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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224F_dr-elizur-and-esther-butler-missionaries-to-the-cherokee-indians_Rome-GA.html
Buried in the grave sixty feet south of this point is Esther Post Butler. Born in Connecticut on September 15, 1795, Post married Dr. Elizur Butler, physician and minister, in October 1820. The Butlers were sent by the American Board of Commission…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1109_general-thomas-edwin-greenfield-ransom-1834-1864_Rome-GA.html
Thomas E.G. Ransom enlisted as captain of Company E, 11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1861. Wounded four times, he won honors at Ft.Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Red River. Rising steadily through the ranks, Ransom lead 17th Corps, Army of T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW9Y_georgia-school-for-the-deaf_Cave-Spring-GA.html
In 1833, a deaf man, John Jacobus Flournoy, of Jackson County, great grandson of Jacob Flournoy, a French Huguenot, urging education for the deaf, interested Governor Wilson Lumpkin and the Georgia Legislature in the educational movement. At first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYL_berry-college_Rome-GA.html
Starting with a Sunday School in a log cabin one mile south of here, Martha Berry founded a boarding school for rural boys in 1902 on 83 acres of land, adding a school for girls in 1909. From this humble beginning, Berry College grew and, during M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVKG_medora-field-perkerson_Lindale-GA.html
Medora Field (1892-1960) was born nearby on the site of the present Lindale Baptist Church. In her early twenties she became a member of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine staff, and later was married to Angus Perkerson, its editor. For man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQD3_ellen-louise-axson-wilson_Rome-GA.html
Born in Savannah, Georgia, May 15, 1860Moved to Rome, Georgia, March 1866Graduated from Rome Female College, 1876Attended New York Art Students League, 1884-1885 Her father, The Rev. Mr. Samuel Edward Axson was pastor of Rome's First Presbyteri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZP_site-of-mountain-school_Armuchee-GA.html
Everett Springs Seminary, antecedent of the famous Martha Berry Schools, was chartered in 1889 in Floyd County. The school, which was in existence until 1908, was the first mountain school in Georgia which had boarding facilities for its students.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYY_original-cabin_Rome-GA.html
This cabin, birthplace of The Berry Schools, (now Berry College and Berry Academy) was built as a playhouse for Martha Berry and her brothers and sisters shortly after the Civil War. Here, in the late 1800's, three small boys from Lavendar Mountai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYX_martha-berrys-birthplace_Rome-GA.html
Martha Berry, founder of the Berry Schools, was born and lived here at "Oak Hill." Daughter of Capt. Tom Berry, wealthy plantation owner, she devoted her life to providing educational opportunities for the children of her less fortunate neighbors …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKLZ_frenchs-div-at-rome_Rome-GA.html
May 16, 1864. Maj. Gen. S.G. French, in person, reached Rome from Ala., enroute with his div. (Polk's A.C.), to join Johnston's army [CS] at Cassville. Sears' brigade was sent to Kingston that night. May 17. Ector's, resisting Davis' approach o…
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