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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8B2_c-s-s-nashville_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Built by William Collyer in New York City. She wasordered by New York merchants and launched September22, 1853. Her maiden voyage was from New York toCharleston, South Carolina, under the name United StatesMail Steamship Nashville, with a cargo o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8B1_obstruction-of-river_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
To block the channel of the Ogeechee River, a double row of piling was placed across the river at a point opposite this marker.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88U_position-of-the-monitors_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
The monitors took positions against the far marsh in the direction of the arrow, between 900 and 1200 yards from the fort during the following series of attacks: by the MONTAUK, January 27, February 1, and February 28, 1863; and by the PASSAIC, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88T_columbiad_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
This replica of a coast defense cannon known as the columbiad was manufactured, 1964, by Savannah Machine and Foundry Company as a public service. A similar cannon was positioned here during Union naval attacks, 1863. The columbiad fired 87-lb. sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87N_capt-john-mccrady_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Charlestonian, a student of Agassiz at Harvard, then professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston, he resigned his position at the outbreak of the war and became an officer in the Confederate engineers. Transferred to Savannah he spent hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM826_old-river-road_Ellabell-GA.html
The highway northward is the Old River Road, one of the earliest routes west of the Ogeechee and a leading way from Savannah to Georgia`s western frontier. It followed an old Indian trial [sic] along the Ogeechee to a point west of Bartow, thence …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PH_shermans-right-wing_Ellabell-GA.html
On Dec. 6, 1864, the 15th Corps (US), the extreme right of Gen. Sherman's army on its destructive March to the Sea, camped near Jenk`s Bridge on Great Ogeechee River, east of Blitchton. On the 7th, Oliver's brigade was sent in advance of Hazen's d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7E4_destruction-of-the-c-s-s-nashville_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
The swift Confederate blockade runner Nashville ( renamed Rattlesnake) was destroyedby the monitor Montauk, February 28, 1863, after she went aground on a sandbar in a hairpin bendof the Ogeechee River. The engagement was a three- waybattle with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM783_hardwicke_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
This site on the Great Ogeechee, 14 miles from the Atlantic, was selected in 1755 by Governor John Reynolds for the capital of Georgia. He named it for his kinsman, Lord High Chancellor of England, Phillip Yorke Hardwicke. Reynolds said: "Hardwick…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5A0_fort-mcallister_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Situated at Genesis Point, 10 miles east on the right bank of the Great Ogeechee River below the "lost town" of Hardwick, this fort was the right of the exterior line designed for the defense of Savannah. It denied the use of the river to Union ve…
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