On Main Street/College Street at Old Post Road, on the right when traveling south on Main Street/College Street.
World famous surgeon, teacher and research scientist was born in Culloden, Georgia April 5, 1899 and educated at Georgia Military College, the University of Georgia and Johns Hopkins Medical School. He completed his surgical training at Vanderbilt . . . — — Map (db m9980) HM
On Church Street 0.2 miles west of Lockett Street, on the left when traveling west.
On April 19, 1865, a part of Wilson`s Federal Raiders, moving toward Macon, encountered the "Worrill Grays" near this spot. The "Grays," numbering less than 200 men, fought a magnificent battle, greatly outnumbered. After a two-hour battle they . . . — — Map (db m9930) HM
On Dames Ferry Road (Georgia Route 18) at Old Dames Ferry Road (County Route 42), on the left when traveling east on Dames Ferry Road.
In 1808, widow Mary Green Dame and her six children settled in Jones County. Two sons, George and John, builders by trade, built a house on the east side of the Ocmulgee River. Zachariah Booth owned and operated the first ferry here. It was . . . — — Map (db m10087) HM
On Tift College Drive at Indian Springs Drive, on the right when traveling west on Tift College Drive.
In 1864-1865 the buildings and grounds of this institution then known as Monroe Female College were used as a Confederate hospital, while classes met in private homes — — Map (db m59583) HM
On Newton Memorial Drive east of South Lee Street (Georgia Route 42), on the right when traveling east.
Here sleep "Known but to God," 299 unknown Confederate soldiers and one known. Most of these men, veterans of many hard fought battles, died in the several Confederate hospitals located in this town. Here is also buried a gallant Confederate girl, . . . — — Map (db m417) HM
On Brooklyn Avenue (U.S. 41) at Rowland Lane, on the right when traveling south on Brooklyn Avenue.
100 yards southeast is the location of a Confederate Hospital Camp established in the summer of 1864. Soldiers wounded in battles around Atlanta were brought by train to Forsyth. The buildings at the college and other buildings in Forsyth were soon . . . — — Map (db m22486) HM
On West Johnson Street at North Jackson Street, on the left when traveling west on West Johnson Street.
Forsyth, County Seat of Monroe County, was incorporated by Act of Legislature in 1823. It is in almost the exact geographical center of the State. First commissioners were James S. Phillips, Henry H. Lumpkin, John E. Bailey, Anderson Baldwin and . . . — — Map (db m25945) HM
On Brooklyn Avenue (U.S. 41) 0.1 miles from South Bennett Street, on the right when traveling south.
On Nov. 16, 1864, Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, CSA, reached Griffin (30 miles NW) after a night withdrawal from Lovejoy’s Station (13 miles N of Griffin) where he had been posted to support Iverson’s division of Wheeler’s cavalry [CS] which was watching . . . — — Map (db m25655) HM
On Georgia Route 42 0.4 miles south of Old Indian Springs Road, on the left when traveling north.
On Nov. 17, 1864, Kilpatrick’s cavalry division [US], which was covering the right flank of Gen. Sherman’s army on its March to the Sea, moved from Bear Creek Station (Hampton) 31 mi. NW, down the north bank of Towaliga River to threaten Griffin and . . . — — Map (db m26947) HM
On South Jackson Street at West Main Street (U.S. 41), on the left when traveling south on South Jackson Street.
Created by Act of May 15, 1821, Monroe County, an original county containing all of Pike and parts of Bibb, Butts and Lamar Counties, was ceded by the Creek Indians in early 1821. Laid out by the Lottery Act, it was rapidly occupied by large numbers . . . — — Map (db m25941) HM
On Georgia Route 83 0.2 miles south of Washington Drive, on the left when traveling south.
Founded in 1902 by William M. Hubbard, STAC was one of the state’s official schools for the instruction of black teachers between 1931 and 1938. Originally named the Forsyth Normal and Industrial School, STAC was one of three black public colleges . . . — — Map (db m15039) HM
On Tift College Drive at Dungan Street, on the right when traveling west on Tift College Drive.
Chartered in 1849 as Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute, Tift College was one of the group of colleges pioneering in the education of women. Known for 50 years as Monroe College, the name was changed in 1907 to Bessie Tift College, honoring a . . . — — Map (db m25657) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 41) at South Jackson Street, on the left when traveling east on West Main Street.
One block east stood the old office of The Monroe Advertiser, where Joel Chandler Harris, creator of “Uncle Remus,” came in 1867, as a boy of nineteen, to work until 1870. Here he advanced from printer’s devil to accomplished . . . — — Map (db m25354) HM
On Thomaston Road (Georgia Route 74) 0.2 miles west of Lower Thomaston Road, on the right when traveling west.
Montpelier Institute, founded in 1842 by Stephen Elliott, Jr., First Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of Georgia, was Georgia's second oldest school for girls. Col. G.B. Lamar gave the land for the school including Montpelier Springs, long noted as a . . . — — Map (db m9929) HM
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