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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KH_two-early-augusta-churches_Augusta-GA.html
St. John Methodist Church was founded in 1798 by Stith Mead, a young Virginia minister who denounced the worldliness of fun-loving Augusta. Biship Francis Asbury visited the church and watched its growth with particular interest. Augustus B. Lonst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6KD_railroads_Augusta-GA.html
Business interests in Charleston, South Carolina financed the construction of America's first commercial railroad in 1833 in an effort to capture a greater share of the upland cotton, was formerly transported by raft or steamboat to Savannah, Char…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6K8_the-veterans-of-1898-1902_Augusta-GA.html
"You Triumphed Over ObstaclesWhich Would Have Overcome MenLess Brave And Determined"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???President McKinley Dedicated toThe Veterans Of 1898 to 1902by Department of Georgia National AuxiliaryUnited Spanish War VeteransAt the T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6JQ_u-s-marshall-robert-forsyth_Augusta-GA.html
Robert Forsyth was the first law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. Captain of Light Dragoons in Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee's cavalry during the Revolutionary War, Forsyth had been appointed the first marshal for the District of Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6J3_the-first-baptist-church_Augusta-GA.html
In March 1817, eight men and two women meeting in an Augusta home formed "The Baptist Praying Society of Augusta" - the forerunner of the First Baptist Church. Two months later the society was constituted a church under the leadership of the first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6J0_first-baptist-church-convention_Augusta-GA.html
On this site May 8, 1845The Southern Baptist Conventionwas organizedby 327 delegates from the states ofMaryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisana, Kentucky and District of Columbia.———The follo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6IH_colonel-william-few-jr_Augusta-GA.html
[Marker Front]:One of Georgia's two signers of the United States Constitution. Born in Baltimore, Maryland June 18, 1748. Lieutenant Colonel, Georgia Militia during the American Revolution, 1776-1770. Representative, Georgia General Assembly 1777,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6IF_james-ryder-randall_Augusta-GA.html
"Better the fire upon thee roll,Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,Than Crucifixion of the soul,Maryland! My Maryland!"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6IB_historic-site-in-journalism_Augusta-GA.html
The Augusta Chronicle is the South'soldest surviving newspaper, incontinuous publication. TheChronicle was founded on September30, 1786. It dates its origins backto August 30, 1785 and the foundingof The Augusta Gazette which laterbecame part of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6I4_birthplace-of-the-augusta-chronicle_Augusta-GA.html
On this site August 30, 1785, Greenburg Hughes published Augusta`s first newspaper, the Augusta Gazette, which continued, after he went to Charleston, until September 30, 1786, when John Erdman Smith, State Printer, began publishing the Georgia St…
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