Old Tavern Site
On this site, Lot 17, provided for, in 1826, in the Town Plan by Hermon Mercer, who laid out the town of Crawfordville, a tavern, inn or hotel has stood continuously. The original tavern, built...
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First Session Supreme Court of Georgia
At Talbotton on Jan. 26, 1846, the first meeting of the Supreme Court of Georgia was held in the dining hall of the old Clairborne Hotel which stood one block west of this marker. Judge...
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Zion Episcopal Church Erected 1848
The edifice has been spared modernization and is a perfect replica of a typical English rural parish church of the Tudor-Gothic period. The altar, communion rail, lectern-pulpit, and prayer...
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Old Belleview
Ante-bellum settlement on the Old Alabama Rd. between the Chattahoochee at Columbus and the Flint River at the Double Bridges. Columbus was seized by Federal Cav. under Gen. James H. Wilson, April...
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Confederate Gun Shop
Fifty yards from here, in a brick building, stood the gun shop of Henning Daniel Murden (1815-1903), who, during the War Between the States, made and supplied guns and molds to Confederate...
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Old Federal Road
The Federal Road across the Creek Indian County, western Georgia`s first vehicular way, passed here leading from Fort Hawkins (now Macon) to the Alabama River above Mobile. The trace,...
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Talbot County
Talbot County was created by Act of Dec. 14, 1827 from Muscogee County. It was named for Matthew Talbot (1767-1827), member of the legislature, member of the Convention that framed...
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The Church of the Purification Locust Grove Academy
In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from Maryland settled near Locust Grove. They established the first Roman Catholic Church in Georgia and erected a log church in 1792....
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Straus Home Site
Here stood the small frame house in which Lazarus Straus and his family lived when they came to Talbotton in 1854. Seeking a new home in America after leaving Bavaria, Straus visited...
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Straus Home Site
In 1854, Lazarus Strauss brought his wife. and four children to Talbotton to their first home in America. Here he established a store, the first in a series that led to Macy´s, one of the...
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Straus Home Site
After leaving Bavaria, Lazarus Straus dispensed him merchandise over several states searching for home for his family. In 1854, he, his wife, and four children settled in a comfortable house...
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George Washington Towns
George Washington Towns was born in Wilkes County Georgia May 4, 1801, and died in Macon Georgia, July 15, 1854. A lawyer and resident of Talbotton, Georgia, Towns served as state legislator,...
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Crawfordville Academy Alexander Stephens Institute
Crawfordville Academy Alexander Stephens Institute This school, one of the finest of the early Georgia Academies, was chartered by the Legislature, Dec. 26, 1826. First trustees were Archibald...
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1831 Talbotton United Methodist Church
As Methodism moved across Georgia, in 1830 Jesse Sinclair and Henry W. Hilliard were sent by the South Carolina Methodist Conference to the Flint River Mission of which Talbot Co. was a part....
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Birthplace of Alexander Hamilton Stephens
"Little Alec" , Vice-President of the Confederacy was born nearby in a log cabin Feb. 11, 1812, son of Andrew B. & Margaret Grier Stephens, a poor farm family. At his parents death he was...
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