On Macon Highway (U.S. 129) 1 mile south of Price Mill Road, on the right when traveling south.
Just west of this marker is the grave of John Andrew who was a Revolutionary War soldier who fought in Georgia and South Carolina and served in the Georgia House of Assembly in 1783. He was a very early native Georgian (some say the first) to become . . . — — Map (db m17256) HM
On South Main Street (Georgia Route 24) 0 miles south of Greensboro Highway (Georgia Route 15), on the right when traveling south.
This house, about 150 years old, was the birthplace of Bishop Atticus Green Haygood in 1839 and his sister, Laura Askew Haygood, in 1845. Bishop Haygood was chaplain and missionary to the Army, 1861-65; President of Emory College, 1876-84; editor . . . — — Map (db m21428) HM
On Colham Ferry Road at Morrison Street, on the right when traveling south on Colham Ferry Road.
E.D. Stroud School was established in 1956 as part of a statewide “equalization” effort for Georgia’s African-American public schools. As part of Georgia’s massive resistance to federally mandated school integration, politicians and . . . — — Map (db m108666) HM
On North Main Street (Georgia Route 15) at Third Street North, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
Eagle Tavern, or Hotel, was the center of social and political life in Watkinsville for more than a hundred years. It was saved from destruction in 1934 by Lanier Richardson Billups of Decatur, Georgia, who deeded it to the State in 1956.
The . . . — — Map (db m14081) HM
On Elder Mill Road 0.3 miles north of Saxon Road, on the right when traveling north.
Built in 1897 by Nathaniel Richardson, this 99-foot-long bridge originally carried the Watkinsville-Athens Road over Calls Creek. It was moved here to
Rose Creek in 1924 and the road was relocated to its present site. The nearby c. 1900 grist mill . . . — — Map (db m14945) HM
On Mars Hill Road 0.2 miles west of Hog Mountain Road (Georgia Route 53), on the right.
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) was the first woman to serve in Congress: being elected from Montana in 1916 before women had the right to vote in other states. She was active in women's suffrage and was a peace advocate who opposed all war. She was . . . — — Map (db m14079) HM
On North Main Street (Georgia Route 15) at Court Street, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.
This County, created by Act of the Legislature February 25, 1875, is named for the Oconee River which forms its eastern boundary. In 1801 Watkinsville was made County Site of Clarke County but in 1875 the Clarke County Site was changed to Athens. As . . . — — Map (db m21407) HM
On North Main Street (Georgia Route 15) at Third Street North, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
Closing in on Atlanta in July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman found it “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest.” To force its evacuation, he sent
Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman's cavalry [US] to cut the railway to Macon by which its . . . — — Map (db m14084) HM
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