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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN1O_montrose_Augusta-GA.html
Col. Jones was mayor of Savannah in 1860. In 1861 he joined the Chatham Artillery and served, later, as Chief of Artillery for the Military District of Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina. After the war, he practiced law in N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMW1_the-medical-college-of-georgia_Augusta-GA.html
The Medical College of Georgia, oldest school of medicine in Georgia, was incorporated in 1828 as the Medical Academy of Georgia. Of the 23 original board of Trustees, 5 were from the City of Augusta and three of these were elected as the initial …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMV0_the-augusta-canal_Augusta-GA.html
The tall chimney in front of the Sibley Millis the only surviving structure built by theConfederacy, and stands as a memorial to war dead. Augusta and its canal played a prominent role inthe War between the States as the site of theConfederate Po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMSW_the-first-academy-of-richmond-county_Augusta-GA.html
One block east on Bay Street was opened as a boys' classicial school on April 12, 1785. Here President George Washington attended examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta was the capital, the Federal …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPQ_dennis-cahill_Augusta-GA.html
By deed of self-sacrifice, such as all humanity claims and counts amoung its jewels, hallowed this spot and rendered his name worthy of such Lasting Memory as these rugged stones and this simple tablet can secure. For he gave his life in a vain a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMN9_the-augusta-canal_Augusta-GA.html
The Augusta Canal, begun in 1845 and comleted in 1847, provided power for one of the first cotton textile manufacturing plants in the South and was the beginning of the development of Augusta as a great textile manufacturing center.The canal was b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJL_signal-corps-aviation-school_Augusta-GA.html
On the Barnes farm, south and east of this marker, one of the first military aviation training centers in the U.S. was established in 1911. After successful test flights of the second Wright airplane in 1909, the Wright brothers agreed to the esta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMG4_home-of-john-forsyth_Augusta-GA.html
This house was part of the home of John Forsyth located on this property. As U.S. Minister to Spain, in 1819 Forsyth negotiated the treaty by which Florida was acquired by the United States.He was Congressman from Georgia, 1813- 1818; 1823- 1827; …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMBZ_confederate-powder-works_Augusta-GA.html
Obelisk chimney one-third mile (from here) marks center of Confederate Powder Works which extended two miles along the river and was the principal powder factory in the South during the War. It supplied Confederate armies with abundant gunpowder o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9D_meadow-garden_Augusta-GA.html
400 feet west of here is Meadow Garden, home of George Walton, Revolutionary Patriot and soldier, Governor, Congressman, Senator, Jurist. With Button Gwinnett and Lyman Hall, he signed the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, for the State o…