Georgia: Georgia Historical Society/Commission
Page 177 of 190 — Showing results 1761 to 1770 of 1892
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZVL_peach-county_Fort-Valley-GA.html
This County, created by Act of the Legislature July 18, 1924, is named for one of Georgia's leading crops, the Georgia Peach known throughout the nation and beyond. The famous Elberta Peach was developed in Georgia by Samuel B. Rumph and is grown widely in …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZVO_logans-blairs-camp-nancys-creek_Atlanta-GA.html
July 17, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., together with Logan's 15th & Blair's 17th (US), having left Roswell by Shallow Ford Rd. enroute to Decatur, diverged from the column at the road - fork 2.5 mi. N.W. & moved towards Old Cross Keys. Logan & Blair came this wa…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZVS_battle-of-brushy-creek_Sparks-GA.html
Near here, in July, 1836, a battalion of Georgia militia under command of Major Michael Young, defeated a band of Indians in the Battle of Brushy Creek. In pursuit of the Indians, who had been raiding the frontier as they fled into Florida, the soldiers cam…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZVT_old-coffee-road_Adel-GA.html
The Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this section, crossed here, running southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today's Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida line above Tallahassee. This thoroughfare was ope…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZWA_flint-river-farms-resettlement-project_Montezuma-GA.html
The Flint River Farms Resettlement Project was established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration in 1937. The Project was one of many similar community resettlement projects organized throughout the South during the New Deal, all…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZWL_vereen-bell-highway_Waycross-GA.html
This access road into the great Okefenokee Swamp was named by the Georgia Legislature (1946) in memory of VEREEN BELL, Lt. USNR, young Georgia patriot and writer, who by his novel "SWAMP WATER" gave to the world insights into this unique area, and who gave …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZXN_minnie-f-corbitt-memorial-museum_Pearson-GA.html
Here, about 1873, on Lot No. 1, S.J. Henderson built the first residence in Pearson, then the terminus of the Brunswick and Albany R. R. Successively the home of prominent families in early Pearson history, in 1905 it became the residence of Martin S. Corbi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZXQ_atkinson-court-house_Pearson-GA.html
Atkinson County was created by an act of the Georgia legislature in 1917, out of lands previously in Clinch and Coffee Counties.
The county was organized Jan. 1, 1918. The first officers were J.W. Roberts, Ordinary; Wiley M. Sumner, Clerk Superior Court…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZYK_blackshear-trail_Cordele-GA.html
Blackshear Trail, made by General David Blackshear during the War of 1812, was used by General Andrew Jackson when he led his troops from Fort Hawkins, now Macon, through Hartford, now Hawkinsville, to Fort Early in 1818. The section was roadless except for…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZYM_crisp-county_Cordele-GA.html
Crisp County was created by Act of Aug. 17, 1905 from Dooly County. It was named for Charles Frederick Crisp (1845-1896), Georgia lawyer, judge, Congressman, who was born in Sheffield, England, of actor parents touring the British Isles. Judge Crisp served …