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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN4M_putnam-county_Eatonton-GA.html
Putnam County was created by Act of Dec. 10, 1807 out of Baldwin County. Among the prominent men born in Putnam County were Joel Chandler Harris and L. Q. C. Lamar. It was named for General Israel Putnam (1718-1790), Massachusetts hero of the Revo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN4I_george-claud-adams_Eatonton-GA.html
G.C. Adams, leading educator in Georgia, was born in Newton County in 1868. He became Newton County School Superintendent in 1902, after several years of teaching. While Superintendent he worked to consolidate the county schools, a pioneer achieve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN35_georgia-4-h-center_Eatonton-GA.html
This Georgia 4-H Center is a tribute to former members and an educational training center for all future members.
Georgia 4-H Club work, with its equal training of the Head, Heart, Hands and Health, started in 1905 with 151 boys, each growing o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMSS_rock-eagle-mound_Eatonton-GA.html
One mile west of this point is a stone mound believed to have been constructed by prehistoric Indians before Columbus discovered America. The mound is composed of white quartz rocks, forming the shape of a bird in flight with its head turned towar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOM_site-of-john-c-masons-dwelling-house_Eatonton-GA.html
(Side 1):John C. Mason, native of S.C., came to Putnam Co. from Hancock Co. with his wife Abigail and several small children. He bought this lot, Square E lot 4, on the first day lots were sold in Eatonton, April 15, 1808. He was a unique citizen.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOJ_branch-bank-of-the-state-of-georgia-at-eatonton_Eatonton-GA.html
In the Dec. 4, 1818 Georgia Journal directors of the Bank of the State of Georgia at Savannah announced a meeting on Jan. 1, 1819 to appoint 7 directors and a cashier for the branches established at Eatonton and Greensborough. Branch Banks were al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGU9_uncle-remus-museum_Eatonton-GA.html
This memorial to Joel Chandler Harris, born in Eatonton Dec. 9, 1848, was constructed from three slave cabins found in Putnam County. Uncle Remus Museum, Inc., a local non-profit organization of dedicated citizens established and has maintained it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGU8_turnwold-plantation_Eatonton-GA.html
Here, from 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus", lived and worked as a printer's apprentice on what was probably the only newspaper ever printed on a Southern plantation, "The Countryman," a weekly newspaper edited and publi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME91_the-town-well-shelter_Eatonton-GA.html
This well shelter was probably built in 1839 when James Wright fulfilled his contract to dig a new well and build a well shelter on the public square for one hundred and fifty dollars. In 1902 a public drinking fountain was installed on the public…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9ZP_concord-methodist-church_Eatonton-GA.html
The oldest Methodist Church west of the Oconee River, Concord, first called Victory, was established in 1810, when William B. Pritchard and Thomas Johnston built a little log church on the Stage Coach Line from Milledgeville to Athens, on land don…