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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12OU_the-infantry-board_Cusseta-GA.html
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On 15 December 1919, War Department Orders established the Infantry Board as a development and testing laboratory with permanent station at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Board's mission was to consider, with continuity of effort, the impro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6G_old-federal-road_Cusseta-GA.html
The Old Federal Road, which intersected the Chattahoochee River at this natural fording site, was originally a Lower Creek Indian Nation trading path. With the advent of colonization, it became one of western Georgia's earliest and most important …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ34_chattahoochee-county-jail_Cusseta-GA.html
Side 1:This jail is situated on property that was purchased soon after the county was created on February 13, 1854. Mr. Asbury Bryan was paid $1,250 for the original two-story log jail that was completed by July 20, 1855, under the supervision of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ03_chattahoochee-county_Cusseta-GA.html
Chattahoochee County, created by Act of February 13, 1854, was cut off from Muscogee and Marion Counties. It was named for the Chattahoochee River. Its courthouse, constructed in 1854, was built of select heart lumber from the Long Leaf Pine by sl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ00_kasihta-cusseta_Cusseta-GA.html
Kashita, "the Peace Town of the Lower Creeks," one of two great Muskogee towns in the Creek Confederation of Indians, stood on the site of the Generals' Headquarters at Fort Benning. Kashita, mentioned in the narrative of Desoto's expedition in 15…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPYU_cusseta-school_Cusseta-GA.html
On this site, a brick school building was erected in 1911 on land purchased from G. W. King, Sr. A resolution was passed on June 6, 1922 to consolidate Big Sandy, Liberty Hill, Renfroe, and Providence Schools with Cusseta. In 1929, all high school…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9QV_gowdy-field_Cusseta-GA.html
Named in honor of Sgt Hank Gowdywho put his major league careeron hold to join the infantry andserve the nation in WWI
Rededicated 29 April 2005
Fort Benning Soldiers and family membersCal Ripken,Jr.BG Benjamin Freakley ? ? ? Gary Hensley
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9F8_505th-parachute-infantry_Cusseta-GA.html
This marker commemorates the activation on 6 July 1942 of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Frying Pan area near here. Lieutenant Colonel James M. Gavin was the first commander.
Assigned to the 82d Airborne Division in February 1943,…