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 . . . — — Map (db m9645) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m10032) HM
For over six decades, John Tutt educated Augusta's youth at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute and Lucy Craft Laney High School. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1905, Tutt returned to Augusta to teach Mathematics. Coach Tutt's . . . — — Map (db m36621) HM
John Wesley Gilbert is considered the first African-American archaeologist.
Born enslaved near Hephzibah, he was educated in Augusta's segregated public
schools, at Paine Institute (now Paine College), and at Brown University, where
he focused on . . . — — Map (db m267545) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m14886) HM
Born on this site Sept. 10, 1836
Lt. Gen. Com. Confederate Cavalry 1865
Maj. Gen. Com. U.S. Cavalry 1898
"His name and fame will live and be loved as long
as noble deeds are honored among men"
Placed by
Annie Wheeler Auxiliary No. 3, . . . — — Map (db m47464) HM
This is the site of the old Planter's Hotel, which was burned in 1839. There the Marquis de LaFayette was entertained during his visit to Augusta in March 1825. LaFayette landed at Savannah on March 19th and traveled to Augusta with Governor Troup . . . — — Map (db m35526) HM
A leading educator of the nineteenth century, Lucy Craft Laney was born into a free African-American household in Macon, Georgia. In 1873 she was part of Atlanta University’s first graduating class. After teaching in Macon, Milledgeville, and . . . — — Map (db m37301) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m273549) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m10273) HM
The celebrated Revolutionary War hero, Marquis de Lafayette visited Augusta in March, 1825.
The visit was a social event that embodied the spirit of the times, an era now known as the "Age of Enterprise" in Augusta's history.
Storekeepers . . . — — Map (db m294353) HM
Residence George Walton 1792 - 1804
Signer of
The Declaration of Independence
Delegate to Continental Congress
Representative & Senator
Chief Justice and Twice Governor
of Georgia
W.P.A. 1936 D.A.R. — — Map (db m33201) HM
400 feet west of here is Meadow Garden, home of George Walton, Revolutionary Patriot and soldier, Governor, Congressman, Senator, Jurist. With Button Gwinnett and Lyman Hall, he signed the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, for the State of . . . — — Map (db m33358) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m107427) HM
Col. Jones was mayor of Savannah in 1860. In 1861 he joined the Chatham Artillery and served, later, as Chief of Artillery for the Military District of Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina. After the war, he practiced law in New . . . — — Map (db m34482) HM
During the period of exploration and settlement of the North American continent, the earliest means of transportation were the rivers, and the Savannah River was the major artery of the Southeast.
Most of the river trade was in deerskins and . . . — — Map (db m114304) HM
This building was constructed in 1802 by the Trustees of the Richmond Academy in which to operate the school provided for in its charter granted in 1783, which had been theretofore conducted in buildings between Reynolds and Bay Streets on the east . . . — — Map (db m200155) HM
Common - " ... a large void space which will be useful for a thousand purposes, and among the rest,
as being airy and affording a fine prospect of the town in drawing near to it" —Sir Robert
Montgomery, 1717
Providing a . . . — — Map (db m64419) HM
Paine Institute, rechartered as Paine College in 1903, was founded Nov. 1, 1882, by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Epicscopal Church, South, at the urgent request of Bishop Lucious Holsey of the C.M.E. Church. The first . . . — — Map (db m31673) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m9988) HM
(panel 1)
Paul Fitzsimmons Eve
Born near Augusta, Georgia June 27, 1806
Died in Nashville, Tennessee November 3, 1877
Major Field Surgeon Polish War 1830-1831
A founder of the Medical College of Georgia 1832 . . . — — Map (db m114272) HM WM
One of the early Methodist Churches in this section, Pierce Memorial was first called Rocks Church, then Pierce Chapel for Bishop George F. Pierce, leading Georgia Methodist. The first building was erected across the road by slave labor soon after . . . — — Map (db m37156) HM
This stone erected by the citizens of Richmond County, Georgia marks the spot where President William McKinley descended from the railroad train on the occasion of his visit to Augusta, Georgia on December 19th, 1898. The name of McKinley Avenue has . . . — — Map (db m200114) HM
Business interests in Charleston, South Carolina financed the construction of America's first commercial railroad in 1833 in an effort to capture a greater share of the upland cotton, was formerly transported by raft or steamboat to . . . — — Map (db m10195) HM
Rev. Charles T. Walker was born into slavery in 1858 near Hepzibah, later moving to Augusta to study divinity at The Augusta Institute (now Morehouse College). Walker received his ordination at Franklin Covenant Baptist Church and established . . . — — Map (db m200124) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m9706) HM
In 1896, the Shiloh Baptist Association founded an orphanage for African-American children denied care at the city's whites-only orphanage. After operating briefly under a different name and director, the home became Shiloh Orphanage under the . . . — — Map (db m200120) HM
On the Barnes farm, south and east of this marker, one of the first military aviation training centers in the U.S. was established in 1911. After successful test flights of the second Wright airplane in 1909, the Wright brothers agreed to the . . . — — Map (db m33763) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m15333) HM
This building, which was erected in 1801 by Augusta`s first Methodist Society, was moved to this location in 1844 to become the home of the Springfield Baptist Church.
Organized in 1787 by Jesse Peters, the Springfield Baptist Church is the . . . — — Map (db m271411) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m23079) HM
First built 1816 rebuilt on
this site 1826 Home of famous
author Stephen Vincent Benet
whose father
Colonel James Walker Benet
commanded Augusta Arsenal 1911 to 1919 — — Map (db m46873) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m15337) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m14871) HM
Emerging from Central African Baptist Church's divided congregation, Beulah Baptist Church was founded in the Union Baptist Church fellowship hall in August 1885 by Rev. C.T. Walker. Renamed Tabernacle Baptist Church two days later in August 1885, . . . — — Map (db m200152) HM
The M48 Tank was designed in 1954. The tank
weight is 45 tons. It has an aircooled 810 hp
engine and carries a crew of four. Armament
consists of two machine guns in addition to
the 90mm gun which has a maximum effective
range of 2.7 miles. . . . — — Map (db m35028) HM
Thankful Baptist Church was founded on April 26, 1840 under the name “Independent” in an area of Augusta
known as “Pinched Gut”. It was the first daughter church established out of Springfield Baptist Church who emerged . . . — — Map (db m48993) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m211686) HM
For a period of 128 years until its abandonment in 1955, a United States Arsenal was located on a tract comprising approxiamately 70 acres lying South and West of this spot. An "arsenal at Augusta" to aid the state in "resisting invasion" was . . . — — Map (db m34706) HM
On January 24, 1861 five days after
Georgia's secession from the Union,
Governor Joseph E. Brown accepted
the surrender of the United States Arsenal at
Augusta from Captain Arnold Elzey. Brown rejected Elzey's request
that his troops be . . . — — Map (db m36086) HM
Until the Enterprise Mill was built Augustans were not sure that the 1875 enlargement of the canal had worked to attract industry.
The 1848 granite block building at the canal end of this complex is a former flour mill and the only . . . — — Map (db m36308) HM
The tall chimney in front of the Sibley Mill
is the only surviving structure built by the
Confederacy, and stands as a memorial to war dead.
Augusta and its canal played a prominent role in
the War between the States as the site of . . . — — Map (db m210476) HM
The Augusta Canal, begun in 1845 and completed in 1847, provided power for one of the first cotton textile manufacturing plants in the South and was the beginning of the development of Augusta as a great textile manufacturing center.
The . . . — — Map (db m33907) HM
The Bell, donated to the College by the
Georgia Railroad Bank, came from the
last steam locomotive of the Georgia
Railroad. In 1957, the bank also funded
the building of the tower to house the bell,
which at one time rang to mark the . . . — — Map (db m47808) HM
When the conflict began in April 1861,
leaders on both sides were unprepared
to wage a long war. The Confederacy's
industrial capacity was especially lacking,
and munitions of all types were scarce.
Initial stores of gunpowder . . . — — Map (db m32882) HM
One block east on Bay Street was opened as a
boys' classicial school on April 12, 1785. Here
President George Washington attended
examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the
General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta
was the capital, the . . . — — Map (db m34128) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m10135) HM
[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. . . . — — Map (db m9784) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m9838) HM
The Great Fire of 1916 broke out on March 22nd at 6:20 p.m. in Kelly's Dry Goods Store, located in the Dyer Building at the northwest corner of Broad Street and Jackson (Eighth) Street. Whipped along by high winds, the flames rapidly spread to . . . — — Map (db m114283) HM
After rendering valuable aid to his State as a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1860-1865). Charles Jones Jenkins was elected Governor in 1865. For defying certain reconstruction measures of Congress and military orders, he was replaced by . . . — — Map (db m35251) HM
Serious flooding of the Savannah River in 1852 prompted the first consideration of the construction of a levee, a man-made earth embankment, but Augusta experienced the calamity of several other destructive floods before construction of the levee . . . — — Map (db m114302) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m9808) HM
The Medical College of Georgia, oldest school of medicine in Georgia, was incorporated in 1828 as the Medical Academy of Georgia. Of the 23 original board of Trustees, 5 were from the City of Augusta and three of these were elected as the initial . . . — — Map (db m34253) HM
The Old Government House, built in 1801, is one of
the oldest remaining public buildings in Augusta.
The original building consisting of the central block
of the structure only, housed the seats of local
government. It was sold to Mayor Samuel . . . — — Map (db m200158) HM
On May 11, 1970, Augusta became the site of Georgia's largest uprising during the Civil Rights era. Hundreds of black citizens gathered at the Municipal Building to demand an investigation into the beating death of Charles Oatman, a 16-year-old . . . — — Map (db m200154) HM
On September 23, 1914, The Rotary Club of Augusta met for the first time in the former Albion Hotel, located here. Organized by attorney James M. Hull and local businessmen, the club promotes fellowship and service. Rotary began in Chicago in 1905 . . . — — Map (db m191174) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m9946) HM
Members of the seventeenth-century French Order of Saint Joseph of Carondelet were first invited to Georgia at the end of the Civil War to teach and staff an orphanage in Savannah. Working with the children of African Americans, the Sisters of St. . . . — — Map (db m36714) HM
"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 . . . — — Map (db m10187) HM
This memorial is dedicated to the memory of
these 7 brave soldiers who rest elsewhere in
Magnolia. They fought against oppression,
tyranny, absolute power and usurpation off
states' rights, all of which still plague our
country. — — Map (db m210591) WM
1795
Richmond Hussars
Troop K
Georgia Cavalry
Glorified
in
Every War
1917 ( Rear )
[ Emblem: Last Man's Club ]
Honor Roll
of the Last Man's Club organized
24 December 1929 and dedicated to
Men Of . . . — — Map (db m32998) HM
For many years during the 19th and 20th centuries, turbines like this one helped manufacturers turn waterpower into the power that helped drive machines.
Back in 1918, Howle & Turner of Heflin, Alabama, purchased this Improved Double Turbine . . . — — Map (db m210541) HM
In the cemetery about 300 yards from here are buried Major-General John Twiggs, a hero of the American Revolution, for whom Twiggs County is named, and his son, Major-General David Emanuel Twiggs, who achieved military distinction in the Mexican . . . — — Map (db m61699) HM
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. . . . — — Map (db m10200) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m10164) HM
While not incorporated as a separate community until 1861 (with boundaries being a circle with a one mile radius from Gould's Corner), Summerville was occupied before the turn of the 19th Century. Early residents included George Walton (signer of . . . — — Map (db m49963) HM
Freeman Walker, in 1826, deeded 70 acres of land to the U. S. Govt. to be used as an arsenal – the site now of Augusta College. He reserved one acre as a family burial ground. The marker in front of his home “Bellvue”, on . . . — — Map (db m63573) HM
Near this site stood Ware High School, which was the first public high school for African-Americans in Georgia and one of only five in the south while it was in operation. Founded in 1880, it was named for Edmund Asa Ware, Freedman`s Bureau Officer . . . — — Map (db m37094) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m9708) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m23265) HM
William Bartram Visits Augusta
1773 for Indian Ceded Lands Treaty.
1775 said . . . ."Augusta would become
the Metropolis of Georgia" — — Map (db m9762) HM
"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 . . . — — Map (db m9761) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m9987) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m27065) HM
West Side
Woodmen Of The World Memorial
In Sacred Memory Of The Men Of Richmond County Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice
World War I
[Left Column]
Louis L. Battey •
Claude A. Barker •
Wm. P. Battle, Jr. • . . . — — Map (db m10272) WM
[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?
. . . — — Map (db m10211) WM
[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} . . . — — Map (db m10057) HM
1818
The Georgia Legislature adopts measures that restrict African American property ownership and that require free persons of color to
register annually and pay a tax when moving into the state. The registry includes many residents of . . . — — Map (db m271413) HM
"I take my pen in hand to give you a sketch of the proceedings of the 1st day of January (The Freedmen's 4th of July) in the City of Augusta, we met a Springfield Church, it being the largest colored church in the city." -Robert Kent, . . . — — Map (db m271414) HM
1867
Reverend William Jefferson White and Richard Coulter establish Augusta Baptist Institute, later Atlanta's Morehouse College, at Springfield Baptist Church.
Two years later, the school relocates to Harmony Baptist near the intersection of . . . — — Map (db m271421) HM
1876
Across the Savannah River, deadly massacres in Hamburg and Ellenton mark a violent end to Reconstruction in South Carolina.
1879
Union Baptist Church is founded by former Springfield members. After violent threats,
Augusta Baptist . . . — — Map (db m271423) HM
-1883
Lucy Craft Laney establishes Haines Institute at Christ Presbyterian Church on Telfair
and 11th Streets. The school receives a charter in 1886.
-1884
Richard R. Wright and famed evangelist Reverend Charles T. Walker (1858-1921) . . . — — Map (db m272755) HM
-1894
The Negro State Teachers Association meets in Augusta.
-1895
Frederick Douglass dies. Booker T. Washington, the head of Tuskegee lastitute, delivers his famous "Atlanta Compromise" address.
The groundbreaking of the Lamar Hospital for . . . — — Map (db m272756) HM
-1898
As an early African American firm, Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company is founded with Walter Hornsby as the first General Manager. It played an instrumental business and civic role in Augusta until 1991.
-1898
Dr. James E. . . . — — Map (db m273402) HM
For the invention of the American Cotton Gin
A contribution to the resources of civilization and to the material welfare of The United States — — Map (db m10000) HM
Amanda America Dickson Toomer was born in Hancock County in 1849 to wealthy planter David Dickson and Julia, who was enslaved by Dickson's mother Elizabeth. Although conceived through the rape of her adolescent mother, Amanda was raised and educated . . . — — Map (db m200156) HM
[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 . . . — — Map (db m10063) WM
( 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 . . . — — Map (db m10085) HM
Prior to 1800, a market house stood on this site, called the
"Lower Market." Another market was built in 1826 called
the "Upper Market" seven blocks to the west. As the city
grew, a new market was built in 1826-27 but was destroyed
by fire in . . . — — Map (db m281982) HM
Sringfield Baptist Church and many Baptist churches in the surrounding community conducted baptism services in the nearby Savannah River. Richard Hunt's bronze sculpture and fountain installation, And They Went Down Both Into the Water, is . . . — — Map (db m271085) HM
With the end of the Civil War in 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Augusta to assist in establishing peace. As slavery's legal and economic defenses collapsed, the Springfield church emerged as a religious, social and political forum for black . . . — — Map (db m271084) HM
Education emerged as one of the most highly valued benefits of freedom for African Americans. While Springfield members conducted clandestine schools for black students before the Civil War, one of the first openly acknowledged schools for . . . — — Map (db m273390) HM
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