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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D5L_richmond-hill-veterans-monument-a-war-memorial_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Richmond Hill Veterans Monument. In God We Trust. The Richmond Hill Veterans Monument is dedicated to the men and women of the U.S. armed forces who have served our great nation throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. But the history of sacrifice …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2COO_ways-station_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Way's Station. "...fortune of war..." . Ways Station (now Richmond Hill), Station No. 1-1/2 on the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad, was built on land belonging to William J. Way. He was the first station master and co-owner of Silk Hope rice p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249I_jack-fleming-gregory-senior_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Superintendent of the Henry Ford Plantation at Richmond Hill, Georgia 1929 until the death of Henry Ford in 1947, under his supervision, the dreams Henry Ford envisioned for this community were accomplished. This plaque is placed here in loving…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19XD_robert-e-lee_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14RH_guale-village-at-seven-mile-bend_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Across the Ogeechee River from this point was the northernmost town of the Province of Guale, the village of Satuache. Spanish records place Satuache about 10 miles northeast of Guale's provincial capital at Mission Santa Catalina (St. Catherines …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14R6_richard-j-arnold_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Richard James Arnold (1796-1873) acquired nearby White Hall Plantation through his marriage in 1823 to Louisa Gindrat. A Rhode Island native, Arnold invested heavily in White Hall for the cultivation of cotton and in his Cherry Hill and Mulberry t…
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The production of rice on Bryan Neck utilized upstream fresh water and the tidal influences of the Ogeechee River. Heavy wooden trunks, or tidegates, along the levees and embankments in the rice fields allowed the inflow and outflow of fresh water…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14QX_the-clay-family-of-bryan-neck_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
In this cemetery are interred members of the Clay family, among the most prominent of Bryan Neck and coastal Georgia from the colonial era of Georgia through the 19th century. Prominent among these are Thomas Savage Clay (1801-1849) and his wife M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14QW_george-w-mcallister_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Buried here is George Washington McAllister (1781-1850), a prominent planter of Bryan County. In 1817, McAllister acquired Strathy Hall Plantation on the Ogeechee River where he cultivated rice and was one of the largest slave owners on Bryan Neck…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14QF_the-bottom-village_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
The "Bottom" residential village, built in the mid-1930s, was the first housing project developed by Henry Ford for his employees in the Ways Station (later Richmond Hill) area. The name originated from the fact that the area had been a swamp or a…
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