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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXF8_geographic-center-of-georgia_Dry-Branch-GA.html
One and one tenth mile south-southeast from this marker is the geographic center of the state. The center is defined as the balance point of a plane or thin sheet of a uniform thickness in the shape of the area.
The central point is one-quarte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPW5_marion_Dry-Branch-GA.html
Marion, incorporated in 1816, was the first county seat of Twiggs County. Named for General Francis Marion, the Revolutionary "Swamp Fox", it was a trading center and metropolis in ante bellum days. Its decline began when residents refused to acce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8C3_rev-vincent-a-tharp-home-1809_Dry-Branch-GA.html
This historic house, built for Rev. V. A. Tharp by his sons, John and Charnick, with slave labor in 1809, is the oldest known house in Twiggs County, then Wilkinson. The Tharp family, who occupied this house-in-the-wilderness in 1811, helped to su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Y2_stone-creek-baptist-church-1808_Dry-Branch-GA.html
Constituted September 3, 1808, this Church was first located two miles from here on a rocky hill overlooking Stone Creek, a tributary of the Ocmulgee. In 1842 the meetings were moved to an Academy at this site and in 1850 the members and community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7P6_arthur-fort-1750-1833_Dry-Branch-GA.html
Arthur Fort, Sr., a representative of Wilkinson County, introduced the Bill in the Georgia Legislature to carve a new county out of Wilkinson County territory which became an Act on December 14, 1809, thus Twiggs County was created. After the divi…