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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OC_fort-morris_Midway-GA.html
Erected at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, to guard the Port of Sunbury and St. John`s Parish. Fort Morris was an enclosed earthwork in the shape of an irregular quadrangle. Surrounded by a parapet and moat. It contained a parade of about …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O9_lambert-plantation_Riceboro-GA.html
Just east of here was the 863 acre plantation of John Lambert which he purchased in 1784.
John Lambert was born in south Carolina in 1716 and died at his plantation here in December 1786. He is buried in the Midway Cemetery. He never married an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O6_the-rev-mr-john-osgood_Midway-GA.html
This is the grave of Rev. Mr. John Osgood, who came to Midway with the first settlers in 1754 from Dorchester, S.C., and served them faithfully as their minister and friend until his final sermon, May 5, 1773. born in Dorchester, one of their own …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O5_savannah-new-inverness-road_Midway-GA.html
This highway follows an old colonial road constructed in 1736 as a measure of defense against the Spanish and Spanish Indians by connecting the fighting Scotch Highlanders at New Inverness (now Darien) with Savannah. It was surveyed and cleared by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O4_old-sunbury-road_Midway-GA.html
The highway entering here is the Sunbury Road which once served as an arterial vehicular route from the interior of Georgia to the town of Sunbury, a former leading port and educational center, located 11 miles to the eastward on the Midway River.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O3_nathan-brownson_Midway-GA.html
Georgia Colonial governor, trustee of the proposed University of Georgia, physician, Nathan Brownson became governor of Georgia in 1781, serving until Jan. 1782. Prior to this time Brownson served as a member of the Provencial Congress which met i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O2_midway-museum_Midway-GA.html
Established by South Carolina Calvinists of English and Scottish extraction in 1752, the small settlement of Midway became `the cradle of the Revolutionary spirit in Georgia`. Two of Georgia`s three signers of the Declaration of Independence, Lyma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O1_dorchester-village_Midway-GA.html
The village of Dorchester was settled in 1843, by families from Midway and Sunbury. It was named for the Dorchesters in England, Massachusetts and South Carolina, ancestral homes of the Midway people.
Among the early settlers of the village wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5NV_dorchester-presbyterian-church_Midway-GA.html
This church, built in 1854 on a lot of four acres donated by B.A. Busbee, was first used for summer services only. On January 6, 1871, it was admitted into the Savannah Presbytery as an organized church of 14 members. The Rev. J. W. Montgomery was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5K1_halls-knoll_Midway-GA.html
Home-site of Dr. Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the First Continental Congress, Governor of Georgia, member of Midway Congregational church near here. Graduate of Yale University, (1747). Born in Wallingford, Conn…