Historical Marker Series

Georgia: Georgia Historical Society/Commission

Page 181 of 190 — Showing results 1801 to 1810 of 1892
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11NJ_seminole-county_Donalsonville-GA.html
This County, created by Act of the Legislature July 8, 1920, is named for the Seminole Indians. Members of the Creek Confederacy, the Seminoles (meaning "separatist") left the main body in Georgia and settled in Florida. After two bloody wars in 1817-?18 an…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11NK_the-tonge-factory_Bainbridge-GA.html
The Tonge Factory, owned by S. D. Tonge, stood on the South bank of the Flint river one-fourth mile West of here. The cloth produced by this plant was used by the women of Bainbridge to make uniforms for the Confederate soldiers of Decatur county. The facto…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11O4_camp-recovery_Bainbridge-GA.html
On the east side of Flint River, twenty-one miles southwest is the site of Camp Recovery, established during the First Seminole Indian War as a hospital base to which the sick soldiers from Fort Scott were sent to recover. A Federal Monument on the site mar…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11US_el-camino-real_Bainbridge-GA.html
In this vicinity was the Indian trail which, during the period of Spanish occupation, became known as El Camino Real or King's Highway. This road, connecting St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida, crossed the Flint River at the trading post of James Burges, …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11UT_de-soto-trail_Bainbridge-GA.html
In this neighborhood Hernando de Soto and his army discovered the inland waters of the Flint river ("the River of Capachequi") on Friday, March 5, 1540. Leaving the vicinity of the present Tallahassee, Florida, the Spaniards marched northwest, spent the fir…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11VT_bulloch-hall_Roswell-GA.html
Built in the early 1840's by Major James Stephen Bulloch. His second wife, married in 1832, was Martha Elliott. Their second daughter, Martha (Mittie) Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt married here in 1853. Their son Theodore Roosevelt was the 25th President o…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1233_piedmont-college_Demorest-GA.html
Piedmont College is an accredited, independent, coeducational, liberal arts college, open to all regardless of race, sex, or creed. Founded under auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the College was chartered September 6, 1897 by Habersham County as …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM124W_etowah-and-the-war_Cartersville-GA.html
The Confederacy sought iron and munitions eagerly, which quickly brought prosperity to Etowah. Patriotic key workers, though exempt from army duty, enlisted, and loss of their skill hampered production. Mark Cooper sold the works in 1862. In the 1863, th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM124X_mark-anthony-coopers-iron-works_Cartersville-GA.html
These ruins of an old iron furnace built by Moses Stroup are all that remain of Cooper's Iron Works, developed by Mark Anthony Cooper, pioneer industrialist, politician, and farmer. Cooper was born in 1800 near Powelton, Ga. Graduating from S.C. College …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM127J_kolomoki-mounds-state-park-4-mi_Blakely-GA.html
A large Indian mound complex built about A.D. 200-600 is the centerpiece of Kolomoki Mounds State Park. The largest mound is 325 feet long, 200 feet wide and 57 feet high. This ceremonial area was at the eastern end of a large cleared ceremonial area with t…
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