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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGQH_the-stoneman-raid_Gray-GA.html
In July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman's army [US] closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications "too strong to assault and too extensive to invest," he sought to force its fall by sending Maj. Gen. George Stoneman, with three cavalry brigades …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGQE_shermans-right-wing_Gray-GA.html
On the night of Nov. 19, 1864, Kilpatrick's cavalry division [US], which was covering the advance of the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of General Sherman's army on its destructive March to the Sea, camped at Clinton. At noon on the 20th, the in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGQ6_griswoldville_Macon-GA.html
This town is named for Samuel Griswold who moved his iron foundries and cotton gin factories here from Clinton to be on the railroad. A disastrous unrecorded battle was fought here in 1864 when a force of old men and youths under Gen. Phillips, Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGQ3_lafayette_Gray-GA.html
On March 25, 1825 LaFayette Paused Here andMade an Address
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGLI_gen-iversons-birthplace_Gray-GA.html
Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, C.S.A., son of Senator Alfred Iverson, also a Brig. Gen., and Caroline Goode Holt, was born here Feb. 14, 1829. He served with the U. S. Cavalry in the Mexican War and Mormon campaign and fought the Comanches and Kiowas.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGG3_planters-academy_Gray-GA.html
The Farmer's Academy (later Planter's Academy) was incorporated Dec. 19, 1822 by Act of Legislature signed by Gov. John Clark. Trustees included Bailey Bell, Adam Carson, Kinchen P. Thweatt, James Lockett, Cyrus Cotton, Samuel Barron and William C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGFZ_blountsville_Haddock-GA.html
On Nov. 18, 1864, Blair's 17th Corps of the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman's army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (12 mi. NW of Hillsboro) and marched via Monti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGFX_blountsville_Haddock-GA.html
Near here was Blountsville, an early stagecoach station and post office until after the War Between the States. It suffered severely during the War and the town disappeared. The home of many prominent families, Blountsville was the site of Blounts…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MW_sunshine-church-ii_Hillsboro-GA.html
Sunshine Church II, built in 1880 and dedicated in 1883 by Rev. Sam Jones, replaced old Sunshine Church, two miles south of here, which General Sherman's troops burned in 1864. A wounded northern prisoner, B.F. Morris, Shelby, Ohio, cared for by t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37M_clinton-methodist-church_Gray-GA.html
This is the first Methodist church and the second church established in Jones County. Land was appropriated in 1810 and July 14, 1821 a deed to the Clinton Methodists was made effective. The church was "a frame house of good dimensions with substa…