200 Years of Sawmilling
For nearly two centuries the story of sawmilling in the Southeast was enacted on this point on the Altamaha River. In the summer of 1721, men from South Carolina sawed the 3-inch planks to...
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Fort King George
1 mi. The site of fort King George, the first fort on Georgia soil built by the English. Erected by the Colony of south Carolina in 1721, 12 years before the Georgia Colony was founded. This...
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McIntosh County
This county, created Dec. 19, 1793 from Liberty County, was named for the McIntosh family, early settlers, whose name was associated with most events in Georgia history for many years....
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Colonel John McIntosh
About one mile from this spot, at Fairhope, the adjoining plantation, Colonel John McIntosh, hero of the american revolution, was buried in 1826. It was Colonel McIntosh, in command of Fort Morris...
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Captain William McIntosh
In this plot under the ´Great Oak at Mallow Plantation,´ Captain William McIntosh, father of the Indian chief, General William McIntosh, was buried in 1794. Captain McIntosh an officer in...
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Hickory Hill
Populist presidential candidate and Georgia political leader Thomas E. Watson purchased this house from Captain James Wilson 1900. Watson extensively renovated both the house and...
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Home of Thomas E. Watson 1856-1922
After passing the state Bar in 1876, native Thomas E. Watson returned to Thomson and lived in this house with his family from 1881 to 1900. In his first floor office Watson began his law...
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Usry House
Built by William Usry about 1795 as the seat of his extensive cotton plantations, Usry House early became the center of ante-bellum social life in this region. In its parlor, the...
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William Bartram Trail Traced 1773-1777
Deep South Region, William Bartram Trail, Traced 1773 - 1777. 1773 the Treaty of Augusta Bartram visited Wrightsborough. He described the view of high hills and rich vales. He took on...
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The Rock House
This 18th century dwelling is the only surviving house associated with the Colonial Wrightsboro Settlement (1768). Its builder, Thomas Ansley, used weathered granite, quarried in its natural form...
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The Birthplace of George McDuffie
From these humble and obscure Georgia pinelands, assisted by the plantation-owning South Carolina Calhouns, George McDuffie rose to become Congressman, Senator, and Governor of South Carolina....
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Wrightsboro
On this site in 1754, Edmund Grey, a pretending Quaker, founded the town of Brandon, named for one of its leaders. In Dec. 1768, Joseph Mattock and Jonathan Sell, Quakers, obtained a grant of...
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Sen. Thomas E. Watson "Sage of Hickory Hill"
Born near Thomson, Sept. 5, 1856, Thomas Edward Watson, gifted writer, eloquent speaker and longtime political leader of Georgia, spent most of his life in this section. His home, ´Hickory Hill,´...
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McDuffie County
McDuffie County was created by Act of Oct. 18, 1870 from Columbia and Warren Counties. It was named for George McDuffie (1788-1851). Born in Columbia (now Warren County, Ga.), he became...
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Noted Indian Trail
The Upper Trading Path, one of the historic Indian routes of the Southeast, passed this spot, leading from present Augusta to tribes as far west as the Mississippi River. By various connections...
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