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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWK0_fort-gaines_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
One of several forts on Georgia's western frontier for the protection of white settlers, Fort Gaines was established in 1816 by order of Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, commander of a large district, who used this as his headquarters. Containing two blockh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWI1_the-1836-fort_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
In May of 1836 the 88th Regiment of the Georgia Militia built a small fort in anticipation of an attack by the Creek Indians. The Steamer Georgian had arrived crowded with women and children fleeing from the Indian uprising at Roanoke upriver. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDJ_the-old-lattice-bridge_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
Side 1:The second covered bridge across the Chattahoochee River, connecting Clay County, Georgia and Henry County. Alabama was constructed between 1867-69. Bonner and Walden, a New York construction company, were the original contractors but the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW77_site-of-fort-gaines-female-college_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
In 1857, the Legislature authorized a lottery to complete this college, chartered in 1838 as Fort Gaines Female Institute. It was finished in 1859. Sereno Taylor was the first principal, followed by John W. Grant. The large college building was us…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW75_old-pioneer-cemetery_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
This was the first established cemetery of Fort Gaines. The earliest death date on a stone marker is 1830. The tombs of Georgia Militia General John Dill and his family are found in an enclosed lot. Reverend John E. Brown, second president of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6D_oakland-high-school_Bluffton-GA.html
Founded in the 1880's Oakland High School's name was derived from oak trees which grew in abundance at this location when the school building was constructed. The school originally had 10 grades. Mrs. Arlene Newton Richardson taught here from 1908…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6B_clay-county-courthouse_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
Clay County Courthouse is the oldest courthouse in the Pataula Judicial Circuit and one of the oldest in South Georgia. Construction began in 1871 and it was completed in 1873 as shown by Grand Jury Presentments recorded in Minute Book B pages 195…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6A_clay-county_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
This County created by Act of the Legislature Feb. 16, 1854, is named for Henry Clay, famous statesman who died in 1852. Near fort Gaines, the County Site, stood the actual Fort built in 1816 for defense in the Creek Indian Wars and named for Gen.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVZT_gen-edmund-pendleton-gaines_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
The son of James Gaines, Revolutionary soldier and relative of five Presidents, General Gaines (1777-1849) was born in Virginia. From 1801 to 1804 he built the military highway from Nashville, Tenn., to Natchez, Miss. He made the arrest of Aaron B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVSD_oketeyeconne-chattahoochee-theater_Fort-Gaines-GA.html
OketeyeconneOketeyeconne, or Okitiyakani, was a Hitchiti-speaking Lower Creek town located near here on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River south of Sandy Creek during the late frontier period. Described in 1799 by Benjamin Hawkins, ". . . th…