Site of Millstone Creek Community
(Side 1)
Site of Millstone Creek Community Goosepond Militia District Oglethrope Co. (Originally Wilkes Co.) Settled in 1784 by Virginians who came with Colonel George Mathews to the Broad River Valley of Georgia immediately after the American Revolution. "For several years the boyhood home of Meriwether Lewis the explorer."
XVII Century December 13, 1998
(Side 2)
Young Meriwether Lewis-future explorer, spent his preteen years in the Millstone Creek Settlement with his stepfather, John Marks and his mother, Lucy Meriwether Lewis-Marks, who came from Albemarle Co. Virginia.
On this Georgia frontier Meriwether Lewis made friends with the Indians by saving an Indian boy´s life. Later, the Indian boy saved him from death in quicksand.
Meriwether and neighbors-all kinsmen-were respected and befriended by the Indians. From the Indians he learned many useful survival tactics for wilderness travel.
(Side 3)
Marker place the Washington and Petersburg to Danielsville Road near Millstone Creek Baptist Church (organized 1788)
Directions to homesites of early settlers starting at the marker:
John Marks-Approx. 1/2 mile N.E. on East side of Millstone Creek
John Gilmer-Approx. 1 mile S.E. on East side of Millstone Creek
Nicholas Johnson-Approx. 1 mile South on road, East of Millstone Creek
Francis Meriwether-Approx. 1/2 mile N.W. on West side of Millstone Creek
Martha Harvie-Approx. 1 mile N.W. on West side of Millstone Creek
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Ken Moser.