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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQO_lagrange-college-1831_LaGrange-GA.html
LaGrange College is the oldest non-tax supported institution of higher education in Georgia. It was chartered in 1831 as LaGrange Female Academy. The charter has been changed three times as the trustees altered the name to LaGrange Female Institut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQ8_bellevue_LaGrange-GA.html
Bellevue, home of United States Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-1882), was built in 1854-55 and typifies the Greek Revival architecture popular in the Old South. Jefferson Davis and other Confederate celebrities were frequent guests here. At th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOOP_battle-of-west-point_West-Point-GA.html
800 yds. Northwest is the site of Fort Tyler ~ last Confederate fort to fall in the War Between the States. A force of Union cavalry captured Fort Tyler after an 8 hour siege.
19 Confederate engines and 340 [CS] railroad cars loaded with commi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOKL_fort-tyler-cemetery_West-Point-GA.html
One hundred feet east in brick walled enclosure are buried 76 brave men, Confederate and Federal, Killed or died of wounds in the siege of Fort Tyler.
This engagement occurred April 16,1865, a whole week after the surrender of General Lee [CS]…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOKK_gen-robert-c-tyler-c-s-a_West-Point-GA.html
Colonel of the 15th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (June 1861). Brigadier General (February 1864), he fought with gallantry in the Battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. In these engagem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMODF_east-depot-high-school_LaGrange-GA.html
East Depot High School, constructed in 1923, began in 1866 as LaGrange Academy. East Depot provided education for African-Americans in LaGrange. The school produced many outstanding alumni with careers in education, business, law, medicine, religi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOBR_daughters-of-the-confederacy_West-Point-GA.html
At West Point Georgiathe term "Daughters of the Confederacy"was used here on April 30, 1886,by General John B. Gordon,to introduce Winnie Davis.The title became the nameof thepresent patriotic organization.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOAO_the-nancy-harts_LaGrange-GA.html
In 1863, a company of women soldiers was formed in LaGrange by Mrs. J. Brown Morgan. They called themselves the "Nancy Harts" in honor of Georgia's Revolutionary War heroine. Organized to defend LaGrange in the absence of its men, the Nancy Harts …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO69_famous-indian-path_LaGrange-GA.html
The Oakfuskee Trail, main branch of the noted Upper Creek Trading Path from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Central Alabama, passed this site, running east and west. Beginning at present Augusta, the route led this way via Warrenton, Ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO65_noted-indian-trail_LaGrange-GA.html
The road running east towards Big Spring is a remnant of the Oakfuskee Trail, main branch of the noted Upper Creek Trading Path from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Central Alabama.
Beginning at present Augusta, Georgia the route le…