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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUYQ_liberty-hall_Crawfordville-GA.html
Liberty Hall Has been designated a National historic Landmark This site possesses National significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America 1983 National Park Service United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLM1_taliaferro-county-world-wars-memorial_Crawfordville-GA.html
In sacred memory of the menof Taliaferro County whomade the supreme sacrifice
World War IRoy Dozier
World War IIL.A. CasonHenry C. SimonsRoger W. GunnCharles RobertsOn fames eternal camping ground, their silent tents are spread and glory gua…
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Liberty HallHome of Alexander Hamilton Stephens1845-1883Property Deeded by Executors to Stephens Monumental Association June 4, 1885, to State of Georgia, December 31, 1932.Building Dedicated July 18, 1935.W.P.A. 1936 U.D.C.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOQ_raytown-methodist-church_Crawfordville-GA.html
This church is located in that part of the original Wilkes Circuit of 1786, "the cradle of Georgia Methodism," from which Bishop Francis Asbury formed the Little River Circuit at the Camden, S. C. Conference in January 1802. The Raytown Methodists…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOO_robert-grier-astronomer_Crawfordville-GA.html
On this land, in the plantation home of his father, Aaron Grier, Sr., Revolutionary soldier, Robert Grier, founder of the nationally famous "Grier's Almanac," was born in 1782. The remarkable astronomical calculations which led to the publishing o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOM_rays-place-now-raytown_Crawfordville-GA.html
Ray's Place, oldest community in Taliaferro County, was, in the late 1790's and early 1800's, a recreation center on Little River for the "livelier social set" of Washington. It was named for a Ray family from New York who lived in Washington for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGJI_grave-of-brig-gen-aaron-w-grier_Crawfordville-GA.html
About 3/4 miles from here, in the Grier family cemetery, is the marked grave of Gen. Aaron Grier, born near here Dec. 2, 1794. When quite young, with Gen. Floyd, he fought the Creek Indians, distinguishing himself at the Battles of Autossee and Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGJB_south-liberty-presbyterian-church_Crawfordville-GA.html
In 1820, several members of Liberty Church, Wilkes County, petitioned to form a new church, South Liberty, because of "distance, bad roads, high water in winter." A log church was built in 1828 about 4 miles east of Sharon on land given by Joshua …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGJA_the-church-of-the-purification-locust-grove-academy_Crawfordville-GA.html
In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from Maryland settled near Locust Grove. They established the first Roman Catholic Church in Georgia and erected a log church in 1792. A priest, Father John LeMoin, was sent to it from Baltimore…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIG_site-of-chivers-plantation-and-store_Crawfordville-GA.html
At this crossroads stood the store and drug shop of Col. Robert Chivers, father of Georgia's "lost poet," Dr. Thomas Holley Chivers. Born at his father's plantation home nearby in 1809, Dr. Chivers graduated in medicine at Transylvania Univ. in 18…