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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJK_brooks-county-veterans-monument-a-war-memorial_Quitman-GA.html
Brooks County Veterans
They All Gave
Some Gave All
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJJ_our-confederate-dead-a-war-memorial_Quitman-GA.html
Our Confederate Dead
Erected
By The Ladies
Memorial Association
1878
( back )
Brothers
Rest In Peace.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJI_quitman-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Quitman-GA.html
To Those Who Gave Much. To Those Who Gave All
Quitman and Brooks County Dedicates This Memorial
November 11, 1921
Erected by Quitman Chapter
United Daughters of The Confederacy
1st Lt. Wilbur Oglesby
Privates
Arthur Culpepper · …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYRH_bethel-primitive-baptist-church_Pavo-GA.html
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be organized in the area of old Lowndes County, was constituted September 2, 1826. Theorganizing Presbytery were: Elders Benjamin Manning. Matthew Albritton and Henry Melton, with Deaco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR0L_civil-war-slave-conspiracy_Quitman-GA.html
In August 1864, during the American Civil War, four men were executed in Brooks County, Georgia, for conspiring to plot a slave insurrection. The conspirators - led by a local white man, John Vickery, and three slaves named Nelson, George, and Sam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHX6_west-end-cemetery_Quitman-GA.html
In this cemetery, during the last year of the War Between the States, a number of Confederate soldiers, 17 of them unknown, were buried. Memorial services for these soldiers were held as early as 1869. In 1871, on Memorial Day, April 26, a group o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHX5_brooks-county_Quitman-GA.html
This county created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 11, 1858, is named for Preston Smith Brooks, zealous defender of States Rights. Born in S.C. Aug. 6, 1819, Brooks served in the Mexican War & in Congress. He died June 27, 1857. The first County O…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9L1_old-coffee-road_Tinicum-Township-GA.html
The Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this area, crossed here, leading southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today Lax,Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida Line. The thoroughfare was opened by directio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9KZ_mount-zion-camp-ground_Morven-GA.html
The first Camp Meeting was held on this site in 1828 by a "few scattered Methodists" before any Methodist Church in the area was organized. William Hendry, William Blair and Hamilton W. Sharpe, as a committee, selected the site. Rev. Adam Wyrick w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9KR_old-coffee-road_Morven-GA.html
The Old Coffee Road, first vehicular and postal route of this area, passed here running southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick, and Thomasville to the Florida line above Tallahassee. The thoroughfare was ope…