| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 4th Infantry (Ivy) Division — U.S. Army |
| | [East Face]:
First troops assigned to (Camp) Fort Gordon, Georgia
upon activation in 1941
Troops arrived at Camp Gordon December 1941 and
underwent rigid combat training here until April 1943.
{Ivy Leaf Cross Emblem}
Aisne - Marne Normandy
St. Mihiel Northern France
Meuse -Argonne Rhineland
Defensive Sector Ardennes
Army of Occupation Central Europe
Viet Nam
The first U.S. Troops to land on Utah Beach
Normandy France 6 June 1944-in Cherbourg - Break . . . — Map (db m10057) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — A Memorial To Eli Whitney |
| | For the invention of the
American Cotton Gin
A contribution to the resources
of civilization and to the
material welfare of
The United States
Erected by
The New England Cotton
Manufactures Association,
MDCCCCII — Map (db m10000) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — American Gold Star Mothers Tribute |
| | [North Face]:
{USN Emblem}
World War I
In loving memory
of our sons who gave
their lives
[East Face]:
{US Army Emblem}
World War II
Dedicated to the glory of God
and to the men of all
wars.
Erected By American Gold Star Mothers Inc.
Richmond County Chapter 1972
[South Face]:
{US Air Force Emblem}
Korea
In memory
and honor of
all men who have made
the supreme sacrifice
[West Face]:
{US Marine Corps Emblem}
Viet . . . — Map (db m10063) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Army National Guard |
| |
( West Face )
( Minute Man National Guard Logo )
This Monument
Placed In
Honor
Of All
National
Guardsmen
1984
( North Face )
Especially Dedicated
To The
Officers And Men
HQ & HQ Battery
A Battery
B Battery
D Battery
Med Det.
250th AAA Gun Bn (90 MM)
Georgia National Guard
Called To Active Duty
Korean War
August 14, 1950
( East Face )
I Am The Guard
Soldier in war, civilian in peace
I bled on Bunker . . . — Map (db m10085) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Augusta Confederate Monument — Our Confederate Dead |
| | [North Face]:
In Memoriam
"No Nation Rose So White
And Fair:
None Fell So Pure Of Crime"
[West Face]:
Erected
A.D. 1878
by
The Ladies
Memorial Association
of Augusta.
In Honor of the men of
Richmond County
who died
in the cause of the
Confederate States
[South Face]:
Worthy
to have lived and known
our Gratitude:
Worthy
to be hallowed and held
in tender Remembrance:
Worthy
the Fadeless Fame which
Confederate . . . — Map (db m9673) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Augusta Cotton Exchange |
| |
Organized 1872
Constructed 1886
Architect - Enoch William Brown
Contractor - William Henry Goodrich
Closed 1964
Entered in National Register of Historic Places
1978 — Map (db m9848) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-8 — Augusta State University |
| | Augusta State University traces its roots to 1783 when its parent institution, the Academy of Richmond County, was chartered. Offering college-level classes to prepare students for admission into universities as sophomores or juniors, the Academy performed the role of today's community college. A fifth year of high school, added in 1909, and a sixth year in 1925, were chartered as the Junior College of Augusta. The Junior College and Academy shared space until 1957 when the College moved to . . . — Map (db m15036) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Bell System at Augusta, Georgia |
| | [Bell System Logo]
The first telephone
exchange in the State of Georgia
was established at
Augusta, Georgia
August 1, 1879
With seventy eight subscribers,
this was only three years after
Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone.
This plaque
presented by
Dixie Chapter
Telephone Pioneers of America
March 25,1953 — Map (db m10038) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-43 — Birthplace of General Joseph Wheeler |
| | A short distance north of this place, General Joseph Wheeler was born on Sept. 10, 1836. He graduated from West Point in 1859 and held the rank of 2nd
lieutenant when the Civil War broke out. Resigning his commission in the Mounted Rifles, U.S.A., to join the Confederate Army, Wheeler was promoted within twenty-one months to major general in charge of all cavalry of the Army of Tenn. In Feb. 1865, he was commissioned lieutenant general. Wounded three times, Wheeler played prominent parts in . . . — Map (db m14829) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-35 — Birthplace of the Augusta Chronicle |
| | 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 State Gazette or Independent Register, which on April 11, 1789, became Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State; in 1819 name was changed to Augusta Chronicle and Georgia Gazette; in 1820, to Augusta Chronicle; in 1821, to Augusta Chronicle and Georgia . . . — Map (db m10092) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-1 — Bobby Jones and the Beginning of the Grand Slam |
| | On the golf links of the Forrest Hills-Ricker Hotel, Bobby Jones won the Southeastern Open of 1930. He went on to victory that year in the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur –- golf’s Grand Slam and a feat yet to be repeated. A lifelong amateur, Jones won four U.S. Opens, five U.S. Amateurs, three British Opens, and one British Amateur, but called his thirteen-shot victory in the 1930 Southeastern Open, “the best-played tournament I ever turned out in my . . . — Map (db m21288) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-18 — Boyhood Home of Woodrow Wilson |
| | Woodrow Wilson, later to become 27th President of the United States, lived in this Manse of the First Presbyterian Church of which his father, Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, was pastor from 1858 to 1870. Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., in 1856 and he later attended the University of Virginia Law School, graduating in 1881 having previously graduated from Princeton University. He practiced law in Atlanta and in 1885 was married in the Manse of the Savannah Independent Presbyterian Church to Ellen . . . — Map (db m9856) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-3 — Church Of The Most Holy Trinity — Established in 1810 |
| | The current sanctuary was constructed from 1857-63 and is one of the oldest Catholic Church buildings in Georgia. It was designed by J.R. Niernsee, architect of the State House in Columbia, South Carolina. The original 1814 structure served as the Sisters of Mercy hospital and orphanage during the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1839 and 1854. It was again used as their hospital during the Civil War. Father Abram Ryan (1838-1886), " poet-priest of the Confederacy," edited The Banner of the South, a . . . — Map (db m9993) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Colonel William Few, Jr. |
| | [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, 1779, 1783, 1793.
Delegate, Continental Congress 1780-1788.
Delegate, Constitutional Convention and Signer of the United States Constitition for Georgia, 1787.
Member, Georgia Convention to ratify the United States . . . — Map (db m10108) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Curtis Baptist Church — Augusta, Georgia |
| |
Organized
January 7, 1876
Centennial Observance
January 11, 1976
"Preaching Christ
the hope of all mankind" — Map (db m9637) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-50 — De Soto In Georgia |
| | In May 1539 Hernando de Soto landed in Florida with over 600 people, 220 horses and mules, and a herd of swine reserved for famine. Fired by his success in Pizarro's conquest of Peru, De Soto had been granted the rights, by the King of Spain, to explore, then govern, southeastern North America. After wintering in Tallahassee, the De Soto expedition set out on a quest for gold which eventually spanned four years and crossed portions of nine states. This was the first recorded European . . . — Map (db m27278) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-52 — Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman — 1794-1885 |
| | Born in Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia on March 21, 1794. Grew up in Kentucky under guardianship of Henry Clay. Visited Augusta in 1818, where she met and married Richard Tubman, wealthy merchant. After his death in 1836, she became interested in the teachings of Alexander Campbell and helped found the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Augusta. Provided funds for numerous churches in Georgia and Kentucky; supported foreign missions. Emancipated her slaves in 1837, providing . . . — Map (db m9995) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Emily Tubman Monument |
| | Dedicated March 21, 1994
Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the birth
of
Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman
Sponsored by The State of Georgia
[Lists names of key government officials, monument committee, and sponsors.] — Map (db m9996) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Eve — 1806 - 1877 |
| | Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, native Augustan and a founder of the Medical College of Georgia, was a brilliant surgeon recognized internationally and a prolific writer. His war activities included aid to French, Italian and Confederate forces and service as Major Field Surgeon in the Polish Insurrection of 1830-31 against Russia. He followed the patriotic example of his boyhood hero, General Pulaski, who lost his life in our Revolutionary War. — Map (db m9997) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — First Baptist Church Convention |
| | On this site May 8, 1845
The Southern Baptist Convention
was organized
by 327 delegates from the states of
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisana, Kentucky and District of Columbia.
———
The following officers were elected:
Rev. Wm. B. Johnson of Edgefield S.C. President
Talson Lumpton, Ga J.B. Taylor, Va.
Vice presidents
Jesse Hartwell, Ala. James C. Crane, Va. . . . — Map (db m10130) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-9 — First Christian Church — (Disciples of Christ) |
| | The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) began in Kentucky in the early years of the nineteenth century. Dr. Daniel Hook and Captain and Mrs. Edward Campfield established Augusta’s First Christian Church in 1835, despite great suspicion and negativity from more established Protestant denominations. Philanthropist Emily Tubman aided the fledgling congregation by donating the first building (later Tubman High School for girls), convincing Georgia lawyer James S. Lamar to study and to become the . . . — Map (db m14884) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Five Indian Nations |
| | To commemorate the great congress of
five Indian Nations held here at Fort
Augusta in 1763. When seven hundred
Indians came to meet the Governors of
Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina. — Map (db m9899) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Fort Augusta |
| | This stone marks the site
of the
Colonial Fort Augusta,
built by order of General Oglethorpe
and the trustees
in 1736;
and known,
during the Revolution as
Fort Cornwallis.
St. Paul Church was built
in 1750,
under the curtain of this fort. — Map (db m9803) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-30 — Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church |
| | This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort Augusta (so named after a royal Princess), maintaining a garrison until 1767. Here he met chiefs of the Chickasaws and Cherokees in 1739 to pacify them after a smallpox epidemic.
In 1750, there was built the first St. Paul`s Church
"under the curtain of the fort." In . . . — Map (db m9723) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-4 — Fort Grierson |
| | Approximate location of Ft. Grierson, named after British Lt. Col. James Grierson, who commanded a temporary stronghold at this place during occupation of Augusta by the British under Col. Brown from May, 1780, to June, 1781. After a rendezvous between Richard Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, approaching from Sand Bar Ferry with General Elijah Clarke, and General Andrew Pickens, approaching from the North and West, the fort was invested and, after vigorous attack, Grierson attempted to escape . . . — Map (db m9746) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Founding of Augusta |
| | Following the establishment of Georgia's first settlement at Savannah in 1733, General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the colony, learned of a thriving trading village on the Carolina bank of the Savannah River located near the head of navigation and protected by Fort Moore.
Indian foot trails met at the Fall Line where rocks in the riverbed formed a natural bridge for safe crossing. As deerskin traders from South Carolina pushed further into the wilderness, the area around the river . . . — Map (db m10321) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — General George Washington |
| | To Honor The Memory
of
General
George Washington
Guest of Our City
1791
Placed By
Elizabeth Washington
Chapter
D.A.R.
1932 — Map (db m9742) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-49 — Georgia’s First School of Medicine |
| | The property on which the Widows Home is located was the site of Augusta’s first City Hospital. Constructed in 1818, the hospital provided for the “sick poor” of Augusta and later evolved into the present University Hospital. At City Hospital, Georgia’s first school of medicine opened its doors as the Medical Academy of Georgia on October 1, 1829. This location served as an academic facility until 1835, when the school, then renamed the Medical College of Georgia, was moved to the . . . — Map (db m21519) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-9 — Georgia's State Capital |
| | Augusta served as the capital of Georgia
from 1785 until 1795 when the seat of
government was moved to the new capital,
Louisville. The Georgia General Assembly
met at this site in a two-story building on
the corner of Elbert (Fourth) and Bay
Streets. The building was known as both
the State House and Government House
and was adjacent to the Academy of
Richmond County. In Augusta on January 2,
1788, Georgia became the fourth state to
ratify the United States Constitution. In . . . — Map (db m9747) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Great Indian Trading Path |
| | The colonial Great Indian Trading Path crossed land now a part of Augusta College and followed a part of the present McDowell Street. It was variously called Trading Road, Augusta Road, and the Creek Indian Path. Early platts show it on land owned by Robert Walton, Abia Clay, and Francis Willis.
During the colonial era the Path was Augusta’s lifeline of profitable Indian trade; the exchange of English goods for furs brought in from the wilderness. Along this trail and its connections a . . . — Map (db m10008) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Great Indian Warrior / Trading Path — (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road) |
| | The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the governors of NY, PA, & VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In GA, the Path had two branches from SC, the western to Augusta and the eastern to Savannah, formed to find salt and game. — Map (db m9906) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Historic Site in Journalism |
| | The Augusta Chronicle is the South's
oldest surviving newspaper, in
continuous publication. The
Chronicle was founded on September
30, 1786. It dates its origins back
to August 30, 1785 and the founding
of The Augusta Gazette which later
became part of the Chronicle.
Marked this 30th day of August, 1973
by
SIGMA DELTA CHI
Professional Journalism Society — Map (db m10102) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — James Ryder Randall — 1839 — 1908 |
| | "Better the fire upon thee roll,
Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,
Than Crucifixion of the soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!" — Map (db m10106) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Jefferson Davis Bridge |
| | Jefferson Davis
West Point Graduate
Class of 1828
* * *
Services:
Indian Wars 1829- 1835
Member of Congress 1845-'46
Colonel U.S. Army
Hero of Buena Vista and Monterey
Secretary of War 1853-'57
Senator from Mississippi
1849-'51 1857-'61
President of
Confederate States of America
1861 - 1865
* * *
A tribute from Chapter "A"
(Augusta, Georgia)
United Daughters
of the
Confederacy
1931
— Map (db m9645) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Jessye Norman — International Opera Star and Humanitarian |
| | Riverwalk Amphitheater and Plaza named in honor
of Jessye Norman, internationally acclaimed opera star,
born in Augusta, Georgia, September 15, 1945. Miss Norman began singing at Mounty Calvary Baptist Church, 1260 Wrightsboro Road. She attended C.T. Walker Elementary School and A.R. Johnson Junior High School. After graduating from Lucy C. Laney High School, Miss Norman pursued vocal training, earning her Bachelor's Degree from Howard University and her Master's Degree from the . . . — Map (db m10032) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-6 — Joseph R. Lamar, Associate Justice — Supreme Court of the United States |
| | Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916) lived in this manse from 1860-1875 while his father, James Sanford Lamar, was pastor of First Christian Church. A prominent attorney, he served two terms in the Georgia legislature and codified the civil code of Georgia in 1893. He sat as an associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, 1903-1905. Although a Democrat, he was appointed by Republican President Taft as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1911. President Wilson, his . . . — Map (db m14886) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Magnolia Cemetery |
| | Covering seven city blocks, the cemetery was begun on a part of the de L’Aigle Plantation and Brick Yard, donated by the Nicholas de L’Aigie family. It became known as the City Cemetery in 1818 and was later named for its stately magnolia trees.
Among those buried here are seven Confederate Generals (Alexander, Bryan, Girardy, Jackson, Smith, Stovall and Wright); poets Paul Hamilton Hayne, James Ryder Randall and Richard Henry Wilde; Augusta mayors George W. Evans and William White Holt; . . . — Map (db m6612) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Major Ferdinand Phinizy |
| | In Memory Of
Major Ferdinand Phinizy
Who Died October 19th, 1818
In The 57th Year Of His Age
He was a native of Parma in Italy,
but in early life
became a citizen of the United States.
He shared in the struggles,
advocated the rights,
and was a friend
to the independence
of his adopted country — Map (db m10273) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-14 — Medical College Building |
| | On this property, owned by the Trustees of Richmond Academy, this building was designed by the distinguished Georgia architect, Charles B. Cluskey, for the use by the Medical College of Georgia. It was occupied by the Medical College from its completion in 1835 until 1911, when the College removed to University Place. After removal of the Medical College this building was used for the manual training and science departments of the Richmond Academy until 1926. — Map (db m23448) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Old Medical College |
| | has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
1996
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior — Map (db m10089) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Paine College Founding Site |
| | Paine College was founded as Paine Institute on this spot in 1882 by black and white members of the Colored (now Christian) Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now United Methodist Church). Ths institution, founded to educate and empower recently emancipated slaves, embodied an intellectual mission, a commitment to interracial harmony, and a vision ot the social order. Since its inception, Paine College has maintained a legacy of achievement among its thousand of graduated. — Map (db m9988) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Railroads |
| | Business interests in Charleston, South Carolina financed the construction of America's first commercial railroad in 1833 in an effoert to capture a greater share of the upland cotton, was formerly transported by raft or steamboat to Savannah, Charleston's rival port. The South Carolina Railroad track was laid from Charleston to Hamburg, a town opposite Augusta on the Carolina side of the river. At that time the line was the longest in the world. The first locomotive to make the run was proudly . . . — Map (db m10195) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-27 — Richmond County |
| | Originally designated as the Parish of St. Paul by the Act creating it in 1758, the name was changed in 1777 to Richmond County in honor of the Duke of Richmond, who, as a member of Parliament, was a zealous supporter of the American cause, advocating independence of the Colonies. It originally included a large part of four other counties: Columbia, Jefferson, McDuffie and Warren. Included within its borders are the incorporated towns of Augusta, the county seat; Hephzibah, formerly . . . — Map (db m9706) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Samuel Hammond |
| | Born in Richmond County, Virginia, Sept. 1757,
Died at Varello, near Augusta, Sept. 1842.
Patriot, Soldier, Statesman.
Captain of minutemen at Great Kanahwa, 1774.
Long Bridge, Norfolk, 1775.
Aid to General Hand at Pittsburgh, 1778.
Colonel of cavalry under Washington, 1779.
With General Greene in every important engagement through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. On the front line at Eutaw, Cowpens and Kings . . . — Map (db m9802) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-4 — Spirit Creek Baptist Church |
| | In July 1800, this church was organized in a canebrake on Spirit Creek by slaves on the Twiggs plantation. The Reverend J.W. Sutton served as the first pastor. In July 1868, the church purchased 14 and 1/2 acres here on Butler Creek and moved to this location. The current and second sanctuary on this site was constructed in 1931. Among the influential pastors who have presided here are Peter Johnson, Frank Beal, Daniel McHorton, and A.W. Vincent. The church was a charter member of Ebenezer . . . — Map (db m15333) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — St. James United Methodist Church |
| | In 1798 the Methodist Church was incorporated in Augusta and known as the “Augusta Station.” St. John Methodist Episcopal Church was the mother church formed out of this movement and St. James Methodist Episcopal Church was created in 1854 as an outgrowth of St. John. St. John secured the lot for the new church in 1855 and by 1856, a two-story brick building was completed at a cost of $9,661. St. James was named in honor of Reverend James E. Evans, its founder. In 1886, the church . . . — Map (db m23079) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-5 — Stoney Nurses Home — of the Lamar School of Nursing |
| | This building, named for Dr. George N. Stoney, a prominent local black physician, opened in 1909 to house students of Lamar School of Nursing. The
school, founded in 1897 by Lucy Craft Laney and Dr. William H. Doughty, was one of the first nursing schools for blacks in the South and trained students for work at Lamar Hospital, which opened in 1895 for black patients. The building was vacated in 1955 when the school was disbanded, though black nurses
continued training at University Hospital. . . . — Map (db m15337) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-36 — Summerville Cemetery |
| | In this cemetery are buried the following eminent Georgians:
JOHN MILLEDGE (1757-1818), Revolutionary officer, Congressman, Governor (1802-1806). He gave the land on which the University of Georgia is built.
GEORGE WALKER CRAWFORD (1798-1872), lawyer, legislator, Congressman, Governor (1843-1847), Secretary of War under President Zachary Taylor, President of the State Secession Convention (1861).
CHARLES JONES JENKINS (1805-1883), lawyer, jurist, legislator, State Senator, . . . — Map (db m14871) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — The “Haunted” Pillar of the Lower Market |
| | On this site stood The Lower Market. Fire destroyed an early structure in 1829. The rebuilt market, with its bell that could be heard throughout the city, was a center of agricultural and livestock trade. A freakish, cyclone blasted the structure in 1878 and local citizens moved the only column left standing to its present location at 5th (Centre) and Broad Streets. According to local tradition, a wandering “exhorter” predicted that anyone who pulled down the pillar would be struck . . . — Map (db m21421) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-29 — The First Baptist Church |
| | 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 minister, Wm. T. Brantley, this property was purchased in 1870. A church on this site was dedicated May 26, 1821. In 1845, after serious friction arose in the national Triennial Convention, 327 delegates from eight southern states and the District of . . . — Map (db m10135) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — The First Presbyterian Church |
| | [Lower Marker]:
The origin of this church is 1750 when St. Paul's Church was established under the jurisdiction of the Church of England. In 1804 Christ Church was incorporated at St. Pauls's as a Presbyterian congregation. Subsequently, the name was changed to the First Presbyterian Church.
Lord's Day Services
(Hours)
[Upper Marker]:
A Stone of Appreciation
Pennsylvania Men
28th Division
Camp Hancock
1918 — Map (db m9784) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-11 — The First Presbyterian Church |
| | Organized by the Rev. Washington McKnight, rector of Richmond Academy, in 1804. Met at first at site of St. Paul`s Church, incorporated by the Georgia General Assembly and given a lot on the common by Richmond Academy Trustees. Cornerstone of the present church laid July 4, 1809. Building dedicated May 17, 1812. Spire added in 1818. An outstanding pastor was the Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, 1858-1870, father of Woodrow Wilson.
December 4, 1861, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in . . . — Map (db m9838) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-23 — The Mayham Tower |
| | Approximately at this place, May 28-31, 1781, a Mayham tower was erected by the American forces commanded by General Andrew Pickens and Lt. Colonel "Light Horse Harry" Lee, who was besieging Fort Cornwallis, located on the present site of Saint Paul`s Church, held by a British garrison under Colonel Thomas Brown.
At the top of this tower constructed of logs filled in with earth, an embrasure was cut and a six-pounder gun was lifted into position which from elevation was able to rake the . . . — Map (db m9808) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-28 — The Signer's Monument |
| | Dedicated July 4, 1848, in honor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Georgia: George Walton, Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett. The first two lie buried in crypts beneath this shaft. The burial place of Gwinnett, whose body was to have been reinterred here, has never been found.
George Walton, born in Virginia, settled in Georgia, and was a colonel in the Revolutionary Army, twice governor of Georgia, judge of Superior Court and chief justice of Georgia, six times elected to . . . — Map (db m9946) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — The Veterans of 1898-1902 |
| | "You Triumphed Over Obstacles
Which Would Have Overcome Men
Less Brave And Determined"
President McKinley
Dedicated to
The Veterans Of 1898 to 1902
by Department of Georgia National Auxiliary
United Spanish War Veterans
At the Twentieth Annual Convention
May 3, 4, & 5 1942 — Map (db m10187) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-45 — Two Early Augusta Churches |
| | 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. Lonstreet and five Methodist Bishops, including James O. Andrew, George F. Pierce, and Warren R. Candler, were pastors of St. John. Lorenzo Dow the colorful and eccentric evangelist, also figured in the early history of the church. In 1844, the original . . . — Map (db m10200) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-12 — U.S. Marshall Robert Forsyth — ( 1754-1794 ) |
| | 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 Georgia by President Washington in 1789. Forsyth also served as justice of the peace and as a trustee of Richmond Academy. On January 11, 1794, Forsyth was shot and killed by Beverly Allen while attempting to serve civil court papers. Allen was arrested . . . — Map (db m10164) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Untitled (Georgia Railroad and Banking Company) |
| | 2200 feet to the southwest at a place indicated by a marker of the Georgia Historical Commission, Georgia Railroad and Banking Company on May 21, 1837 operated the first railroad in Georgia. It is the oldest railroad in Georgia continuously operating under its original charter which was granted by the General Assembly, on December 21, 1833.
Though extensive portions of its lines were destroyed by Sherman, it carried without charge 100,000 Confederate soldiers to their homes after the War. . . . — Map (db m10165) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-2 — Washington's Southern Tour |
| | During his Southern tour of 1791, President George Washington visited Augusta--at that time Georgia`s capital--from May 18-21. Washington met with Governor Edward Telfair and other "principal gentlemen of the place," including George Walton and John Twiggs; attended a ball at Richmond Academy "at which there were between 60 & 70 well-dressed ladies;" toured the remains of Fort Cornwallis near St. Paul`s Church; and visited the falls on the Savannah River. He described the city as "well laid out . . . — Map (db m9708) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-48 — White HouseTract |
| | The 500-acres parcel of land long known as the “White House Tract” witnessed many of Augusta’s most significant historical events. On this tract an Indian trading company known as MacKay’s Trading Post, or the White House, flourished. Around this establishment the bitter 1st Siege of Augusta raged for four days in September 1780. The unsuccessful Patriots under Col. Elijah Clarke had to leave some wounded behind. Some of these had broken their paroles and were executed by Col. . . . — Map (db m23265) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — William Bartram Trail — Traced 1773-1777 — Deep South Region |
| | William Bartram Visits Augusta
1773 for Indian Ceded Lands Treaty.
1775 said . . . ."Augusta would become
the Metropolis of Georgia" — Map (db m9762) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-7 — William Bartram Visited Augusta, 1773. |
| | "The village of Augusta." wrote the celebrated American naturalist and botanist of his visits in 1765 and 1773, "is situated on a rich and fertile plain of the Savanna River; the buildings are near its banks and extend two miles. The site of Augusta is perhaps the most delightful and eligible of any in Georgia for a city. I do not hesitate to pronounce, as my opinion, that it will very soon become the metropolis of Georgia. Upon the rich, rocky hills at the cataracts of Augusta I first observed the perfumed rhododenron ferrugineum." — Map (db m9761) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — 121-8 — William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | In the "Masonic Hall" on this site, the British author lectured (Feb. 11-12, 1856), as guest of The Young Men`s Library Assn. He wrote home: "Nice quaint old town Augusta, rambling great street 2 miles long, doctors and shopkeepers the society of the place, the latter far more independent and gentlemanlike than our folks, much pleasanter to be with than the daring go ahead northern people. Slavery no where repulsive, the black faces invariably happy and plump, the white ones eager and hard. I . . . — Map (db m9987) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — William Schley 1786 - 1858 — Governor of Georgia 1835- 1837 — Grand Master of Georgia 1828- 1831 |
| | Masonic Emblem
In this family cemetery rest the remains of William Schley, Governor and Grand Master of Georgia. Brother Schley was born in Frederick, Maryland December 10, 1786 and acquired his education in the academies at Louisville and Augusta, Georgia. He was admitted to the Bar in 1812 and continued the practice of law until 1825 when he was elected judge of the Superior Court of the Middle Division of Georgia.
Brother Schley was a member of St. Patrick Lodge No. 8, Louisville, . . . — Map (db m27065) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — Woodmen Of The World Memorial — Dum Tacet Clamat |
| | . . . — Map (db m10272) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Augusta — World War — 1917 1918 |
| | [Front]:
To honor the men of Richmond County,
of every creed and color,
who served at their country's call
that aggression and lawless force
should not dominate the world.
[Reverse]:
What stands if freedom fall?
Kipling 1914 — Map (db m10211) |
| Georgia (Richmond County), Hepzibah — 121-7 — First Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| | This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to the deacon board of Ebenezer Baptist Church. The fifty-six-member congregation joined the Georgia Baptist Association in 1867. First Ebenezer's leadership
in the Association was paramount in forming the Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, the first African-American convention. Two new congregations . . . — Map (db m14885) |
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