Sunshine Church II, built in 1880 and dedicated in 1883 by Rev. Sam Jones, replaced old Sunshine Church, two miles south of here, which General Sherman´s troops burned in 1864. A wounded northern...
This road was built about 1800 by the State as a military road for the movement of troops between Milledgeville and Fort Hawkins (Macon) during the Indian Wars. It was strongly garrisoned to...
Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, C.S.A., son of Senator Alfred Iverson, also a Brig. Gen., and Caroline Goode Holt, was born here Feb. 14, 1829. He served with the U. S. Cavalry in the Mexican War...
This County, created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 10, 1807, is named for James Jones of Savannah, a legislator at 23 and member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1798 in which year he...
The town is named for Samuel Griswold who moved his iron foundries and cotton gin factories here from Clinton to be on the railroad. A disastrous unrecorded battle was fought here in 1864 when...
The first iron foundry in Georgia was established here by Samuel Griswold who came from Connecticut, settling in Clinton in 1820. He also manufactured about 1,000 cotton ghins a year and ran a...
About 1:30 P.M. Nov. 22, 1864, after halting in Griswoldville to reform his column and report his progress, Brig. Gen. P.J. Phillips began moving his command (1st Division. Georgia Militia...
On Nov. 22, 1864, the 1st Division. Georgia Milltia (less the 1st Brigade), with the 1st and 2nd Regiments. Georgia State Line, and Anderson´s Georgia Battery attached. Brig. Gen. Pleasant...
On Nov. 22 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman´s army[USA] marched southeast from the vicinity of Gray toward Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea. To...
On the night of Nov. 21, 1864, Murray´s brigade of Kilpatrick´s cavalry[USA] which during the day had burned buildings and destroyed railways facilities in Griswoldville, camped on the E fork of...
On Nov. 22, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman´s army [USA] moved SE from Clinton (near Gray) towards Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea....
On Nov. 22, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman´s army [USA] moved SE from Clinton (near Gray) towards Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea....
On Nov. 22, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman´s army [USA] moved SE from Clinton (near Gray) towards Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea....
On the night of Nov. 21, 1864, the headquarters and one division (Hazen´s) of the 15th Corps[USA] of General Sherman´s army, which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the...
On the night of Nov. 19, 1864, Kilpatrick´s cavalry division [US], which was covering the advance of the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of General Sherman´s army on its destructive March to the...
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. He divided...
On Nov. 18, 1864, Blair´s 17th Corps of the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman´s army [USA]. Which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Ocmulgee River at...
In July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman´s army [US] closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications ´too strong to assault and too extensive to invest,´ he sought to force its fall by sending Maj....
In July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman´s army [US] closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications ´too strong to assault and too extensive to invest,´ he sought to force its fall by sending Maj....
In 1862, to meet the pressing need of the Confederate States Army for revolvers of the Colt pattern, the Griswold Cotton Gin Company´s plant, on this site, was converted to a pistol factory. In...