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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCA4_sardis-baptist-church_Sardis-GA.html
On Sept. 28, 1803, a group of men living in Burke County near Beech Branch Meeting House, "found to be in the true Baptist faith", by a presbytery of Rev. Henry Hand and Rev. John Ross, were constituted into one Body as a Baptist Church. A church …
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8H8_botsford-church-1773_Waynesboro-GA.html
Botsford Church, Constituted in 1773 by the Rev. Edmund Botsford, was the second Baptist church in Georgia. Originally located 25 miles below Augusta, known as the New Savannah Church, it was moved about 10 miles to this place after the Revolution…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM82L_original-site-sardis-baptist-church_Sardis-GA.html
Erected 1810Rebuilt 1847Dismantled 1940 and material used in erecting pastorium in Sardis.
Originally Beech Branch Meeting House constituted in 1803.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50K_old-quaker-road_Waynesboro-GA.html
The highway bearing left is the Old Quaker road, on of Georgia's earliest vehicular highways. It was opened about 1769 to provide a direct way from Savannah to a Quaker settlement centering around Wrightsboro in today's upper McDuffie County.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YY_shermans-left-wing_Sardis-GA.html
On Dec. 4, 1864, Kilpatrick`s cavalry division (USA) of Gen. Sherman`s army, supported by two brigades of Baird`s infantry division of the 14th Corps, drove units of Wheeler`s cavalry corps (CSA) out of Waynesboro and across Brier Creek in order t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XN_the-cavalry-actions-at-waynesboro_Waynesboro-GA.html
Late on Nov. 26, 1864, elements of the 3rd Cavalry Division (USA), Brig. Gen. J.L. Kilpatrick, USA, of Gen. Sherman`s army, reached the railroad bridge north of Waynesboro and partially burned it before being driven off by troops of the Cavalry Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XM_colonels-twiggs-and-few_Waynesboro-GA.html
In Honor Of The Men Under CommandOf Colonel Twiggs And Colonel FewWho Victoriously Defended TheCause Of The American RevolutionAt The Battle Of Burke JailIn 1779 Erected by the Georgia Society and the Edmund Burke Chapter Daughters Of The American…