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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5UV_simon-munro_Riceboro-GA.html
In the family cemetery on this plantation, Westfield, Simon Munro, donor of the silver communion service used for many years in old Midway Congregational church, is buried. Early in the Revolutionary War, Simon Munro, a resident of St. John`s Pari…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5U5_first-african-baptist-church_Riceboro-GA.html
The First African Baptist Church, the oldest black church in Liberty County, had its origins in the North Newport Baptist Church, founded in 1809. In 1818 the North Newport Church, composed of both white and black members, purchased this site and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5SB_riceborough_Riceboro-GA.html
Near the old North Newport Bridge, a short distance East of here, the Court House Square for Liberty County was laid out by Act of February 1, 1797. Riceborough was then the Seat of justice for Liberty County, and a Court House and Public Building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RR_leconte-botanical-gardens_Riceboro-GA.html
Five miles west of here on the old Post Road, the southern most postal route in America, is the site of the home and botanical garden of Louis LeConte, naturalist, mathematician, and scholar, for whom the famous LeConte Pear was named. A native of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5Q6_woodmanston-plantation_Riceboro-GA.html
Established in 1760 by William and John Eatton LeConte, Woodmanston became one of Georgia`s earliest inland swamp rice plantations. In spite of Indian attacks and marauding armies during the Revolution, Woodmanston prospered.
In 1810 control of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5PG_william-bartram-trail_Riceboro-GA.html
In 1773 William Bartram, here viewed Woodmanston Plantation, later the home of his friend, Naturalist John E. LeConte.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O9_lambert-plantation_Riceboro-GA.html
Just east of here was the 863 acre plantation of John Lambert which he purchased in 1784.
John Lambert was born in south Carolina in 1716 and died at his plantation here in December 1786. He is buried in the Midway Cemetery. He never married an…