| Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-19 — Confederate Camp | | | Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens was named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at Cavalry Camp Milner, located at the present Griffin Municipal Park. Spalding County provided nine companies, Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery, to the Confederate Army and a number of militia companies which served locally. The Spalding Grays, Co. D, 2nd Batt. of Inf., was the first to join the Southern forces. — Map (db m27503) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-6 — Confederate Camp — >>>------> | | | Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens, named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of Confederacy, was about ½ mile from here on McIntosh Road. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at the Cavalry Camp Milner, located at the present Griffin Municipal Park. The site of Camp Stephens is marked by a boulder erected by the UDC. Spalding County provided nine companies, Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery, to the Confederate Army and a number of militia . . . — Map (db m27506) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-5 — Confederate Camp Milner | | | Most Georgia troops for the Confederate Army were mobilized in Griffin. Camp Milner, the Cavalry Camp, was named for Ben Milner, prominent Spalding County man who gave financial aid in equipping companies from his county. Camp Stephens, the Infantry Camp, was north of Griffin on McIntosh Road. Griffin and Spalding County furnished 9 companies to the Army and several to the Georgia Militia for local service. Camp Milner became Camp Northen, named for Gov. W. J. Northen, in 1898. During the . . . — Map (db m27510) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-4 — Confederate Cemetery — »——→ | | | Stonewall Cemetery is located on part of a plot given as a burial site by Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin when he founded Griffin in 1840. Several hundred Confederate and one Union soldier, casualties of the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro, from the hospital at the old Synodical College and the battlefields, are buried here. The principal monument, among the first to Confederate dead, was erected by the Ladies Memorial Assn. of Griffin in 1869. The first recorded Confederate Memorial Day in . . . — Map (db m27725) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-10 — First Paving | | | Spalding was the first County between Chicago and Miami on the old Dixie Highway with a concrete highway running from county line to county line. A demonstration strip, completed Jan. 30, 1919, from the city limits of Griffin to and along the front of the Georgia Experiment Station, was the first paving outside a city on the route. That same year the people of Spalding County voted a bond issue of $350,000 to complete the paved highway to the county lines in both directions. Dedication for the . . . — Map (db m27126) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-8 — Founding of Griffin — >>>>--- 2 Bl. ---> | | | Near the present junction of the Central and Southern Railways, from a stump near the town spring, on June 8,1840, Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin sold lots to the highest bidder, thus establishing the City of Griffin. William Leake bought the first lot. Gen. Griffin, an early advocate of the railroad and one of the wealthiest men in Middle Georgia, was the first president of the Monroe Railroad and Banking Co. A General in the Georgia Militia, he fought in the Indian war known as the Florida . . . — Map (db m27589) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-9 — Founding of Griffin | | | From a stump near the town spring, now covered by the embankment of the railroad, on June 8, 1840, Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin sold lots to the highest bidder, thus establishing the City of Griffin. The first lot was sold to William Leake. Gen. Griffin, an early advocate of the railroad and one of the wealthiest men in Middle Georgia, was the first president of the Monroe Railroad and Banking Co. A General in the Georgia Militia, he fought in the Indian war known as the Florida Campaign and in . . . — Map (db m27591) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-12 — Georgia Experiment Station — <------<<<< | | | The Georgia Experiment Station, one of the first State Agricultural Experiment Stations established in this country, was located in Spalding County, Georgia in 1888. The primary objective of its work program is to develop information which will aid in improving the living standards of the people in Georgia, particularly those interested in agriculture. It has pioneered in the development of improved crop varieties. Among the outstanding crop varieties developed at this institution are Empire . . . — Map (db m27562) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-13 — Georgia Militia at Griffin | | | On Nov. 15, 1864. Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, CSA, was at Lovejoy’s Station (13 miles N) with 2800 infantry of the First Division, Georgia Militia, 3 batteries, and about 250 local reserve cavalry, to support Iverson’s division of Wheeler’s cavalry [CS] which was watching for a movement by Gen. Sherman’s army [US] toward Macon and Savannah. That morning, Gen. Sherman began his March to the Sea. Elements of his Right Wing marched from White Hall (West End) near Atlanta towards Jonesboro and Lovejoy’s . . . — Map (db m27682) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — In Memoriam — Our Confederate Dead | | | Front In Memoriam Our Confederate Dead
Right Side
“Hon’d sleep the brave who sink to rest by all their country’s wishes blest! When spring with dewy fingers cold, returns to deck their hallow’d mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod. Their fancy’s feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a . . . — Map (db m59643) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-1 — John McIntosh Kell | | | Near this site was the home of Captain John McIntosh Kell, Executive Officer of the Confederate cruisers Alabama and Sumter. After entering the United States Navy at the age of 17, he served in the Mexican War and in 1853 on Perry’s expedition to Japan. Upon Georgia’s secession from the Union, Kell was the first U.S. Naval officer to offer his services to the South. After the Civil War, at his home here in Sunny Side, Kell entertained his friend, the famous Georgia poet Sidney Lanier, who, . . . — Map (db m11704) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — John McIntosh Kell | | | Near this site was the home of Captain John McIntosh Kell, Executive Officer of the Confederate cruisers Alabama and Sumter. After entering the United States Navy at the age of 17, he served in the Mexican War and in 1853 on Perry’s expedition to Japan. Upon Georgia’s secession from the Union, Kell was the first U.S. Naval officer to offer his services to the South. After the Civil War, at his home here in Sunny Side, Kell entertained his friend, the famous Georgia poet Sidney Lanier, who, . . . — Map (db m53584) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-18 — Lewis Lawrence Griffin | | | Born in South Carolina, October 3, 1794, Lewis Lawrence Griffin moved to Georgia with his widowed mother in the early 1800’s. He fought in the Georgia Militia under General Daniel Newnan in Florida and, later, under Generals John Floyd and Thomas Glascock in the Creek Wars. He was a country merchant, a General in the Militia, a legislator. In 1833 the Legislature chartered the Monroe Railroad Co. and he was made its president.
In 1840 General Griffin auctioned off lots in the town which . . . — Map (db m27810) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — Old McIntosh Road | | | This tablet marks the
Old McIntosh Road
Part of the Three Notch Trail blazed by the Creek Indian Chief
William McIntosh
Slain in 1825, because of his friendship for the White Man — Map (db m59560) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-16 — Ringold Community | | | Older than Spalding County, Ringold Community grew around the two-story Ringold Masonic Lodge 90 building erected here in 1852. The lodge was established Oct. 31, 1849 at what became Walker’s Mill (1 mi. S). First Worshipful Master was Wiley J. Heflin. Marion Patrick served as Worshipful Master for over 30 years, longer than any other one man, and his son, George W. Patrick, Sr., one of the county’s most distinguished citizens, was Worshipful Master in 1949, the 100th birthday of the lodge. . . . — Map (db m27372) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — Rotary International — (1905-2005) | | | Founded in Chicago by Paul P. Harris, Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. — Map (db m59637) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-3 — Spalding County | | | Spalding County was created by Act of Dec. 20, 1851 from Fayette, Henry and Pike Counties. It was named for Thomas Spalding (1774-1851), native of Frederica. One of the earliest cotton and sugar cane planters in Georgia, he was a legislator, state senator, Congressman, and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1798. First officers of Spalding County, commissioned Feb. 5, 1852, were: Addison A. Wooten, Sheriff; Henry B. Holliday, Clk. Sup. Ct.; James S. Wood, Clk. Inf. Ct.; William L. . . . — Map (db m59619) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — Spalding County | | | Spalding County
Dedicates this memorial as a perpetual evidence of her gratitude for the brave, loyal and patriotic service rendered by
Her Sons and Daughters
in
1917 – The World War - 1918
(A separate plaque at the base of the monument lists those from Spalding County killed in World War One)
In memory of our Doughboys who lost their lives during the Great War.
Troy D. Barnett William L. Mallory
Otis Cook Cecil R. Moon
James A. Cottingham D. G. Norton . . . — Map (db m59736) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-7 — Spalding Grays — <------<<<< | | | The Spalding Grays, as Co. D. 2nd Batt. Inf., was the first military unit from Spalding County to be mustered in to the Confederate Army. It was followed by 8 regular and several militia companies. The Spalding Grays have continued through the years as a unit of the Ga. Nat. Guard, serving in war and peace, military and civil emergencies. Today it is Co. C, 48th Reconnaissance Batt., 48th Armored Div., Ga. Nat. Guard, whose headquarters are in this modern armory, completed in 1956. The only . . . — Map (db m27574) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-17 — The City of Griffin | | | The first city government of Griffin, founded in 1840 by General Lewis Lawrence Griffin, was authorized in 1843 when the General Assembly of Georgia granted it a charter. The charter was accepted locally in 1844 and the first municipal government was established in 1845. This consisted of a Board of Commissioners with Major Henry Moor, an attorney, acting as chairman. After serving later as mayor, Major Moor, with William Dewberry, represented Spalding County at the Secession Convention where . . . — Map (db m27811) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-15 — The Fannin Avengers | | | In 1846, when President Polk called for volunteers to fight against Mexico, a company of men organized promptly in Griffin. Calling themselves “The Fannin Avengers”, they marched to Columbus where the company became part of a regiment commanded by Colonel Henry R. Jackson of Savannah. The regiment performed gallant service in Mexico. The company was named in honor of Col. James W. Fannin of Twiggs County, a martyr to Texas independence. Tremendously outnumbered, he agreed to . . . — Map (db m27576) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — 126-14 — The Orphan Brigade | | | At Bear Creek Station (Hampton), on Sept. 4, 1864, Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis famous “Orphan Brigade” (2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Kentucky Infantry) was relieved from assignment to Bate’s division, Hardee’s corps. Army of Tennessee [CS], in which it had served with conspicuous gallantry all through Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s classic retreat from his exposed position at Dalton to the strong lines surrounding Atlanta and later, through Gen. John B. Hood’s failure to hold that vitally . . . — Map (db m27724) HM | | Georgia (Spalding County), Griffin — To the Women of Griffin and Spalding County | | |
To
The Women of Griffin and Spalding County
Who gave their services during the War Between the States from ’61 to ‘65 James S. Boynton Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy have placed this boulder
No act of injustice, no failure of duty, no shadow of wrong has left a blot upon these souls or a stain upon these memories
A.D. 1922 — Map (db m61276) HM |
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