Fender Cemetery
A short distance east on this road is Fender Cemetery, in which are buried many of the first settlers of the area of old Lowndes County lying East of the Alabama River, from Union church....
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Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church, on the Alapaha River one- half mile West on this road, was constituted October 21, 1825, the first church in the old area of Irwin County. The original members were: William...
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Lanier County
This County created by Acts of the Legislature of Aug. 11, 1919 & Aug. 7, 1920 is named for Sidney Lanier, poet of Georgia. Lanier was born in Macon Feb. 3, 1842 and practiced law there with...
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Roosevelt's Barnesville Speech
Roosevelt´s Barnesville Speech On August 11, 1938, as many as 50,000 people gathered in the stadium of Gordon Military College for an address by President Franklin Roosevelt dedicating the...
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Blue Star Memorial Highway
Blue Star Memorial A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United State of America Sponsored by Red Bud District Garden Clubs of Georgia, Inc. In cooperation of Johnstonville Garden...
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Southern Rivers Energy
Southern Rivers Energy A Touchstone Energy Cooperative REA Project 75 was chartered in February 1937 and was energized August 11, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became Lamar Electric...
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Johnstonville Historic District - Johnstonville Community Clubhouse
Built in 1915 as the Johnstonville School. The school closed its doors in late 1945 and the building became the Johnstonville Community Clubhouse. The building was placed on the National Register...
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Goggans, Georgia
Goggans was named for the family of John F. Goggans. He donated the land for the railroad station, general store, where the post office was located, and access land to the Union Primitive Baptist...
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Lamar Electric Membership Corporation
Dedicated August 11, 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt Rededicated to service 1988 E.J. Martin, Jr., President W.H. Averett, Jr., V. President J.H. Gunnels, Secretary H.B. Cromer,...
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A&M G.I.C. 1908 - 1933
In April of 1908 the Sixth District Agricultural and Mechanical College opened here with 18 students. In September of 1930 the school was reorganized as Georgia Industrial College. President T.O....
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Gordon Military College
Founded as Male and Female Seminary in 1852, this was a pioneer school of its kind in Georgia. It was reorganized in 1872 as Gordon Institute, named for General John B. Gordon, famed...
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Confederate Hospital
On this side stood one of Milner´s temporary hospitals for Confederate soldiers wounded in the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro in 1864. These men were hastily evacuated south on the only railroad...
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Confederate Hospital
During the War Between the States, 1861-1865, 155 Confederate soldiers, wounded in the Battle of Atlanta and evacuated, died in several improvised hospitals in Barnesville. This marks the site...
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Federals At Barnesville
As Wilson´s Federal Cavalry moved toward Macon, near this spot on Wednesday, April 19, 1865, some of them attacked a small Confederate force, ´The Dixie Rangers.´ Greatly outnumbered, ´The...
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Gachet Home
The historic Gachet home is situated at the crossing of Towns and old Alabama Road, called Milner Cross Roads. This road was also an Indian trail. Benjamin Gachet, a French nobleman, fled from a...
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