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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y82_skirmish-at-ivanhoe-plantation_Waynesboro-GA.html
This land is part of the former Ivanhoe Plantation property of the Whitehead family. The plantations home was located near the northeast corner of the Quaker road and the Walker Bridge road (Story Mill Road). A diary kept by 26-year-old Catharine …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y81_ivanhoe-plantation_Waynesboro-GA.html
Ivanhoe Plantation was established in 1765 by a Crown Grant to Thomas Whitehead from King George III of England. The plantation is located 3 or 4 miles east of Waynesboro, Georgia and 15 miles along Brier Creek going down stream. The grant include…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y7J_the-j-d-roberts-home_Waynesboro-GA.html
Built about 1858 in the Georgian Cottage style as a home for D Roberts, the house was designed by noted architect John Trowbridge. Subsequent occupants have included a doctor's office, millinery shop and county museum. In late 1864 the house witne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IOL_burke-county-veterans-memorial_Waynesboro-GA.html
Side 1:
For those who fought for it
Freedom has a taste the protected
will never know
The people of Burke County
dedicate this memorial to
the men who died in Vietnam.
John A. Bennett · Jackson E. Cox · Theus E. DeLaig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14O0_bellevue-plantation_Waynesboro-GA.html
Dating from a royal grant by King George III to Samuel Eastlake in 1767, Belleview Plantation has been owned continuously by the Carswell family since 1835. The year in which the house was built is not known but it is believed to have been erected…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14NH_to-honor-george-washington_Waynesboro-GA.html
The game is yet in our own hands; to play it well is all we have to do - nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people.
George Washington
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQY1_first-presbyterian-church_Waynesboro-GA.html
Scotch Presbyterians of St. George`s Parish, now Burke County, by 1760 had organized churches at Brier Creek, Old Church (formerly Episcopalian) and Walnut Branch. In 1771 Rev. Josiah Lewis became the first permanent pastor, sent by the Synod of N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8HP_shell-bluff_Waynesboro-GA.html
Shell Bluff on the Savannah River 15 miles northeast has been famous since Indian days because of its outcrops of fossil shells including those of giantoysters. These lived in the Eocene sea that covered this part of Georgia some 50 million years …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8HG_site-of-planters-electric-membership-corporation-organizational-meeting_Waynesboro-GA.html
On August 5, 1936, an organizational meeting of the Planters Electric Membership Corporation was held in the Bellevue Plantation commissary building. Those present and elected to become officers were Porter W.Carswell, President; Frank M. Cates, V…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8HB_the-14th-corps-at-lumpkins-station_Waynesboro-GA.html
On Dec. 3, 1864, after a hard march across Buckhead, Rocky Beaver Dam and Rosemary creeks from camps N. of Birdsville and W. of Buckhead Church, the 14th Corps [US], Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, [US] (less Baird's division) camped at Lumpkin's statio…