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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV8_roosevelt-campobello-park_Welshpool-NB.html
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson andMrs. Lester B. PearsonTogether opened theRoosevelt Campobello Parkon the twenthieth day of August 1964Lyndon Baines JohnsonPresident of the United States of AmericaandLester Bowles PearsonPrime Minister of CanadaTogether …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV7_alfred-holt-colquitt_Macon-GA.html
Governor of Georgia (1877-1882), U.S. Congressman (1853-1855), U.S. Senator (1883-1894), Major U.S. Army in the Mexican War, Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army, Alfred Holt Colquitt is buried here. Born in Walton County, Georgia, April 20, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV2_general-edward-dorr-tracy-jr_Macon-GA.html
Edward D. Tracy, Jr., was born in Macon, Georgia, on Nov. 5, 1833. His father served as Macon's second Mayor (1826-1828), a Judge of Superior Court, and hosted General Lafayette during his visit to Macon in 1825. The younger Tracy graduated from t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGUU_wilsons-raid-to-macon_Macon-GA.html
On March 22, 1865, the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi [US], Bvt. Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson, USA, left the Tennessee River near Florence, Ala., and marched south to Selma to destroy its arsenals and foundries. On April 10th, af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOK_john-basil-lamar_Macon-GA.html
Col. John Basil Lamer, aide-de-camp of General Howell Cobb, his brother-in-law and close friend, was mortally wounded on September 14, 1862 while vainly trying to rally Cobb's Brigade at Crampton's Gap, Maryland. After temporary burial in Charles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFGV_judge-asa-holt-house_Macon-GA.html
This house, built in 1853 by Judge Asa Holt, was struck by a cannon ball from Gen. Stoneman guns in East Macon during the Battle of Dunlap Hill. July 30, 1864, when the Union army tried unsuccessfully to take Macon. The ball, now in the po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF8S_the-first-baptist-church-of-christ_Macon-GA.html
This church was founded in 1826 as the city's first Baptist congregation. It was first located at the site of the present Bibb County Courthouse. The fourth and final move, to this site, occurred in 1883 and the current building was dedicated in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMENZ_st-josephs-catholic-church_Macon-GA.html
The history of Roman Catholicism in Macon dates to a visit in 1829 by Bishop John England of the Diocese of Charleston and the subsequent migration of Irish Catholic families in the 1830s. In 1841 Macon's Catholics received their first pastor, Fat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZO_birthplace-of-sidney-lanier_Macon-GA.html
Sidney Lanier, poet, linguist, musician, mathematician & lawyer, was born in this cottage, Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe Univ. then at Milledgeville, served as a private in the Confederate Army and was captured while commanding a bloc…