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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11TS_camp-recovery_Bainbridge-GA.html
This medical camp was established on September 15, 1820 by the Southeastern Army of the United States headquartered at Fort Scott. It was used as a recuperation area for soldiers who had contracted malaria and dysentery in the swampy environs of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RR_first-united-methodist-church_Bainbridge-GA.html
Founded in 1823, title to this property was conveyed to the church in 1830 by the Inferior Court, Bainbridge. An initial building was erected about 1840 and was also used during the 1850's for services by Baptists and Presbyterians. In 1854 an enl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11O4_camp-recovery_Bainbridge-GA.html
On the east side of Flint River, twenty-one miles southwest is the site of Camp Recovery, established during the First Seminole Indian War as a hospital base to which the sick soldiers from Fort Scott were sent to recover. A Federal Monument on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11O2_village-of-fowltown_Bainbridge-GA.html
In this vicinity stood the Seminole village of Fowltown, scene of battle, Nov. 21, 1817, which marked the beginning of the First Seminole Indian War. The engagement resulted when Major Twiggs with 250 soldiers from Fort Scott attempted to arrest i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11K3_fort-scott_Bainbridge-GA.html
In June 1816 Lt. Col. D. L. Clinch and a detachment of the 4th U.S. Infantry set up camp one mile west of here, calling it Camp Crawford. They began construction of a fort on the site in September 1816, naming it Fort Scott. Need for a fort was pr…