On Cove Road (Georgia Route 341) south of Gordon Street, on the right when traveling south.
At the start of the war some of the Walker County men retained their Unionist sympathies, but Lincoln's announcement of an unconstitutional military invasion of the south to force the seceding states back into the Union caused most of them to . . . — — Map (db m77627) HM
On Georgia Route 136 at Route 201, on the left when traveling east on Georgia Route 136.
Ante-bellum cross-roads settlement; name taken from Jane Porter's novel: 'Thaddeus of Warsaw.' May 7, 1864, Kilpatrick's Cav., having crossed Taylor's Ridge at Nickajack Gap, moved to Gordon's Springs where it was joined by Ireland's brigade . . . — — Map (db m13911) HM
Near North Main Street (Georgia Route 1) north of Wardlaw Street.
The Marsh House was built by Spencer Stewart Marsh about 1836. Mr. Marsh was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, on November 25, 1799, and was the son of William Marsh, a soldier in the American Revolution for whom the local William Marsh . . . — — Map (db m82761) HM
On Riverside Lane at Canyon Drive (Alabama Route 35), on the left when traveling west on Riverside Lane.
The river originates in Lafayette in Walker County, Georgia, flows through Chattooga County, Georgia and then enters Cherokee County before emptying into Weiss Lake. Prior to the construction of the lake, the Chattooga River converged with the Coosa . . . — — Map (db m137513) HM
On Hog Jowl Road south of Route 193, on the right when traveling south.
On January 28, 1850, Martin Davis purchased 160 acres of land along the Chickamauga Creek in Walker County, Georgia. Here a short time later, at the foot of Pigeon Mountain and with a clear view of Lookout Mountain, Martin would move his family . . . — — Map (db m155502)
On Washington Street SW at Martin Luther King Jr Dive NW, on the left when traveling south on Washington Street SW.
John Brown Gordon, son of the Rev. Zachariah Herndon Gordon and Mrs. Malinda Cox Gordon, was born in Upson County Feb. 6, 1832. He attended a rural school in Walker County, Pleasant Green Academy in Lafayette, and the University of Georgia. He . . . — — Map (db m86837) HM
Near North Main Street (Georgia Route 1) north of Wardlaw Street.
Chattooga Academy served as Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's headquarters from September 10-17, 1863. Bragg reportedly prepared for the Battle of Chickamauga under a large oak tree in front of the building; the tree, later known as Bragg's Oak, was . . . — — Map (db m82762) HM
On Manning Mill Road at West Armuchee Road, on the left when traveling east on Manning Mill Road.
William Little (1801-1884) was born in Union County, South Carolina, and married Elizabeth "Betsy" Young (1815-1884) in 1835. With Betsey's parents, James Marion Young and Sarah Ann Foster Young, the families moved around 1836 to the West Armuchee . . . — — Map (db m307690) HM
On County Road 90 0.1 miles east of Alabama Route 73, on the right when traveling east.
Ebenezer Baptist Church is the oldest church on the northern end of Sand Mountain. Its origins date back to an 1850s log church and school called Gordon Chapel. Renamed Ebenezer, the church became a member of the Tennessee River Baptist Association . . . — — Map (db m156122) HM
On North Duke Street north of Wardlaw Street East, on the left when traveling north.
The Lynching of Henry White. On September 20, 1916, Henry White, a 24-year-old African American was lynched by a large white mob in the city of Durham in Walker County. Georgia. Mr. White had come to Durham from Chattanooga, Tennessee and . . . — — Map (db m168093) HM
On McFarland Avenue north of Battlefield Parkway ( Route 2), on the left when traveling north.
Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County (Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and went to South Georgia for . . . — — Map (db m238820) HM
On Cove Road (Georgia Route 341) south of Gordon Street, on the right when traveling south.
There were humans living in what is now Walker County as early as around 10,000 B.C. For thousands of years the people subsisted through hunting and gathering of wild plant foods. The Middle Woodland period (ca. 200 B.C. - 400 A.D.) was marked by . . . — — Map (db m77661) HM
On Peavine Road north of Route 95, on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
The majority of the people who established Walker County were deeply religious. Soon after establishing their farms, the residents of most areas usually built a church. In a typical example, the Rock Springs Methodist Church was established in a log . . . — — Map (db m307746) HM
On W. Indiana Avenue near Part Street, on the right when traveling west.
Here stood a Cherokee Indian stockade with blockhouse on hill, built by U.S. Government in 1836.
Capt. Samuel Fariss and a company of Georgia volunteers guarded Cherokee Indians here before their removal to the west.
This fort was . . . — — Map (db m12907) HM
Near Red Belt Road south of Lee-Gordon Mill Circle.
Following the Federal victories at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge in November, 1863, the Confederate army withdrew to Dalton, Georgia. The Federal Army at Chattanooga conducted periodic patrols into Walker County to forage and for . . . — — Map (db m76188) HM
On Old Lafayette Road at Serene Lane, on the right when traveling north on Old Lafayette Road.
The Dr. Anderson House Camp Site is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Old Lafayette Road and Straight Gut Road, approximately one mile north of Rock Spring, Georgia.
A substantial community grew up around the Rock Spring . . . — — Map (db m315942) HM
On Baker and Hearn Circle 0.6 miles south of Cove Road ( Route 341), on the right when traveling south.
Bird's Mill was built on West Chickamauga Creek during the 1840's by Philemon Bird, a member of a prominent and wealthy Georgia family. The mill was constructed well away from the creek on a long mill race that was dug by hand to bring the water . . . — — Map (db m168205) HM
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