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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224F_dr-elizur-and-esther-butler-missionaries-to-the-cherokee-indians_Rome-GA.html
Buried in the grave sixty feet south of this point is Esther Post Butler. Born in Connecticut on September 15, 1795, Post married Dr. Elizur Butler, physician and minister, in October 1820. The Butlers were sent by the American Board of Commission…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1109_general-thomas-edwin-greenfield-ransom-1834-1864_Rome-GA.html
Thomas E.G. Ransom enlisted as captain of Company E, 11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1861. Wounded four times, he won honors at Ft.Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Red River. Rising steadily through the ranks, Ransom lead 17th Corps, Army of T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYL_berry-college_Rome-GA.html
Starting with a Sunday School in a log cabin one mile south of here, Martha Berry founded a boarding school for rural boys in 1902 on 83 acres of land, adding a school for girls in 1909. From this humble beginning, Berry College grew and, during M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYY_original-cabin_Rome-GA.html
This cabin, birthplace of The Berry Schools, (now Berry College and Berry Academy) was built as a playhouse for Martha Berry and her brothers and sisters shortly after the Civil War. Here, in the late 1800's, three small boys from Lavendar Mountai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYX_martha-berrys-birthplace_Rome-GA.html
Martha Berry, founder of the Berry Schools, was born and lived here at "Oak Hill." Daughter of Capt. Tom Berry, wealthy plantation owner, she devoted her life to providing educational opportunities for the children of her less fortunate neighbors …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKF6_farmers-bridge-armuchee-creek_Rome-GA.html
May 15, 1864. Monty's Brigade of Garrard's Cav. scouting toward Rome in advance of the infantry column, Davis' div. (14th A.C.) [US], encountered Brig. Gen. L.S. Ross' Texas brigade (Jackson's Cav. div.) [CS] at Farmer's Bridge.
Ross was driven…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7F7_sardis-presbyterian-church-cemetery_Rome-GA.html
The first residence of missionaries sent in 1821 to establish the Turnip Mountain Mission to the Cherokees was located on this site, just north of the Cemetery wall. The mission, later known as Haweis, was built two miles to the east. Sardis Presb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM62A_berry-schools-old-mill_Rome-GA.html
From the mill's construction in 1930 , students under the supervision of a miller used the Old Mill to produce corn meal and food stuffs for the Berry Schools. The Republic Mining and Manufacturing Company donated the iron hub, while students buil…