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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15MY_to-the-women-of-griffin-and-spalding-county_Griffin-GA.html
To The Women of Griffin and Spalding CountyWho gave their services during the War Between the States from '61 to ?65 James S. Boynton Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy have placed this boulder No act of injustice, no failure of duty, …
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Spalding CountyDedicates this memorial as a perpetual evidence of her gratitude for the brave, loyal and patriotic service rendered byHer Sons and Daughtersin1917 - The World War - 1918 (A separate plaque at the base of the monument lists those…
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FrontIn Memoriam Our Confederate Dead Right Side"Hon'd sleep the brave who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blest! When spring with dewy fingers cold, returns to deck their hallow'd mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod. Their fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IB_rotary-international_Griffin-GA.html
Founded in Chicago by Paul P. Harris, Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
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Spalding County was created by Act of Dec. 20, 1851 from Fayette, Henry and Pike Counties. It was named for Thomas Spalding (1774-1851), native of Frederica. One of the earliest cotton and sugar cane planters in Georgia, he was a legislator, state…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GG_old-mcintosh-road_Griffin-GA.html
This tablet marks the Old McIntosh Road Part of the Three Notch Trail blazed by the Creek Indian Chief William McIntosh Slain in 1825, because of his friendship for the White Man
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII1_the-city-of-griffin_Griffin-GA.html
The first city government of Griffin, founded in 1840 by General Lewis Lawrence Griffin, was authorized in 1843 when the General Assembly of Georgia granted it a charter. The charter was accepted locally in 1844 and the first municipal government …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII0_lewis-lawrence-griffin_Griffin-GA.html
Born in South Carolina, October 3, 1794, Lewis Lawrence Griffin moved to Georgia with his widowed mother in the early 1800's. He fought in the Georgia Militia under General Daniel Newnan in Florida and, later, under Generals John Floyd and Thomas …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIFS_confederate-cemetery_Griffin-GA.html
Stonewall Cemetery is located on part of a plot given as a burial site by Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin when he founded Griffin in 1840. Several hundred Confederate and one Union soldier, casualties of the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro, from the …
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At Bear Creek Station (Hampton), on Sept. 4, 1864, Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis famous "Orphan Brigade" (2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Kentucky Infantry) was relieved from assignment to Bate's division, Hardee's corps. Army of Tennessee [CS], in which …
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