William Bartram Trail Traced 1773-1777
On March 21, 1970 H. Grady Bell and friends founded the `Bartram Trail Society` of Georgia at Zion Episcopal Church. Erected by Redbud District of the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. in...
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Taliaferro County
A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America Sponsored by Sharon~Raytown Garden Club In cooperation with American Legion, Roy Dozier Post 8 The Ogeechee Studio and...
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Crawfordville Baptist Church
This, the first Protestant Church in the Taliaferro area and originally called Bethel, was established in 1802 by Rev. Jesse Mercer and Rev. James Matthews on land given by William Janes, one of...
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South Liberty Presbyterian Church
In 1820, several members of Liberty Church, Wilkes County, petitioned to form a new church, South Liberty, because of "distance, bad roads, high water in winter". A log church was built in...
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Roselle Mercier Montgomery
The renowned Georgia poetess, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, daughter of Col. William Nathaniel and Emma Smith Mercier, was born on this site in 1874. Educated at Washington Female Seminary and...
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Raytown Methodist Church
This church is located in that part of the original Wilkes Circuit of 1786, "the cradle of Georgia Methodism", from which Bishop Francis Asbury formed the Little River Circuit at the Camden, S. C....
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Crawfordville Methodist Church
This church, originally known as "Bird´s Chapel", was founded in 1826 as the first church in the newly formed town of Crawfordville. It was an outgrowth of the now defunct Powder Creek...
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Site of Childhood Home of Richard Malcolm Johnston
Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822-1898), educator and author, was born at Powelton. Later, his father moved to Crawfordville for better school facilities for his children. The Powelton home was torn...
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Robert Grier, Astronomer
On this land, in the plantation home of his father, Aaron Grier, Sr., Revolutionary soldier, Robert Grier, founder of the nationally famous "Grier Almanac", was born in 1782. The...
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Site of Chivers Plantation and Store
At this crossroads stood the store and drug shop of Col. Robert Chivers, father of Georgia´s "lost poet", Dr. Thomas Holley Chivers. Born at his father´s plantation home nearby in 1809,...
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Grave of Brig. Gen. Aaron W. Grier
About 1/4 miles from here, in the Grier family cemetery, is the marked grave of Brig. Gen. Aaron Grier, born near here Dec. 2, 1794. When quite young, with Gen. Floyd, he fought the Creek Indians,...
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Federal Headquarters
When Federal forces occupied Americus in 1865, the Colonel in charge selected this beautiful Greek Revival house as his headquarters. The house is believed to have been built circa 1855 by...
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Confederate Hospitals
Thousands of Confederate soldiers were patients at Foard Hospital on this site between August and December 1864. Following a disastrous fire and explosion on August 31, the patients were evacuated...
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Speaker Crisp
Charles Frederick Crisp (1845-1896), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, built this house in the 1880`s. A native of England and a veteran of service with the Confederate States Army, he...
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Confederate Cemetery
Here rest 129 Confederate soldiers -- 45 of them `Unknown` -- all of whom died in Confederate hospitals in Americus. These men served in the Army of Tennessee. Some were with Gen. Jubal Early in...
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