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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21XG_united-distributors_Smyrna-GA.html
Founded in Atlanta in 1940, United Distributors exemplifies the entrepreneurialism that characterized Georgia business during the twentieth century. With the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment delegated to each state the rig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MRB_shoupade-park_Smyrna-GA.html
Within this park is the remnant of a unique fortification known as Johnston's River Line. In mid June 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston was fighting in central Cobb County and about to withdraw to the Kennesa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MR9_first-shoupade_Smyrna-GA.html
Before you are the earthen remnants of a Civil War fort of unique design. Upon seeing these forts, Confederate Major General G.W. Smith said that their designer — Brigadier General Francis Shoup — would become famous, and Smith called …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MR7_artillery-redan_Smyrna-GA.html
The palisade was interrupted at this point for an artillery redan, an earth structure designed to protect two cannons. The lower sections in the wall of the redan indicate where the muzzle of each gun would protrude. Of the three dozen or so redan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MR5_second-shoupade_Smyrna-GA.html
Again, you are standing behind a Shoupade. This fort faced slightly west of north. It was one of five Shoupades along Fort Drive, which derived its name from the existence of these forts. For over five decades (1950s to early 2000s), this Shoup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMB3_collins-springs-primitive-baptist-church_Smyrna-GA.html
Founded circa 1850, the original church was destroyed in 1864 by the Federal Army and rebuilt after the Civil War. The church, cemetery, and nearby spring carry the name of James A. Collins, an Atlanta pioneer, merchant, and local landowner. His p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJSO_the-march-to-soap-creek_Smyrna-GA.html
Schofield's 23d A. C. [US] marked time in this vicinity while McPherson's Army of the Tenn. [US] made demonstrations at Chattahoochee ferries below Johnston's River Line [CS] — indicating, falsely, that crossings would be made there while ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJSN_the-alexander-eaton-house-hoods-h-dq-rs_Smyrna-GA.html
S. on this rd., .8 mi. stands the ante-bellum residence of Alexander Eaton (1809-1905). July 3, 4, 5, 1864, the intrenched lines of Gen. John B. Hood's A.C. [CS] extended along the rd. from the Gann Cem. to site of Cooper's Lake. The Eaton house, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6H_here-johnstons-river-line-crossed-the-rd_Smyrna-GA.html
July 5, 1864. Gen. J.E. Johnston's Army of Tenn. [CS] withdrew from the Smyrna-Ruff's Mill line to formidable field-works which crossed the rd. at this point. The left of the line was at Nickajack Cr., 4.5 mi. S.W.; the rt. curved to the Chattahoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCWW_hoods-corps-at-battle-of-ruffs-mill_Smyrna-GA.html
When Johnston's forces [CS] withdrew from Kennesaw Mtn., July 3, 1864, they occupied a double line of field works extending from Smyrna S. W. to Nickajack Creek at Dodgen's Mill, more or less along this, the old Concord Road. Hood's Corps held …
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