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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28I_this-memorial-commemorates-the-act-of_Tybee-Island-GA.html
This Memorial Commemorates the act of Lieutenant Christopher Hussey Of the Montgomery Guards and Private John Latham of the Washington Volunteers, the first volunteer regiment of the State of Georgia. While under fire during the bombardment of Apr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27N_william-bartram-trail_Macon-GA.html
In 1775 William Bartram wrote of viewing "Old Okmulgee Fields" and remains of the power and grandeur of ancients of area.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM276_confederate-dead-and-hospitals_Forsyth-GA.html
Here sleep "Known but to God," 299 unknown Confederate soldiers and one known. Most of these men, veterans of many hard fought battles, died in the several Confederate hospitals located in this town. Here is also buried a gallant Confederate girl,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24F_indian-spring_Flovilla-GA.html
The wonderful healing powers of the waters of Indian Spring were known to the Indians before the pioneers blazed the trail of civilization in Georgia. Such were their belief and confidence in the medicinal virtues of the waters that they came with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM245_shermans-right-at-indian-springs_Flovilla-GA.html
On Nov. 17, 1864, the 15th Corps, leading the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman's army (US) on its March to the Sea. marched from McDonough to Jackson. Below Locust Grove (16 mi. NW), Woods' and Hazen's divisions turned right to avoid Jackson and camped …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21W_mcintosh-house_Flovilla-GA.html
Across the highway stands the inn built about 1823 by William McIntosh, half-breed chief of the Lower Creek Indians. Here on February 12, 1825, McIntosh and other chiefs signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs, giving up their last Georgia land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21L_creek-agency-old-agency_Roberta-GA.html
Here on the Flint River was the headquarters of the Agent for Indian Affairs South of Ohio until the area was acquired by Georgia in the Creek cession of Jan. 24, 1826. Here Benjamin Hawkins and David B. Mitchell, Agents, resided and in 1804 and 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K1_blood-mountain_Ellijay-GA.html
Blood Mountain, elevation 4458 ft. Chattahoochee National Forest. In Cherokee mythology the mountain was one of the homes of the Nunnehi or Immortals, the "People Who Live Anywhere," a race of Spirit People who lived in great townhouses in the hig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K0_springer-mountain_Ellijay-GA.html
AppalachianNational Scenic Trail
Springer Mountainelevation 3782'
Southern Terminus
Chattahoochee National Forest
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16N_battle-of-cherokee-ford_Elberton-GA.html
[Marker Front]:In honor of the brave militia men under Robert Anderson, including Capt. William Baskin, Jr., James Little, John Miller, Joseph Pickens and Lt. Thomas Shanklin, who fought a superior Tory force led by Col. Boyd at the mouth of Van[n…