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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21D4_brooklet-georgia_Statesboro-GA.html
Brooklet, known for its avenue of oak trees, took shape at the end of the 19th century on property owned by A.J. Lee. Optimistic citizens built a new town beside the recently completed Savannah & Statesboro Railroad. Dr. H.K. Thayer, an early resi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21CE_john-abbot-1751-1840_Brooklet-GA.html
John Abbot of Georgia
1751-1840
Talented artist and searching naturalist of birds and insects.
As a tribute to him and his work may you who stand here find pleasure in the natural beauty of Georgia.
John Abbot lies buried in this woodla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B7_statesboro-high-school_Statesboro-GA.html
In 1890 citizens organized and built the city's first school, the Statesboro Academy, at the corner of North Main and Church Streets. For ten years it served the needs of the community. In 1901 a growing city dedicated a new and larger school at t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B6_eastside-cemetery_Statesboro-GA.html
Eastside Cemetery was established on this site in 1889 in response to citizens' requests for a central location for the burial of the dead. Early cemeteries, known is burying grounds, dotted fields of early Bulloch County family farms. Majestic ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219M_willow-hill-school-and-community_Portal-GA.html
In 1874, nine years after the Civil War ended, a group of former slaves of the Riggs, Donaldson, Parrish, and Hall families founded the Willow Hill School to serve the area's black children. Georgia Ann Riggs, age 15 and a former slave, was the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219L_willow-hill-elementary-school-for-negroes_Portal-GA.html
Willow Hill School was established in 1874 during Reconstruction as one of the first schools for African Americans in Bulloch County. It was privately supported until being sold to the local Board of Education in 1920. In 1954 the county built a n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2181_nevils-station-shearwood-railroad_Nevils-GA.html
This is the site of the Nevils railroad station. The paved road from Denmark to Nevils is the original bed of The Shearwood Railroad that existed from 1912 until 1937. John N. Shearhouse of Brooklet and George Brinson of Stillmore owned Shearwood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217W_old-portal_Portal-GA.html
The original Portal was located 2 miles north of the current site on Old Portal Road. It got its name in 1894, when the U.S. Postal Service approved a post office for Portal. The E. E. Foy Company, of Effingham County, built a mercantile store tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TQ_upper-lotts-creek-primitive-baptist-church-and-cemetery_Statesboro-GA.html
Organized circa 1829, the church was originally located at the home of Absolom Parrish and called Parrish Meeting House. Following a fire of the log structure on the Parrish farm, the congregation built a second log structure one and one-half mile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20SI_1790-union-meeting-house_Statesboro-GA.html
In 1790, John Crawford and Phillip Mathews, Burke Circuit preachers, organized a Methodist Society in the home of Joshua Hodges, Sr. In 1791, Union Meeting House became a frequent entry in Circuit records. In 1794, Union Trustees obtained from Scr…