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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/HM16YC_oliff-rushing-durrence-house_Register-GA.html
Oliff, Rushing, Durrence House
c. 1872
Restored 1976 by Dr. C. D. and Mrs. Lois Durrence Sheley
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places, 1987U. S. Dept. of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10JR_old-river-road_Brooklet-GA.html
The highway crossing here is the Old River Road, one of the earliest white man's routes west of the Ogeechee. The State authorized the opening of this portion of the old thoroughfare in 1777. It followed the course of an Indian trail that led to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPUA_upper-black-creek-church_Brooklet-GA.html
(Side 1):Upper Black Creek met each month on the third Sunday and Saturday before from the time she was organized in 1802 until the Church elected to meet every Sunday in 1957. Conference was every month on those Saturdays, and Upper Black Creek r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPU8_upper-black-creek-primitive-baptist-church_Brooklet-GA.html
Upper Black Creek Primitive Baptist Church was constituted on August 15, 1802 in the home of John Albritton. The organizing presbytery consisted of Henry Cook, Isham Peacock, John Goldwire and Henry Holcombe. With a membership upward of 40 members…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFXB_john-abbot-1751-1839_Brooklet-GA.html
In the old McElveen Cemetery, one-third of a mile northeast of this marker, is the grave of John Abbot, pioneer naturalist of Georgia. Abbot was born in London June 1, 1751, and in early youth became devoted to the study and delineation of insects…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM96W_croatan-indian-community_Register-GA.html
In 1870 a group of Croatan Indians migrated from their homes in Robeson County North Carolina, following the turpentine industry to southeast Georgia. Eventually many of the Croatans became tenant farmers for the Adabelle Trading Company, growing …
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…