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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11YI_gragg-lumber-company_Attapulgus-GA.html
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In 1926, brothers John, Earl, Wayne and Gilbert Gragg came from North Carolina to establish a sawmill six tenths of a mile north of here on the east side of Amsterdam Road. As the Gragg Lumber Co., they leased cutting rights on 16,00…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11YH_amsterdam-georgia-shade-grown-tobacco_Attapulgus-GA.html
(Side 1):Amsterdam, GeorgiaIn 1891, A. Cohn & Co. purchased 14,000 acres for tobacco cultivation and named it Amsterdam. At that time, the property was the largest tobacco plantation in the world under one ownership. In 1907, seven of the larger g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11XI_steamboats_Bainbridge-GA.html
(Side 1):In 1827 the Fanny was the first of more than 220 steamboats to visit Bainbridge and ply the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system. These boats docked at the city's landings below the high bluff on the Flint River. Bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11W8_brinson-simeon-brinson_Brinson-GA.html
(Side 1): Brinson
First settled in the 1850's present day Brinson was originally known as Spring Creek. The name was changed in 1889 when the town was laid out and established by Simeon Brinson. In that same year the Alabama Midland Railroad co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VP_cyrene-cyrene-institute_Brinson-GA.html
(Side 1): Cyrene
Approximately 1.6 miles north of this location is the village of Cyrene. Founded about 1890 by C. S. Hodges and W. G. Powell, Cyrene was typical of the many mill towns established along the railroad to utilize the vast forest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VF_charles-james-munnerlyn-refuge_Bainbridge-GA.html
(Side 1):Charles James Munnerlyn 1822 ~ 1898
As a delegate to the Georgia Convention at Milledgeville, he voted for secession. After the start of the Civil War, he volunteered as a private. When his health failed he returned home and was electe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11UW_ira-sanborn_Bainbridge-GA.html
Decatur County's first industrialist was Ira Sanborn, a native of Concord, New Hampshire. Born in 1799, Sanborn came to Apalachicola, Florida about 1830 and later resettled in Quincy, Florida where he married Susan Woodson. In 1833 they moved to D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11UT_de-soto-trail_Bainbridge-GA.html
In this neighborhood Hernando de Soto and his army discovered the inland waters of the Flint river ("the River of Capachequi") on Friday, March 5, 1540. Leaving the vicinity of the present Tallahassee, Florida, the Spaniards marched northwest, spe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11US_el-camino-real_Bainbridge-GA.html
In this vicinity was the Indian trail which, during the period of Spanish occupation, became known as El Camino Real or King's Highway. This road, connecting St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida, crossed the Flint River at the trading post of Jame…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11UA_fort-scott-memorial_Bainbridge-GA.html
This monument was originally located in Land Lot Number 224 in the 21st District of Decatur County, Georgia, 16 miles southwest of Bainbridge and on the site of Fort Scott built in 1816 and abandoned in 1821.
It was removed to its present loca…