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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5TI_cullen-boney-descendants_Milan-GA.html
Cullen Boney and his wife, Phoebe Williams migrated from North Carolina and settled in the China Hill community of Telfair County in the eighteen twenties. He had three children: Mary Jane Boney Cravey, Eliza Boney Reeves and Stephen Boney. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5T3_camak-house_Athens-GA.html
On March 10, 1834, a group of Athens men met in this house, then the home of Mr. James Camak, to accept the charter of the Georgia Railroad Company and to organize the corporation. At this meeting Mr. Camak was elected its president, and he soon b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5T2_joshua-hill-home_Madison-GA.html
Joshua Hill, noted Georgian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, was born in 1812 in the Abbeville District, S.C. He studied law and come to Ga. to practice, settling in Madison after living in Monticello for a time. Having strong Whig and Unionis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5SQ_kings-bridge_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Dec. 1864. After a 300 mile march which had left a wide belt of destruction from "Atlanta to the Sea," Gen. Sherman's army (USA) of about 60,000 men was nearing Savannah. During he first weeks of his campaign, his four widely-spread columns had fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5SB_riceborough_Riceboro-GA.html
Near the old North Newport Bridge, a short distance East of here, the Court House Square for Liberty County was laid out by Act of February 1, 1797. Riceborough was then the Seat of justice for Liberty County, and a Court House and Public Building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RR_leconte-botanical-gardens_Riceboro-GA.html
Five miles west of here on the old Post Road, the southern most postal route in America, is the site of the home and botanical garden of Louis LeConte, naturalist, mathematician, and scholar, for whom the famous LeConte Pear was named. A native of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RL_the-story-of-the-bell-at-dorchester-academy_Midway-GA.html
The Midway Congregational Church bell played a very important role in the lives of Dorchester Academy students. It kept time by ringing with an echo that could be heard seven to ten miles away. The bell rang every day at six, seven, eight, nine, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RK_midway-congregational-church-1872-present_Midway-GA.html
The Old Midway Congregational Church, twomiles east on U.S. Highway 17, was formed by whites (Puritans & Congregationalists )when they settled in Liberty County. They were driven to church by their black slaveswho were allowed to sit in the church…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RI_campaign-for-atlanta-johnstons-review_Dalton-GA.html
On April 19, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston reviewed the Confederate Army of Tennessee on this ridge. After his appointment in December 1863, Johnston rebuilt a defeated and demoralized army following Confederate General Braxton Bragg's defeat a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RG_s-c-l-c-and-the-voter-education-program-1962-1970_Midway-GA.html
Citizenship Schools Dorchester Cooperative Center played a key role in the struggle for civil rights and the vote. In 1954, Septima Clarke, a school teacher from Charleston, SC and Esau Jenkins, a farmer and school bus driver from Johns Isla…
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