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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116W_burnt-church_Lakeland-GA.html
First known as Carter's Meeting HouseLand donated by Jesse CarterUnion Primitive Baptist ChurchConstituted October 1, 1825Burnt and rebuilt 1854Known thereafter as Burnt ChurchRestored April 1998Project Manager M. A. Studstill, Jr. Given by the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116V_union-church-cemetery_Lakeland-GA.html
To glorify God and to honor those who rest here many of whom were members of Union Church established in 1825 Land given by Isaac Carter Union Church burned in 1854 Since then it has been commonly called "Burnt Church" Placed in 199…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZQ_joshua-lee_Lakeland-GA.html
Joshua Lee built the first grist mill on this location in c1830 in what was Lowndes County. He owned five and one half land lots (2.690 acres) which were not yet free of Indians. He built a low-level dam across a stream flowing through his propert…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIPV_union-baptist-church_Lakeland-GA.html
Union Baptist Church, on the Alapaha River one-half mile West on this road, was constituted October 21, 1825, the first church in the old area of IrwinCounty. The original members were: William A. Knight, his wife, Sarah; Jonathan Knight, his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI2C_lanier-county_Lakeland-GA.html
This County created by Acts of the Legislature of Aug. 11, 1919 & Aug. 7, 1920 is named for Sidney Lanier, poet of Georgia. Lanier was born in Macon Feb. 3, 1842 and practiced law there with his father after graduating from Oglethorpe Univ. then a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7H_home-of-governor-e-d-rivers_Lakeland-GA.html
Eurith Dickinson Rivers was governor of Georgia from 1937 to 1941. He actively supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Program. Rivers' innovative leadership produce Georgia's first Department of Public Welfare, free school books, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9IY_fender-cemetery_Lakeland-GA.html
A short distance East on this road is Fender Cemetery, in which are buried many of the first settlers of the area of old Lowndes County lying East of the Alabama River, from Union Church. This location for the Cemetery was chosen because of the in…
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