William Makepeace Thackeray
In the `Masonic Hall` on this site, the British author lectured (Feb. 11-12, 1856), as guest of The Young Men`s Library Assn. He wrote home: `Nice quaint old town Augusta, rambling great street...
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Author of "The Young Marooners"
Robert Francis Goulding, preacher, teacher, author, inventor, as minister of the Bath Presbyterian Church from 1843 to 1851, occupied its manse, about 1 mi. north. During the time he wrote the...
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Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman 1794-1885
Born in Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia on March 21, 1794. Grew up in Kentucky under guardianship of Henry Clay. Visited Augusta in 1818, where she met and married Richard Tubman, wealthy...
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Springfield Baptist Church, Birthplace of Morehouse College
This building, which was erected in 1801 by Augusta`s first Methodist Society, was moved to this location in 1844 to become the home of the Springfield Baptist Church. Organized in 1787 by Jesse...
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DeSoto In Georgia
In May 1539 Hernando de Soto landed in Florida with over 600 people, 220 horses and mules, and a herd of swine reserved for famine. Fired by his success in Pizarro`s conquest of Peru, De Soto...
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Georgia R.R. and Banking Company
On May 21, 1837, Georgia Railroad and Banking Company operated from this place the first railroad in Georgia. It is the oldest railroad in Georgia continuously operating under its...
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Georgia's First School of Medicine
The property on which the Widows Home is located was the site of Augusta`s first City Hospital. Constructed in 1818, the hospital provided for the `sick poor` of Augusta and later evolved into...
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White House Tract
The 500-acres parcel of land long known as the `White House Tract` witnessed many of Augusta`s most significant historical events. On this tract an Indian trading company known as MacKay´s Trading...
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Liberty Methodist Church
Liberty, which evolved out of a Methodist society organized about 1775, is Georgia`s oldest Methodist Church. The original log church was erected west of here by Samuel Collins who, in 1773, had...
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Paine College
Paine Institute, rechartered as Paine College in 1903, was founded Nov. 1, 1882, by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Epicscopla Church, South, at the urgent request...
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Two Early Augusta Churches
St. John Methodist Church was founded in 1798 by Stith Mead, a young Virginia minister who denounced the worldliness of fun-loving Augusta. Bishop Francis Asbury visited the church and watched its...
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Signal Corps Aviation School 1911-1913
On the Barnes farm, south and east of this marker, one of the first military aviation training centers in the U. S. was established in 1911. After successful test flights of the second...
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Birthplace of General Joseph Wheeler
A short distance north of this place, General Joseph Wheeler was born on Sept. 10, 1836. He graduated from West Point in 1859 and held the rank of 2nd lieutenant when the Civil War broke out....
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LaFayette Visits Augusta
This is the site of the old Planter`s Hotel, which was burned in 1839. There the Marquis de LaFayette was entertained during his visit to Augusta in March 1825. LaFayette landed at Savannah on...
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Bellevue
Home of Freeman Walker, outstanding citizen of early Georgia. Born in Virginia in 1780, he came to Richmond County in his youth and studied law. Freeman Walker, in 1826, deeded 70 acres of land to...
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