Philadelphia United Methodist Church
In 1839, Philadelphia Sunday School Society was organized and a house of warship was built on a track tract of land on Lick Creek donated by the Turner family. Joel Chandler Harris, while he lived...
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Rock Eagle Mound Monument
Rock Eagle Mound Mound of prehistoric origin. Believed to be ceremonial mound. Made with white quartz rocks in the shape of an eagle. Head turned to the east. Length 102 feet. Spread of wings...
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Birthplace of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Birthplace of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Born September 17, 1825 Putnam County Georgia Commissioner of the Confederate Government to Europe, Senator of the United States, Secretary...
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Branch Bank of The State of Georgia
In the Dec. 4, 1818 Georgia Journal directors of the Bank of the State of Georgia at Savannah announced a meeeting on Jan. 1, 1819 to appoint 7 directors and a cashier for the branches established...
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George Claud Adams
G.C. Adams, leading educator in Georgia, was born in Newton County in 1868. He became Newton County School Superintendent in 1902, after several years of teaching. While Superintendent he worked...
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Concord Methodist Church
The oldest Methodist church west of the Oconee River, Concord, first called Victory, was established in 1810, when William B. Prichard and Thomas Johnston built a little log church on the Stage...
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The March to the Sea
On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea....
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The Stoneman Raid
Closing in on Atlanta in July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, found its vast fortifications ´too strong to assault and too extensive to invest.´ To force an evacuation, he sent Maj....
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Turnwold Plantation
Here, from 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, author of ´Uncle Remus´, lived and worked as a printer´s apprentice on what was probably the only newspaper ever printed on a Southern...
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Rockville School
This school, built in 1889 consolidated in 1890 and graded in 1892, is said to have been the first Consolidated rural school in Georgia, also the first Standard rural school and the...
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Georgia 4-H Center
This Georgia 4-H Center is a tribute to former members and an educational training center for all future members. Georgia 4-H Club work, with its equal training of the Head, heart, Hands...
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Georgia 4-H Clubs
GEORGIA 4-H CLUBS Motto: ´To Make the Best Better´ Georgia 4-H Club work started in 1905 with 151 boys, each growing one acre of corn, under the leadership of G.C. Adams. In 1911 girls´ tomato and...
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Desoto Trail
In Commemoration of the De Soto Expedition 1540 Old Hartford on the Ocmulgee is near the ancient site of Ocute on the "eastward flowing river" where dwelt the Hitchiti Indians. De Soto and...
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Slosheye Trail
Slosheye Trail was used by the Indians and white traders as an artery of travel as early as 1750 and extended from Hawkinsville on the Ocmulgee River to Drayton on the Flint River. This...
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Old Hartford
This is old Hartford, from 1809 until 1836 the seat of Pulaski County, and during those years a thriving city, influential in the military and political life of Georgia. Long before that time, the...
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