frequent entry in Circuit records. In 1794, Union Trustees obtained from Scr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20SH_1804-new-hope-methodist-church_Statesboro-GA.html
Organized from Union by Rev. Lewis Mayers, New Hope was Bulloch's second Methodist Church. 1804 trustees were David Kennedy, Josiah Everette, Jarvis Jackson, Burrell Whittington and William M. Kennedy: other leaders were Joseph Hodges, Eli Kennedy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20R8_harville-house_Statesboro-GA.html
Samuel's son, Keebler Henry Harville, purchased the property and built the Harville House as a one-story house around 1894. The second story was added ten years later resulting in a total of 14 rooms to accommodate a growing family. The vernacular…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20OA_banks-dairy-farm_Statesboro-GA.html
The Banks Dairy Farm was operated on this site and included 900 acres of cultivated land combined with dairying operations. David Callaway Banks, born April 8, 1882, in Bulloch County, Georgia, was the founder of Banks Dairy Farm and The City Dair…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM76U_skirmish-at-statesboro_Statesboro-GA.html
Approaching Statesboro on Dec. 4, 1864, a strong party of mounted foragers from Hazen's division, 15th Corps (USA), on the right of Gen. Sherman's army on its destructive March to the Sea, was attacked by a detachment of Confederate cavalry and dr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM757_old-savannah-road_Statesboro-GA.html
The highway crossing here is the Old Savannah Road, one of the earliest vehicular routes west of the Ogeechee River. It led from Savannah to the Rock Landing on the Oconee, to the south of the present Milledgeville. there it connected with the mai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM708_union-meeting-house_Statesboro-GA.html
Three miles east of this point, on the old River Road, is located Union Meeting House (Methodist), the oldest church in Bulloch county, and one of the oldest churches in Georgia remaining continuously active since its organization. Title was acqui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WA_statesboro-confederate-monument_Statesboro-GA.html
South Face ComradesIn Memory Of The Confederate Soldier1861 - 1865
West Face" How many a gloriousname for us,How many a story offame for us They left ! Would itnot be a blame for us if their memories partfrom our land and heart, and a wrong…