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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15MY_to-the-women-of-griffin-and-spalding-county_Griffin-GA.html
To The Women of Griffin and Spalding CountyWho gave their services during the War Between the States from '61 to ?65 James S. Boynton Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy have placed this boulder
No act of injustice, no failure of duty, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14IG_in-memoriam_Griffin-GA.html
FrontIn Memoriam Our Confederate Dead
Right Side"Hon'd sleep the brave who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blest! When spring with dewy fingers cold, returns to deck their hallow'd mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod. Their fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GG_old-mcintosh-road_Griffin-GA.html
This tablet marks the
Old McIntosh Road
Part of the Three Notch Trail blazed by the Creek Indian Chief
William McIntosh
Slain in 1825, because of his friendship for the White Man
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII1_the-city-of-griffin_Griffin-GA.html
The first city government of Griffin, founded in 1840 by General Lewis Lawrence Griffin, was authorized in 1843 when the General Assembly of Georgia granted it a charter. The charter was accepted locally in 1844 and the first municipal government …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII0_lewis-lawrence-griffin_Griffin-GA.html
Born in South Carolina, October 3, 1794, Lewis Lawrence Griffin moved to Georgia with his widowed mother in the early 1800's. He fought in the Georgia Militia under General Daniel Newnan in Florida and, later, under Generals John Floyd and Thomas …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIFS_confederate-cemetery_Griffin-GA.html
Stonewall Cemetery is located on part of a plot given as a burial site by Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin when he founded Griffin in 1840. Several hundred Confederate and one Union soldier, casualties of the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro, from the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMICF_founding-of-griffin_Griffin-GA.html
From a stump near the town spring, now covered by the embankment of the railroad, on June 8, 1840, Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin sold lots to the highest bidder, thus establishing the City of Griffin. The first lot was sold to William Leake. Gen. Gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBR_georgia-experiment-station_Griffin-GA.html
The Georgia Experiment Station, one of the first State Agricultural Experiment Stations established in this country, was located in Spalding County, Georgia in 1888. The primary objective of its work program is to develop information which will ai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIA8_confederate-camp_Griffin-GA.html
Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens, named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of Confederacy, was about ½ mile from here on McIntosh Road. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at the Cavalry Cam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIA5_confederate-camp_Griffin-GA.html
Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens was named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at Cavalry Camp Milner, located at the present Griffin Munici…