Featured Plaque:

The Cavalry Actions at Waynesboro

Late on Nov. 26, 1864, elements of the 3rd Cavalry Division [Union], Brig. Gen. J.L. Kilpatrick, USA, of Gen. Sherman´s army, reached the railroad bridge north of Waynesboro and partially burned...

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Cavalry Skirmish at Thomas' Station

On Dec. 3, 1864, Kilpatrick´s cavalry division [Union], supported by Baird´s division, 14th Corps, moving on the extreme left of General Sherman´s army, reached the Augusta and Savannah Railroad...

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The 14th Corps at Lumpkin's Station

On Dec. 3, 1864, after a hard march across Buckhead, Rocky Beaver Dam and Rosemary creeks from camps N. of Birdsville and W. of Buckhead Church, the 14th Corps [USA], Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, USA...

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Sherman at Midville

On Nov. 14th, 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....

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Waynesborough

On July 31, 1783, an Act was passed by the General Assembly meeting in Augusta to lay out a town, Waynesborough, on reserved or private land. Commissioners named (Thomas Lewis, Sr., Thomas Lewis,...

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Old Quaker Road

This highway has been following closely the course of the Old Quaker Road, one of Georgia´s earliest vehicular thoroughfares. It was opened about 1769 to link Savannah, the colonial capital, with...

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Croatan Indian Community

In 1870 a group of Croatan Indians migrated from their homes in Robeson County North Carolina, following the turpentine industry to southeast Georgia. Eventually many of the Croatans became tenant...

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Willow Hill Elementary School for Negroes / A Georgia Equalization School

Willow Hill Elementary School for Negroes A Georgia Equalization School Willow Hill School was established in 1874 during Reconstruction as one of the first schools for African Americans...

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Blue Star Memorial Highway

A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America Sponsored by Bulloch council of Garden Clubs and Oleander District of the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. in...

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Upper Black Creek Church

Upper Black Creek met each month on the third Sunday and Saturday Before from the time she was organized in 1802 until the Church elected to meet every Sunday in 1957. Conference was every...

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1790 Union Meeting House

In 1790, John Crawford and Phillip Mathews, Burke Circuit preacher, organized a Methodist Society in the home of Joshua Hodges, Sr. In 1791, Union Meeting House became the frequent entry in...

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Upper Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery

Organized circa 1829, the church was originally located at the home of Absolom Parrish and called Parrish meeting house. Following a fire of the log structure on the Parrish farm, the...

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The Fabulous Fifty of 1906 / The Delegates

The Fabulous Fifty of 1906 On Saturday, December 1, 1906, Gov. Joseph M Terrell, Georgia’s “education governor”, came to Savannah to moderate the bidding contest for the historic First District’s...

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Upper Black Creek Primitive Baptist Church

Upper Black Creek Primitive Baptist Church was Constituted on August 15, 1802 in the home of John Albritton. The organizing presbytery consisted of Henry Cook, Isham Peacock, John Goldwire and...

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Ridgon’s Mill / The Rigdon Cemetery

Rigdon’s Mill On Mill Creek just north of this marker stood one of the oldest and long lasting water mills and Bulloch County. It was built about 1840 by Daniel Rigdon and his Irish...

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1804 New Hope Methodist Church

Organized from Union by Rev. Lewis Mayers, New Hope was Bulloch’s second Methodist Church. 1804 trustees were David Kennedy, Josiah Everette, Jarvis Jackson, Burrell Whittington and William...

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Excelsior and its Academy

Excelsior was the cultural center of Bulloch County in the late 1800s before it became part of Candler County. It was founded in 1875 on land donated by Jimerson Kennedy, Remer Franklin, W....

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Eastside Cemetery

Eastside Cemetery was established on this site in 1889 in response to citizens’ request for a central location for the burial of the dead. Early cemeteries, known is burying grounds, dotted fields...

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Banks Dairy

The Banks Dairy Farm was operated on this site and included 900 acres of cultivated land combined with dairying operations. David Callaway Banks, born April 8, 1882, in Bulloch County,...

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First District Agricultural and Mechanical School

Georgia Southern University was founded as First District A&M in 1906. Bulloch County won a bidding war with Tattnall and Emanuel counties offering cash, 300 acres of land, and utilities...

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