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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6O_site-of-first-washington-county-jail_Warthen-GA.html
Erected 1783, of logs
Aaron Burr incarcerated here 1807, en route to trial for treason
Placed by Governor Jared Irwin Chapter, D.A.R.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6L_warthen_Warthen-GA.html
Washington County, which once embraced all the territory from the Cherokee corner North, from the Ogeechee to the Oconee and the Liberty on the South, was surveyed in 1784. Soon the small settlement known as Warthen's Store was designated as the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5R_president-jefferson-davis_Warthen-GA.html
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America and party camped near here in a wooded area, when trying to reach Mobile, in his flight from Federal Soldiers. The party, on horseback, stopped at Warthen's Store to purchase food sup…