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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y3A_horace-king-1807-1885-historical_LaGrange-GA.html
Born a slave, Horace King became a master builder who constructed covered bridges over every large river between western Georgia and eastern Mississippi. King gained his freedom in 1846 through the Alabama legislature with the aid of his master, J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y36_mulberry-street-cemeteries-historical_LaGrange-GA.html
The Mulberry Street cemetery complex served the people of LaGrange and the South between 1863 and at least the 1930s. The oldest section is the Stonewall Jackson Confederate Cemetery where soldiers from all thirteen Southern states are buried. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CVR_troup-county_LaGrange-GA.html
The Georgia State Legislature established Troup County and four other counties in West Georgia in 1826. After choosing a location near the geographic center of the county, local leaders named the new county seat after Chateau de Lagrange the Frenc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDS_lafayette_LaGrange-GA.html
Born at the Ch?teau de Chavaniac Auvergne, France, on September 6, 1757, Gilbert Motter De Lafayette became at age 19 a Major General on Georgia Washington's staff. He Played a vital role in the defeat of GeneralCharles Cornwallis at Yorktown, Oct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOU5_bellevue-home-of-sen-benjamin-harvey-hill_LaGrange-GA.html
Benjamin Harvey Hill, one of the first to proclaim the New South industrial rather than agricultural, was born at Hillsborough, Jasper County, Sept. 14, 1823. Reared on a farm at Long Lane, Troup County, graduated with first honors at the Universi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQQ_lagrange-college-1831_LaGrange-GA.html
LaGrange College is the oldest non-tax supported institution of higher education in Georgia. It was chartered in 1831 as LaGrange Female Academy. The charter has been changed three times as the trustees altered the name to LaGrange Female Institut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQO_lagrange-college-1831_LaGrange-GA.html
LaGrange College is the oldest non-tax supported institution of higher education in Georgia. It was chartered in 1831 as LaGrange Female Academy. The charter has been changed three times as the trustees altered the name to LaGrange Female Institut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQ8_bellevue_LaGrange-GA.html
Bellevue, home of United States Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-1882), was built in 1854-55 and typifies the Greek Revival architecture popular in the Old South. Jefferson Davis and other Confederate celebrities were frequent guests here. At th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOAO_the-nancy-harts_LaGrange-GA.html
In 1863, a company of women soldiers was formed in LaGrange by Mrs. J. Brown Morgan. They called themselves the "Nancy Harts" in honor of Georgia's Revolutionary War heroine. Organized to defend LaGrange in the absence of its men, the Nancy Harts …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO69_famous-indian-path_LaGrange-GA.html
The Oakfuskee Trail, main branch of the noted Upper Creek Trading Path from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Central Alabama, passed this site, running east and west. Beginning at present Augusta, the route led this way via Warrenton, Ea…
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