U.S.S. Harris County
This bell was presented to Harris County by LST 822, U.S.S. HARRIS COUNTY, commissioned Nov. 23, 1944. Carrying the commander of LST Group 68, she led fourteen convoys through enemy waters...
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Waverly Hall
This town was named by its first postmaster. William Osborne, appointed February 2, 1829. In 1827, Mt. Zion Methodist Church was built 1 ½ miles E. on the Old Indian Trail and Stage-coach Road...
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Pine Mountain Valley Resettlement Project
The Resettlement Administration was founded on May 1, 1935 as part of the second phase of President Roosevelt´s New Deal. FDR took a personal interest in the planning of this project with...
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Kingsboro & Cataula
At KINGSBORO. 3mi. S., Ga.´s first narrow gauge railroad (North & South RR), chartered in 1870 (Columbus to Romel), ended in 1873. CATAULA (Big Rock) is a Creek name. Clowers Meth....
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Whitesville
Incorporated in 1837 and named for the pioneer ´White´ family. Whitesville was the site of a stagecoach stop, inn, and stores on a branch of the Oakfuskee Indian Trail. This early road continued...
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Bartlett's Ferry Dam: Antioch Baptist Church
BARLETT´S FERRY DAM: ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH --- 1 ½ Miles --> Rev. Simpson Wilson Barley (1827-1884), minister and doctor, operated a ferry, known as Bartley´s Ferry, 1 ½ miles west on the...
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Harris County
This county, created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 14 & 24, 1827, is named for Charles Harris, eminent Savannah jurist. Born in England and educated in France, he served Savannah as Alderman or...
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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 Dogwood District In cooperation with The Dogwood West Taskforce The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc, And...
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Seven Chestnuts
On this site under seven chestnut trees the Creek Indians held their council meetings. A.J. McBridge Chapter, U.D.C., - 1970 70 Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with additional info,...
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Sandtown Trail
This road was originally the Sandtown Trail traveled by several tribes of Creek Indians. It connected Sandtown on the chattahoochee river near Atlanta, Ga. with another Sandtown in Tallapoosa Co.,...
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Hungarian Colony
In 1888, three wine-making communities were founded here on some 2000 acres. A local land developer, Ralph L. Spencer, invited some 200 Hungarian wine-making families to settle this region. They...
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Historic Tallapoosa
Tallapoosa was a place of great ceremonial importance to the Indians. Here in 1826 settlers discovered ´Charles Town,´ an Indian Village named for one of their great warriors. Several...
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Haralson County
This County, created by Act of the Legislature Jan. 26, 1856, is named for Gen. Hugh A. Haralson, Member of Congress and Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs during the Mexican War....
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Sparta Cemetery
The main cemetery in Sparta was established on property deeded to the town in 1806. Burials illustrate a common nineteenth-century pattern of migration to the area, as settlers from New England...
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Camilla and Zack Hubert Homesite
Zack Hubert, a former Warren County slave, moved here with his family in 1871. The Huberts were among the first African-American landowners in central Georgia and played influential roles in the...
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"July" 1858 The Original July Foxhound
In July 1858 an Irish Foxhound arrived in Georgia as a gift from the noted hunter, Nimrod Gosnell of Roxbury Mills, Maryland, to Colonel Miles G. Harris of Hancock County. the male puppy was...
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Gov. William Rabun
The home of William Rabun, Governor of Georgia 1817-1819. Governor Raburn moved to Wilkes Co., Ga., in 1785. Having the unusual backwoods schooling of his day, he acquired by reading...
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Gov. Charles James McDonald
4.2 mi. In this area stood the home of Charles James McDonald, elected Governor of Georgia in 1839 and 1841. "Fearless and guided by practical wisdom and integrity," he was Solicitor-general...
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Gov. William Jonathan Northen
William Jonathan Northen, Governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, lived in this house. Born in Jones County, July 9, 1835 of Scotch ancestry, Governor Northen graduated from Mercer University....
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Shoulder-bone Creek Treaty
Near the mouth of Shoulder-bone Creek on the banks of the Oconee River a treaty of "amity, peace and commerce" was signed by eight commissioners representing the State of Georgia and 59 head...
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