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By Mike Stroud, February 19, 2009
Camp Lawton Marker at Magnolia Springs State Park Headquarters
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1 ► Georgia, Jenkins County, Millen — Camp Lawton — Site of Camp Lawton —  |
| A Confederate military prison built in 1864 to relieve the overcrowded condition at Andersonville Prison in Macon County. Lawton Prison was a stockade, enclosing 42 acres. 1398 feet by 1329 feet considered to be the largest in the world. It was . . . — — Map (db m114323) HM | |||
| 2 ► Georgia, Jenkins County, Millen — Welcome to Magnolia Springs – The Civil War’s Camp Lawton — |
| In 1864, the Confederate States of America built a prisoner of war camp here. Named Camp Lawton, the stockade, designed to hold 40,000 prisoners, enclosed 42 acres. The first prisoners arrived from Andersonville in late September of 1864. Due to . . . — — Map (db m114315) HM | |||