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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRBG_the-bridge-house_Albany-GA.html
Here, at the site of an early ferry over the Flint River, Col. Nelson Tift, owner of bridge and ferry rights and the founder of Albany, had a toll bridge constructed by a well known bridge builder, a freed slave named Horace of Columbus. At the sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRBE_colonel-nelson-tift_Albany-GA.html
Nelson Tift, founder of the City of Albany, was born at Groton, Conn., July 23, 1810. In 1833 he established a mercantile business in Augusta, Georgia. After a sojourn in Hawkinsville he moved to Albany, then in Baker County, in 1836.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRBA_dougherty-county_Albany-GA.html
This County, created by Act of the Legislature December 15, 1853, is named for Charles Dougherty of Athens, noted ante-bellum lawyer and jurist and strong advocate of states rights. In the Creek War in 1836 the Indians were driven out at the Battl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR4N_albanys-first-brick-house_Albany-GA.html
Built of brick hauled from Macon by wagon, this house was completed in 1860 by Congressman William E. (Tete) Smith for his bride, Caroline Williams Smith. The interior trim and mahogany stair rail came from New York; the furnishings were imported …