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Sherman at Conyers

On the night of Nov. 17, 1864, Morgan´s division, 14th Corps, of the Left Wing of Gen. Sherman´s army [US], which had marched from Atlanta on the 15th on its destructive March to the Sea,...

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Fightin' Joe Wheeler

Near this spot, May 9, 1865, Major General Joseph Wheeler, C.S.A., and part of his staff were captured by Federal troops who were pursuing President Jefferson Davis. Gen. Wheeler was released at...

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Conyers Methodist Church

Conyers Methodist Church was organized in 1852 by Rev. John L. Stewart, Rev. Joel Stansell, Rev. David T. White. The present building, fourth on the site, was dedicated in 1902 by Bishop Warren A....

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Rockdale County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature Oct 18, 1870, is named for Rockdale Church, so called for the fine underlying granite strata. Conyers, the County site, was incorporated in 1854...

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Georgia's State Capital

Augusta served as the capital of Georgia from 1785 until 1795 when the seat of government was moved to the new capital, Louisville. The Georgia General Assembly met at this site in a...

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First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) began in Kentucky in the early years of the nineteenth century. Dr. Daniel Hook and Captain and Mrs. Edward Campfield established Augusta´s...

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Augusta State University

Augusta State University traces its roots to 1783 when its parent institution, the Academy of Richmond County, was chartered. Offering college- level classes to prepare students for admission into...

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First Ebenezer Baptist Church

This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to...

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Joseph R. Lamar, Associate Justice Supreme Court

Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916) lived in this manse from 1860-1875 while his father, James Sanford Lamar, was pastor of First Christian Church. A prominent attorney, he served two terms in the...

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Stoney Nurses Home of the Lamar School of Nursing

This building, named for Dr. George N. Stoney, a prominent local black physician, opened in 1909 to house students of Lamar School of Nursing. The school, founded in 1897 by Lucy Craft Laney...

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Spirit Creek Baptist Church

In July 1800, this church was organized in a canebrake on Spirit Creek by slaves on the Twiggs plantation. The Reverend J.W. Sutton served as the first pastor. In July 1868, the church...

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Church of the Most Holy Trinity

The current sanctuary was constructed from 1857-63 and is one of the oldest Catholic Church buildings in Georgia. It was designed by J.R. Niernsee, architect of the State House in Columbia,...

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Washington's Southern Tour

During his Southern tour of 1791, President George Washington visited Augusta--at that time Georgia´s capital--from May 18-21. Washington met with Governor Edward Telfair and other...

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Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, U.S.A.

One of two native Georgians who served as generals in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, Montgomery C. Meigs was born here on May 3, 1816, grandson of a University of Georgia president....

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Explosion At The Confederate Powder Works

In August, 1864, a violent explosion destroyed the granulating building of the Augusta Powder Works, one of the 28 buildings of the Confederacy's massive gunpowder mill along Augusta Canal....

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Haines Normal and Industrial Institute

Established by influential educator Lucy Craft Laney, the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute was chartered in 1886 and grew to include a Kindergarten to Junior College curriculum, the Lamar...

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John McClinton Tutt 1886-1986

For over six decades, John Tutt educated Augusta´s youth at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute and Lucy Craft Laney High School. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1905,...

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U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth (1754-1794)

Robert Forsyth was the first law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. Captain of Light Dragoons in Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee´s cavalry during the Revolutionary War, Forsyth had been...

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The Sisters of Saint Joseph in Augusta

Members of the seventeenth-century French Order of Saint Joseph of Carondelet were first invited to Georgia at the end of the Civil War to teach and staff an orphanage in Savannah. Working with...

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Lucy Craft Laney

A leading educator of the nineteenth century, Lucy Craft Laney was born into a free African-American household in Macon, Georgia. In 1873 she was part of Atlanta University´s first graduating...

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