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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BWG_methodism-came-to-waycross_Waycross-GA.html
This church, known as Junction on the Blackshear Ct., began with three women members. Its first building was erected in 1874. A full-time pastor came in 1884. By 1892 the 500 members began a new brick building at this site of many "tent revivals".…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZWL_vereen-bell-highway_Waycross-GA.html
This access road into the great Okefenokee Swamp was named by the Georgia Legislature (1946) in memory of VEREEN BELL, Lt. USNR, young Georgia patriot and writer, who by his novel "SWAMP WATER" gave to the world insights into this unique area, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZUN_okefenokee-swamp_Waycross-GA.html
Okefenokee Swamp, 400,000 acres of waterways, swamp prairies and floating islands is a region of many legends. Here DeSoto's men told of trees that turned to warriors, Indians hunted and fished in its fastnesses and fled to safety on its islands f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZUM_the-wildes-massacre_Waycross-GA.html
Here, on a Sunday morning in July, 1832, seven members of the Wildes Settlement were murdered by an Indian raiding party from the Okefenokee Swamp. Six of the victims were of the Wildes family, one was a 12-year-old girl of the Wilkinsons. Five ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG91_waycross-confederate-monument_Waycross-GA.html
(South face)1861 - 1865[Crossed flags]Confederate Dead
(East face)The impartial enlightened verdict of mankind willvindicate the rectitudeof our conduct,and he who knows thehearts of men, will judgethe sincerity with whichwe labored to preserv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFTP_ware-county-georgia-world-war-i-memorial_Waycross-GA.html
Spirit of the American DoughboyDedicated to the memory of our comradeswho entered the serviceof thier countryfrom Ware Countyand who gave their livesin the World War
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFSQ_ware-court-house_Waycross-GA.html
Ware County was created out of a portion of Appling County by an Act of Dec. 25, 1824. It was named for United States Senator Nicholas Ware. Early in 1825 an Inferior Court was created, made up of Justices William Smith, Solomon Hall, John L. Stew…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFSP_senator-nicholas-ware_Waycross-GA.html
This county proudly bears the name of a United States Senator from Georgia.
Senator Nicholas Ware was born in Virginia in 1769, a son of Capt. Robert Ware, of the Revolutionary Army. Senator Ware moved to Augusta when a child, and was educated …