| Georgia (Burke County), Alexander — 017-17 — Sherman's Left Wing | | | On Dec. 4, 1864, Kilpatrick`s cavalry division [Union] of Gen. Sherman`s army, supported by two brigades of Baird`s infantry division of the 14th Corps, drove units of Wheeler`s cavalry corps [Confederate] out of Waynesboro and across Brier Creek in order to burn the bridges over that stream. Baird`s third brigade, with the division trains, remained at Thomas` Station (6 miles S of Waynesboro) to finish destroying three miles of railroad, then marched to Alexander and encamped. It was joined . . . — Map (db m7959) | | Georgia (Burke County), Munnerlyn — Site of Planters Electric Membership Corporation Organizational Meeting | | | On August 5, 1936, an organizational meeting of the Planters Electric Membership Corporation was held in the Bellevue Plantation commissary building. Those present and elected to become officers were Porter W.
Carswell, President; Frank M. Cates, Vice-President; Joel Chappell, Secretary-Treasurer; and John Reese. The Planters Electric Membership Corporation was officially incorporated on November 12, 1936 thus being the third cooperative to be formed in Georgia and only the seventeenth in the United States — Map (db m13125) | | Georgia (Burke County), Munnerlyn — 017-12 — The 14th Corps at Lumpkin's Station | | | On Dec. 3, 1864, after a hard march across Buckhead, Rocky Beaver Dam and Rosemary creeks from camps N. of Birdsville and W. of Buckhead Church, the 14th Corps [US], Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, [US] (less Baird's division) camped at Lumpkin's station (Munnerlyn). 0.6 miles E. on the Augusta and Savannah Railroad, Baird`s division, on the left of Gen. Sherman's army as it moved toward Savannah, had marched via Rock
Creek Church (5 miles S.W. of Waynesboro) to support Kilpatrick's cavalry division . . . — Map (db m13119) | | Georgia (Burke County), Sardis — 017-1 — Old Quaker Road | | | This highway has been following closely the course of the Old Quaker Road, one of Georgia's earliest vehicular thoroughfares. It was opened about 1769 to link Savannah, the colonial capital, with a Quaker settlement centering around Wrightsboro in today's upper McDuffie County.
The Quaker Road was one of the longest and most important routes of the Province of Georgia. At this point the original way bore left for a stretch. It rejoins this road some miles to the north. — Map (db m7992) | | Georgia (Burke County), Sardis — Original Site Sardis Baptist Church | | | Erected 1810
Rebuilt 1847
Dismantled 1940 and material used in erecting pastorium in Sardis.
Originally Beech Branch Meeting House constituted in 1803. — Map (db m12491) | | Georgia (Burke County), Sardis — 124-21 — Sardis Baptist Church | | | On Sept. 28, 1803, a group of men living in Burke County near Beech Branch Meeting House, "found to be in the true Baptist faith", by a presbytery of Rev. Henry Hand and Rev. John Ross, were constituted into one Body as a Baptist Church. A church covenant was adopted. William Thompson Sr. and Stephen Murray Sr. were made deacons. Original members were Stephen Murray Sr., William Thompson Sr., Thomas Tipton, William L. Mobley, Nicholas Thomas, Jeremiah Kimbal, Jacob Taylor Jr., Jacob . . . — Map (db m18718) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 017-3 — Botsford Church - 1773 — → | | | Botsford Church, Constituted in 1773 by the Rev. Edmund Botsford, was the second Baptist church in Georgia. Originally located 25 miles below Augusta, known as the New Savannah Church, it was moved about 10 miles to this place after the Revolution. This
building,erected about 1875, replaced the first church which burned. The old minute book contains a list of members and a resolution memorializing those who died in Confederate service. Rev. Botsford, born in England, a vigorous missionary, . . . — Map (db m13116) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 017-6 — Burke County | | | Burke County, an original county, was created by the Const. of Feb. 5, 1777, from Creek Cession of May 30, 1733. In 1758, it had been organized as the Parish of St. George. Originally, it contained parts of Jefferson, Jenkins and Screven Counties. Burke County was named for Edmund Burke (1729-1797), writer, member of Parliament and eloquent defender of the cause of the colonies in America. Lemuel Lanier was commissioned Sheriff, Jan. 27, 1778. Thos. Burton, David Lewis, Nathan Hooker, Dan. . . . — Map (db m7856) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 017-8 — Burke County's 8 Governors | | | Historic Burke County, formerly St. George`s Parish, claims 8 Ga. Governors by birth, residence or marriage. JOHN HOUSTOUN (1744-1796), Rev. patriot, member of Continental Congress, Gov. 1778-1779 & 1784-1785, was born near present Waynesboro. LYMAN HALL (1724-1790), Ga. signer of the Declaration of Independence, Gov. 1783-1874, died at his plantation home, Shell Bluff, in Burke Co. EDWARD TELFAIR (1735-1807), member of Continental Congress, signer of Articles of Confederation, Gov. 1785-1787 & . . . — Map (db m7867) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — Colonels Twiggs and Few | | | In Honor Of The Men Under Command
Of Colonel Twiggs And Colonel Few
Who Victoriously Defended The
Cause Of The American Revolution
At The Battle Of Burke Jail
In 1779
Erected by the Georgia Society and the Edmund Burke Chapter Daughters Of The American Revolution Of Waynesboro, Georgia
February 2, 1927 — Map (db m7902) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — Lost Burke County Men S.S. Otranto | | | This tablet is placed to perpetuate
the memory of Burke County (Ga) men who, in the
service of their country in the World War,
lost their lives in the sinking of the
S.S. OTRANTO, October 6th 1918
Wm. Broadus Carter, Wm. D. Herrington
Augustus Frazier, Jasper H. Morris
Marion Hankinson, Edwin A. Smith, Jr.
Aaron Weeks — Map (db m7900) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 017-2 — Old Quaker Road | | | The highway bearing left is the Old Quaker road, on of Georgia's earliest vehicular highways. It was opened about 1769 to provide a direct way from Savannah to a Quaker settlement centering around Wrightsboro in today's upper McDuffie County.
The Quaker road was one of the longest and most important routes of colonial Georgia. Much of the original way remains in use. — Map (db m8022) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 25 B-4 — Shell Bluff | | | Shell Bluff on the Savannah River 15 miles northeast has been famous since Indian days because of its outcrops of fossil shells including those of giant
oysters. These lived in the Eocene sea that covered this part of Georgia some 50 million years ago. Shell Bluff has been visited and described by many famous travelers and geologists including Bartram in 1791, Vanuxem in 1828, Conrad in 1834, and Sir Charles Lyell in 1842. — Map (db m13134) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 017-16 — The Cavalry Actions at Waynesboro | | | Late on Nov. 26, 1864, elements of the 3rd Cavalry Division [USA], Brig. Gen. J.L. Kilpatrick, USA, of Gen. Sherman`s army, reached the railroad bridge north of Waynesboro and partially burned it before being driven off by troops of the Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee [CSA], Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA. Next day, Kilpatrick entered Waynesboro and destroyed a train of cars and much private property before being driven from the town by Wheeler, who attacked his camp south of Waynesboro at dawn . . . — Map (db m7903) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 17-1 — Washington’s Southern Tour | | | Traveling from Savannah to Augusta on his Southern tour of 1791, President George Washington stopped in Waynesboro on May 17. Departing from Savannah two days earlier, Washington lodged at "one Spencers " in Effingham County, fifteen miles north of Nathanael Greene`s Mulberry Grove plantation. Journeying through modern-day Screven County the next day, he traveled six miles out of his way to visit the city named for General Anthony Wayne, who served with Washington during the Revolution. He . . . — Map (db m7800) | | Georgia (Burke County), Waynesboro — 017-10 — Waynesborough | | | On July 31, 1783, an Act was passed by the General Assembly meeting in Augusta to lay out a town, Waynesborough, on reserved or private land. Commissioners named (Thomas Lewis, Sr., Thomas Lewis, Jr., John Duhart, Edward Telfair, John Jones) were instructed to sell lots on John Thomas' land on the waters of McIntosh Creek, where the Battle of Burke's Jail was fought.
"By virtue of an Act of July 31, 1783," an indenture was made on June 9, 1799 between Commissioners Isaac Perry, Alexander . . . — Map (db m7868) |
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