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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IL_african-american-pioneers-of-the-marsh-warthen-clements-house_LaFayette-GA.html
The Marsh-Warthen-Clements House was hand built by enslaved African Americans in an African cultural style known as the "Shot Gun." Slaves traveled with Marsh from North Carolina and Covington, Georgia to LaFayette. African Americans served in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IK_walker-county_LaFayette-GA.html
Created December 18, 1833, and named for Major Freeman Walker of Augusta, prominent attorney and United States Senator. Here the fierce Chickamaugas preyed upon pioneers, and were in turn defeated and driven away; here Federals and Confederates lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8C0_fort-cumming_LaFayette-GA.html
Here stood a Cherokee Indian stockade with blockhouse on hill, built by U.S. Government in 1836.
Capt. Samuel Fariss and a company of Georgia volunteers guarded Cherokee Indians here before their removal to the west.
This fort was presumably…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM86V_old-federal-road_Rossville-GA.html
The first vehicular and postal route of Georgia to Rossville was the Federal Road across the Cherokee Nation. Beginning on the southeast Indian boundary in the direction of Athens, Georgia, the thoroughfare led this way toward Nashville via Tate, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM86S_john-ross-home_Rossville-GA.html
This comfortable two-story log house was the home of Cherokee Chief John Ross from boyhood until he went west over the "Trail of Tears," losing his Indian wife enroute. Although only one-eighth Indian himself, Ross was the elected "Principal Chief…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7YA_crawfish-spring_Chickamauga-GA.html
Crawfish Spring was the first name given to the modern community Chickamauga, Georgia. Cherokees lived in this area before their forced removal in 1838, with their Chickamauga District courthouse located near the spring. In the 1840s an early whit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7QY_william-little-house_Summerville-GA.html
Confederate Major General John Bell Hood was brought to this house to recuperate following the amputation of his right leg due to a wound received on September 20, 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga. Colonel Francis (Frank) Little, 11th Georgia Inf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7QJ_gowans-gowers-ford-and-widow-glenns-grave_Chickamauga-GA.html
In mid-September 1863, General John M. Palmer's division of the 21st Army Corps was assigned to the duty of guarding the fords on West Chickamauga Creek. A primary Federal objective was keeping the Confederates on the east side of the creek while …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7QI_catletts-gap_LaFayette-GA.html
Pigeon Mountain is a rugged spur of Lookout Mountain, extending in a northeasterly direction into Walker County. The space between it and Lookout Mountain is McLemore's Cove. During the war, wagon roads passed from east to west through the mountai…