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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14YL_baisdens-bluff-academy_Townsend-GA.html
Located a short distance East of here, near the River, Baisden`s Bluff Academy was the main educational institution in McIntosh County in the early years of the 19th century. A Boarding School, operating the year round, its roll held the names of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5O_william-bartram-trail_Townsend-GA.html
Donald McIntosh welcomed William Bartram to his home in 1773, giving him shelter from "A Tremendous Thunderstorm."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAK0_colonel-john-mcintosh_Townsend-GA.html
About one mile from this spot, at Fairhope, the adjoining plantation, Colonel John McIntosh, a hero of the American Revolution, was buried in 1826. It was Colonel McIntosh, in command of Fort Morris at Sunbury, who, when the British Lieut. Col. L.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAJO_captain-william-mcintosh_Townsend-GA.html
In this plot under the "Great Oak at Mallow Plantation," Captain William McIntosh, father of the Indian chief, General William McIntosh, was buried in 1794. Captain McIntosh, an officer in the British army, when stationed in the Creek country, mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAHF_skirmish-in-bulltown-swamp_Townsend-GA.html
In November of 1778, Lieut. Col. James Mark Prevost, with 100 British Regulars, and 300 Refugees and Indians under McGirth, crossed the Altamaha River and moved into Georgia, killing or taking prisoner all men they found, and ravaging the plantati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7X5_sutherlands-bluff_Townsend-GA.html
Sutherland`s Bluff, about 1.5 miles South on this road, overlooks the Sapelo River and the Inland Waterway. the site was named for Lieut. Patrick Sutherland, to whom it was granted, upon recommendation of General James Edward Oglethorpe, in recogn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7F4_old-belleville-or-troup-cemetery_Townsend-GA.html
Within these walls are buried Captain Troup, British Naval officer, and his wife, Catherine McIntosh Troup. They were the parents of George M. Troup, Governor Georgia 1823-1827; U.S. Senator 1829-1833. It was on this plantation that Georgia M. Tro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7DH_mallow-plantation_Townsend-GA.html
This plantation was a Crown grant to Captain John McIntosh, a British Army officer who served in Florida during the War with Spain. Later, when this officer went into the Indian country, his brother, the eccentric Captain Roderick (Rory) McIntosh,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7A9_john-houstoun-mcintosh_Townsend-GA.html
John Houstoun McIntosh, son of George McIntosh, was born at Rice Hope, May 1, 1773. When a young man, he settled in East Florida and became a leader of the U.S. citizens living there. He was appointed "Governor or Director of the Republic of Flori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM77G_rice-hope_Townsend-GA.html
Famous Rice and Indigo Plantation of Colonial and Revolutionary times, Rice Hope was the home of George McIntosh, son of John McIntosh Mor of Darien, and brother of General Lachlan McIntosh. George McIntosh was Official Surveyor for St. Andrew`s P…
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