Site of Popes Chapel
Site of Popes Chapel 1799 – 1860 On Land owned by Burwell Pope Established is a church by 1799 from a Methodist society in the home of Burwell Pope 1751 – 1800. 3/10 Mi. SW or the home of...
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Site of Millstone Creek Community
(Side 1) Site of Millstone Creek Community Goosepond Militia District Oglethrope Co. (Originally Wilkes Co.) Settled in 1784 by Virginians who came with Colonel George Mathews to the Broad River...
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William Bartram Trail Traced 1773-1777
On this site in 1773, William Bartram with Indians and Traders concluded the western boundary of ´Treaty of Augusta´. ERECTED BY Azalea District, Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. IN COOPERATION...
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Watson Mill Bridge
Built by W.W. King in 1885, Watson Mill Bridge is Georgia´s longest existing covered bridge. Of the Town lattice type it has four spans and is 236 feet long. Covered primarily to protect...
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Meson Academy
Francis Meson (1761-1806), an Irishman and ´wandering schoolteacher,´ became a rich merchant in Lexington. He bequeathed $8,000.00 for an academy building and valuable property for an endowment,...
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Beth-Salem Presbyterian Church
Beth-Salem Presbyterian Church was organized on December 20, 1785, in the wilderness about three miles West of this site, under the leadership of Mr. John Newton, then a licentiate. It was...
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Liberty-Salem- Woodstock-Philomath
This ancient Church has served under four names and in four counties. Liberty Presbyterian Church was organized by the Rev. Daniel Thatcher, about 1788. The original place of worship, a log...
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Oglethorpe County
This County created by an Act of the Legislature Dec. 19, 1793, is named for Gen. James E. Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia. Born in London, England, Dec. 22, 1696, Oglethorpe left England in Nov....
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Governor Gilmer's Home
2 bl. George Rockingham Gilmer, of Scotch descent, was born in 1790 in that part of Wilkes Co. that is now Oglethorpe Co. Soon after admittance to the bar in 1813 he was appointed 1st Lt. in...
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Governor Mathews' Homesite
1 mi. George Mathews born in Va. in 1739, of Irish descent, lived in this area then known as ´Goose Pond´ from 1785. His home since burned. He won distinction fighting Indians in the N.W. Ter....
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William Harris Crawford
William Harris Crawford, teacher, lawyer, duelist & statesman, was born in Va. Feb. 24, 1772, son of a poor farmer. Moving to Ga., at 14 he studied, taught & was admitted to the bar in 1799....
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Elder's Mill Covered Bridge
Built in 1897 by Nathaniel Richardson, this 99-foot-long bridge originally carried the Watkinsville-Athens Road over Calls Creek. It was moved here to Rose Creek in 1924 and the road was relocated...
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E.D. Stroud School / A Georgia Equalization School
E. D. Stroud School was established in 1956 is part of a statewide “equalization” effort in George’s African-American public schools. As part of Georgia’s massive resistance to federally mandated...
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Blue Star Memorial Highway
A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America SPONSORED BY The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. IN COOPERATION WITH Georgia Department of Transportation AND The Azalea...
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Jeannette Rankin's Georgia Home
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) was the first woman to serve in Congress: being elected from Montana in 1916 before women had the right to vote in other states. She was active in women´s suffrage and...
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