| Georgia (Morgan County), Apalachee — Apalachee |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County places this Marker here to commemorate the community of Apalachee The name Apalachee is derived from the Indian Tribe that was part of the Creek Confederation, though there is no evidence that this tribe had ever settled in this area. The town of Apalachee was incorporated by the Georgia Legislature in 1907. However, this community has roots that are much older. The area around Apalachee was settled prior to 1820 and is considered to be . . . — Map (db m13418) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Bostwick — Bostwick |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Bostwick
Named in honor of the family who contributed substantially to the economic success of the community, Bostwick was incorporated by the Georgia legislature in 1902. By 1897, before it was incorporated, this community had a strong civic center including two cotton gins, grist mill, post office, doctor’s office, bank, and hotel. Although Bostwick was approximately 10 . . . — Map (db m16220) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Bostwick — Mallory |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
MALLORY
The early tax records of Morgan County identify the family of "Malry" in the Harris Militia District as early as the 1840s. By the turn of the twentieth century, the community of Mallory existed in the area owned by this family. By 1897, the Mallory community boasted a church, Mallory Chapel, and a school, Mallory School. By 1911, a second school, Longs Academy, . . . — Map (db m20459) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Buckhead — Buckhead |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Buckhead
One of the earliest settlements in Morgan County, the area around Buckhead was still in close proximity to Native American Territory in the early 1800s. According to local lore, a group of hunters tracking game crossed the Oconee River from Greene County and found this area to be ideal for settlement. To attest to their good fortune, the head of a buck deer killed by . . . — Map (db m16136) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Buckhead — 104-5 — Federal Raid |
| | On Saturday, November 19, 1864, Federal troops under Gen. Geary, Sherman’s 20th Army Corps, drove a small detachment of Confederate soldiers out of Buckhead, ate dinner and then destroyed the water tank, all railroad buildings and a large supply of cordwood. Moving out of Buckhead, the Federals destroyed the railroad to the Oconee River, there burning the bridge and railroad supplies. They destroyed gins and mills, 330 bales of cotton and 50,000 bushels of corn. That night they camped at Blue . . . — Map (db m16144) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Buckhead — 104-4 — Park Home and Site of Park’s Mill |
| | This house, built in early 1800 and used as a stagecoach stop, was located on Seven Islands Road which ran from Philadelphia to New Orleans. On Nov. 20, 1864, Federal raiders under Gen. Geary destroyed the nearby mill and ferry. At the request of Mrs. Park, the house and contents were not molested though everything was taken from the yard and smokehouse. A Negro servant, Cyrus Park, by using wet blankets on the roof, saved the house from flying embers from the mill. Pres. Jefferson Davis is . . . — Map (db m17265) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Buckhead — Park's Mill |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Park’s Mill
The construction of Park’s Mill is thought to be contemporary with the creation of Morgan County by act of the Georgia Legislature in 1807. It was created on the banks of the Oconee River on land that was intermittently part of Greene County and Morgan Counties, as the county boundary in this area shifted several times during the 19th century. In 1839, it is . . . — Map (db m17274) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Buckhead — Swords |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Swords
Named in honor of the family who contributed substantially to the economic success of the community, Swords has its roots in the success of the J.B. Swords Distillery. This industrial operation was an early manufacturer of whiskey and was a contemporary to Jack Daniels Distillery. Swords developed in proximity to the community of Blue Springs, one of the earliest . . . — Map (db m16236) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Buckhead — 104-9 — The March to the Sea |
| | On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [US] into two wings. The Right Wing marched south from Atlanta, to feint at Macon but to cross the Ocmulgee River above the city and concentrate at Gordon.
The Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps), Maj. Gen. H.W. Slocum, USA, marched east to Decatur where the 20th Corps, Brig. Gen. A.S. . . . — Map (db m16210) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Godfrey — WWII B-25C Airplane Crash |
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On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the
WW II B-25C Airplane Crash
In the early afternoon of January 10, 1945, residents of the south-western portion of Morgan County were witnesses to the crash of a B-25C airplane in a field near the intersection of present- day Godfrey Road and Walton's Mill Road. The plane had taken off from Greenville Army Air Base in Greenville, South Carolina, and it was on a low altitude rendezvous . . . — Map (db m20192) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-3 — Antioch Baptist Church — >>-- 3 mi. --> |
| | Three miles from here in a grove of oaks Antioch Baptist Church was established in a primitive log cabin, Sept. 18, 1809. Soon a building 40 x 60 was erected on 4-1/2 acres of land including the original site.
In Sept. 1827, 4,000 people including many ministers attended a session of the Ocmulgee Association in the churchyard. A sermon by Antioch’s minister, Dr. Adiel Sherwood, started a revival that swept through about 22 counties bringing 16,000 converts in two years. Dr. Sherwood . . . — Map (db m16156) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Bethany |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Bethany
The community of Bethany, anchored by the Bethany Baptist Church, appears on maps after 1915. A church congregation was established before then at nearby Alliston’s Grove; however, tradition holds that they disbanded after the Civil War. In 1869, two acres of land were given from the Baldwin Estate to the Bethany Baptist Church Trustees, some of whom had previously been members . . . — Map (db m19872) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Brownwood-Centennial |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Brownwood-Centennial
Located close to one another on the Old Sandtown Road, the communities of Brownwood and Centennial may have been one and the same in their early years. The road through these communities originally developed as a stagecoach route between Augusta and Sandtown, present-day Newborn. A house served as an inn and stagecoach stop in this area. Later, the Brown . . . — Map (db m20483) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-7 — Confederate Dead |
| | Here are buried 51 unknown and one known Confederate soldier and one Negro hospital attendant. These men died of wounds or disease in the Confederate hospitals located nearby, the Stout, Blackie, Asylum, Turnbull, and some temporary ones. These hospitals operated from late 1862 to early 1865. Gallant Confederate women of this vicinity helped care for the sick and wounded men. The Federal raid here on November 18, 1864 did not molest the hospitals. — Map (db m19767) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Dorsey |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Dorsey As early as 1839, historic maps identify a community called Palestine in proximity to the community that became known as Dorsey. Located on the route traveled by the Georgia Railroad between the cities of Madison and Rutledge, Dorsey was located on the old Dixie Highway. Post office records indicate that it was a community of two- to three-hundred residents, and it boasted of a . . . — Map (db m21914) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Fairview |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of Fairview
Located south of Madison between Highway 441 South, Pierce Dairy Road and Seven Islands Road, the Fairview community grew up between the localities of Bethany and Godfrey. Fairview was never incorporated; however, a strong community identity developed among this agricultural group of citizens organized around the Fairview School. This school, formerly called Mitchem’s School . . . — Map (db m19944) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Flat Rock |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Flat Rock
Identified with the Flat Rock Church and School that existed in the early 20th century, Flat Rock has African American roots that extend back many generations. This area located around present day Bostwick Highway, Sandy Creek Road, and Nolan Store Road in the Harris Militia District, has long had an agricultural character, which included the cultivation of cotton, . . . — Map (db m17567) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Freedmen's Schooling |
| | In 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands began assistance to former slaves. While efforts at educating freed slaves were strongest in Georgia's larger cities and towns, State Superintendent of Freedmen's Schools G.L. Eberhardt recognized the need to expand to rural areas.
Two years later, Eberhardt rented for a school the Madison Baptist congregation's former church on Academy Street (which was also rented to their black brethren who had formed Calvary Baptist Church . . . — Map (db m25574) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Godfrey |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Godfrey
The town of Godfrey was incorporated by the Georgia Legislature on July 25, 1906. However, this community has much older roots. Local lore places the earliest geographic reference to a community in this area called Hamburg. By the early 1800s the community was known as Antioch, for the original Antioch church built there around 1809. By 1839 the area was known as . . . — Map (db m16176) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-1 — Joshua Hill Home — — 1 block→ |
| | 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 Unionist principles, he was drawn into the American or Know-Nothing party when the Whig party in Ga. collapsed and was elected to Congress in 1856, defeating Linton Stephens. An outspoken opponent of secession, Hill resigned his seat in 1861 rather than . . . — Map (db m9127) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Madison |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Madison
Named in honor of U.S. President James Madison, the town of Madison was established as the permanent seat of Morgan County and incorporated December 12, 1809. Surveyor Lewis MacLean laid out the community using a typical Washington-type plan, characterized by a central public square defined by four principal streets - Monroe (now Main), Jefferson, Washington, and . . . — Map (db m16233) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-1 — Oliver Hardy, Genius of Comedy |
| | Oliver Norvell Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy, lived in the Turnell-Butler Hotel which once stood on this corner. He was born in Harlem, Georgia, on January 18, 1892. The family was in Madison by that February, and may have moved here earlier. Mrs. Hardy later opened a hotel in Madison named The Hardy House. Oliver began his education at age six at the Madison Grammar School. Mrs. Hardy and her children left Madison in October 1898. Oliver Hardy died in 1957 and is buried in . . . — Map (db m15372) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Pennington |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Pennington
The Pennington Community was named for the Pennington family who first acquired land from ceded Native American territories. In 1784 as recognition for his service in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, Thomas Pennington was given a land grant of 287 ½ acres in the then Washington County.
By the year 1882, Pennington had both a post office . . . — Map (db m16246) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Reconstruction Property Rights |
| | Georgia's General Assembly of 1865-1866 passed important property rights laws for its black population, most of whom had recently been emancipated. Blacks could legally buy, sell, inherit, and lease both land and personal property. The experience of John Wesley Moore (1862-1908) serves as an example of emerging African-American property ownership.
As a farmhand for James A. Fannin, Moore likely established his household on the Fannin Farm. In less than a decade, he acquired 9 acres of . . . — Map (db m20833) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-12 — Seven Islands Road |
| | The Seven Islands - Alabama Road - was an important emigrant route to the west. Travelers from northeast Georgia and the upper Carolinas followed this trace to the Mississippi Territory, Louisiana, and later Texas.
Originally an important link in the Oakfuskee or Upper Creek Trading Path, the Seven Islands Road became a wagon road long before the Creeks were expelled from Georgia. As an Indian trail, the Seven Islands path, crossed both the Oconee and Apalachee rivers at what is now . . . — Map (db m16223) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — Springfield |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Springfield
Identified with the Springfield Baptist Church and School that existed in the late nineteenth century. Springfield has roots in the African American community which extend back many generations. The church was originally organized in 1872, about seven years after the end of the Civil War. The land was donated for the church by Rueben Miller, and the initial church . . . — Map (db m17397) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-8 — The March to the Sea |
| | On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [US] into two wings. The Right Wing marched south from Atlanta, to feint at Macon but to cross the Ocmulgee River above the city and concentrate at Gordon.
The Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps), Maj. Gen. H. W. Slocum, USA, marched east to Decatur where the 20th Corps, Brig. Gen. A. S. . . . — Map (db m16162) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-2 — The Stoneman Raid |
| | Closing in on Atlanta in July 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, found its vast fortifications “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest.” To force an evacuation, he sent Maj. Gen. George Stoneman’s cavalry [US] (2112 men and 2 guns) to cut the Central of Georgia R.R. by which the city’s defenders [CS] were supplied. Retreating from an attempt on Macon, Stoneman was intercepted on the 31st at Sunshine Church (19 miles NE of Macon) by Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., who, . . . — Map (db m16165) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — The Town Spring |
| | Civil Engineer R.B. Tufts noted on the 1897 Morgan County map that "The Public Spring . . . which for all these years has been sending forth a bold, steady stream of pure, cold water, was the cause of establishing the Court House and the public buildings, and consequently the town, at this place."
James Cunningham and Tallifero Finney each submitted springs for siting the new community. Cunningham's "round bowl spring of clear pure water" was selected. Preservation of public springs . . . — Map (db m20844) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Madison — 104-11 — William Tappan Thompson |
| | William Tappan Thompson, famous Georgia journalist and author, was born in Ohio in 1812. Moving to Augusta in 1835, he became associated with Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in the publication of the State Rights Sentinel. In 1838 he founded a literary journal, the Mirror, which in 1842 was merged with a Macon periodical, the Family Companion, to become the Family Companion and Ladies’ Mirror. The first Major Jones letter appeared in one of the last issues of this journal.
In 1843 Thompson . . . — Map (db m16442) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Rutledge — Fairplay |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Fairplay
One of the older communities in Morgan County, Fairplay is identified on county maps as early as 1839. Fairplay did not have railroad line in the community, but it appears to have developed on an old post road. Post office records from the 1880s identify the community as a village with about 40 inhabitants.
In addition to a store and post office, Fairplay also had a . . . — Map (db m19931) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Rutledge — Hard Labor Creek State Park |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate
Hard Labor Creek State Park
This park was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal program sponsored by President Roosevelt. It was administered as a division of the U.S. Army to reclaim unusable farm land, create recreational areas, and teach young men a skill or trade. Enlistees of the CCC were paid about $30 for a six-month enlistment, $25 of which was . . . — Map (db m17574) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Rutledge — Reese |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of Reese
Originally, the community of Reese was known as Ebenezer, and it has been identified as a community that grew up along an old post road near the Little River. As early as 1839, historic maps identify the community as Ebenezer in Durdin’s Militia District, and it isn't until around the turn of the century that it comes to be known as Reese. An application for a new post office . . . — Map (db m19934) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Rutledge — Rutledge |
| | On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of
Rutledge
In the 1840s, the heirs of Hezekiah Rutledge deeded right-of-way to the Georgia Railroad. The farm came to be referred to as "Rutledge Place” by the railroad workers, which probably gave rise to referring to the town as "Rutledge." In the early years of the railroad, Rutledge served as the terminus of the line, and a turn table (or round house) was located here . . . — Map (db m17303) |
| Georgia (Morgan County), Rutledge — 104-10 — The March to the Sea |
| | On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah - the March to the Sea. He divided his army [US] into two wings. The Right Wing marched south from Atlanta, to feint at Macon but to cross the Ocmulgee River above the city and concentrate at Gordon. The Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps), Maj. Gen. H. W. Slocum, USA, marched east through Decatur, the 20th Corps, Brig. Gen. A. S. . . . — Map (db m16163) |
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