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Memory Hill Cemetery, Dr. John Ruggles Cotting, Former Georgia State Geologist
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 10, 2011
Caption: Memory Hill Cemetery, Dr. John Ruggles Cotting, Former Georgia State Geologist
Additional Description: (1784-October 13, 1867) was born in Massachusetts and was a professor at Amherst and other colleges. After 1810 he helped establish St. Stephens church in Milledgeville. In the 1830s he was engaged as the Georgia State Geologist and began a statewide survey of Georgia. (Memory Hill Cemetery tour)
Submitted: May 12, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153033
File Size: 0.318 Megabytes

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