On April 4, 1923 Ora Eugene Tate, Sr. deeded this 1.8 acre tract of land to the ladies of the Service Star Legion of Elbert County. The deed stipulated that the parcel of land must be perpetually...
The Elbert County Courthouse was built in 1894 and opened in a formal ceremony at the beginning of January 1895, as the third county courthouse building and fourth County site in Elbert...
Spring made famous By Nancy Hart Pioneer Woman Revolutionary Heroine Only women for whom Georgia named a county WPA 1936 DAR Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with additional info,...
NANCY HART -- 1-1/2 mi. --> On Wahatche (War Woman) Creek, in Revolutionary times, lived Nancy Morgan Hart her husband, Benjamin, and their children. Six feet tall, masculine ion strength and...
Stinchcomb Methodist Church was one of the first churches in this section of the state. On Dec. 30, 1794, Middleton Wood granted to Absalom Stinchcomb, John Gatewood and John Ham, the ´privilege...
COLONISTS´ CROSSING 8 mi. ´The Point´, where early settlers crossed into Georgia, is eight miles east of here. As soon as this are was ceded, Governor Wright opened a post at the confluence of...
Bethlehem Methodist Church, second oldest Methodist Church in Georgia and formerly known as Thompson´s Meeting House, sponsored the First Methodist Annual Conference in Georgia, on April 9, 1788....
Van´s Creek Baptist Church, established early in 1785 by Rev. Dozier Thornton, Revolutionary soldier and Virginian, was named for an Indian convert. David Vann, famed Chief of the...
Stephen Heard, Governor of Georgia in 1781, lawyer, planter, surveyor and soldier of the Revolution, lies buried in this family cemetery. With a price on his head he was captured by the British at...
Off this road lies the site of Heardmont home of Governor Stephen Heard, 1740 - 1815 and ´God´s Acre´ the family cemetery where he lies buried. A ten acre park surrounding the site is owned...
This road, formerly an Indian trail which paralleled the coast, was used by the Spanish and British. In 1778 it was traveled by Revolutionary soldiers who marched against Fort Tonyn. The...
GRAVE OF GENERAL WILEY THOMPSON 4 bl. E. General Wiley Thompson, considered the ablest and most humane of the agents to the Seminole Indians of Florida, was ambushed and killed near the agency at...
Created from Wilkes County by Act of Dec. 10, 1790, Elbert County was settled in 1784 by Gen. George Mathews and a group from Virginia and Carolina. The site of Petersburg, the original settlement...
Rev. Daniel Tucker owned a large plantation on the Savannah River and is buried near his old homesite, ´Point Lookout´, six miles from here. Born in Virginia, February 14, 1744, Daniel Tucker came...
In 1788, Thomas Maxwell founded the Falling Creek Baptist Church. A Virginian, he was born September 8, 1742, and died December 12, 1837. Imprisoned a number of times for preaching the Baptist...
In the late 1770´s, a large caravan of Virginians, including a Methodist preacher, traveling south in search of a new home, settled in this neighborhood. In the company were the Adams, Alexander,...
One mile north, on December 9, 1864, during the American Civil War, U.S. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis crossed Ebenezer Creek with his 14th Army Corps as it advanced toward Savannah during Gen. William...
DEEP SOUTH REGION WILLIAM BARTRAM TRAIL TRACED 1773-1777 John and William Bartram, naturalists, explored Ebenezer and Effingham County on their Savannah-Augusta travels. ERECTED BY...
Effingham Camp Meeting has the longest record of continuous service in South Georgia- from 1790 according to oral tradition. The first camp ground was off Sister´ Ferry Road on land of...
Camp Davis was one of three Camps of Instruction authorized January 1862, by Governor Joseph B. Brown of Georgia, to enlist, determine fitness for duty, and train for the Confederate States...