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Wayne County Revolutionary War Memorial

 
 
Revolutionary War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Stroud, October 29, 2009
1. Revolutionary War Memorial
Located on the northwest grounds of the Wayne County Courthouse
Inscription.
Revolutionary War
Soldiers Who Lived
In Wayne County


Richard Bennett
Mrs. Sibbiah Earl Blair
George Cooper
John Fort
Thomas Fullwood
Jacob Highsmith
John Kemp
William Kelly
John Knight
Moses Manning, Jr.
James Middleton
Solomon Morgan
John Munden
William Rawls
Lewis Roberts
Frederick Robeson
James Robinson
John Rooks
West Sheffield
Charles Smith
Robert Stafford
Reuben Turner
Caleb Moore


They helped to give us our
Constitution, The Bill
of Rights, an Independent
Supreme Court and a
nation of free men

 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.
 
Location. 31° 36.261′ N, 81° 52.804′ W. Memorial is in Jesup, Georgia, in Wayne County. It is on North Brunswick Street near East Walnut Street, on the right. Located at the Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 174 North Brunswick Street, Jesup GA 31546, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Georgia’s Coastal Plain. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Wayne County (here, next to this marker); Alexander Jackson Gordon (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct
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line); A Sesquicentennial Celebration (approx. half a mile away); Doctortown (approx. 4.2 miles away); The Defense of the Altamaha Bridge (approx. 6.3 miles away); Franklinia Altamaha (approx. 6.4 miles away); Long County Timeline Mural (approx. 10.8 miles away); Long County (approx. 10.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Jesup.
 
Wayne County and the Revolutionary War Memorial, right image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Stroud, October 29, 2009
2. Wayne County and the Revolutionary War Memorial, right
Revolutionary War Memorial, right, as seen from North Brunswick Street image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Stroud, October 29, 2009
3. Revolutionary War Memorial, right, as seen from North Brunswick Street
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on October 31, 2024. It was originally submitted on November 17, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 2,704 times since then and 97 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on November 17, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.
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