On West Main Street (Georgia Route 137) at South Broad Street (U.S. 19) when traveling east on West Main Street.
Taylor County was created by Act of Jan. 15, 1852 from parts of Macon, Marion and Talbot Counties. It was named for Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the U.S., Major-General, Commander of the Army of the Rio Grande. Known as “Old . . . — — Map (db m27232) HM
On Georgia Route 137 0.2 miles east of Fickling Mill Road, on the right when traveling west.
The Wire Road, named for a line of telegraph wire once stretched along it, formed a part of the stage highway from Richmond to New Orleans. About 3 miles from the Flint River on this road is the Crowell Methodist Church, founded in 1826, on the site . . . — — Map (db m27181) HM
On U.S. 19 0.1 miles south of Jack Peed Road, on the right when traveling south.
The sand clay formation here represents the first prominent Coastal Plain deposits laid upon an ancient floor of granites and gneisses. Southward this formation (Tuscaloosa Upper Cretaceous) becomes more and more deeply buried and contains marine . . . — — Map (db m27177) HM
On Georgia Route 137 at Fickling Mill Road, on the right when traveling west on State Route 137.
In 1775 during the travels of botanist William Bartram he first discovered golden St. John’s wort (his Hypericum aureum) near this site on Patsiliga Creek — — Map (db m28057) HM
On Marion Street (Georgia Route 96) at S. Gen. John B. Gordon Road (County Route 269), on the right when traveling east on Marion Street.
General John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), CSA, lawyer, statesman, owned this farm, “Beechwood,” from 1888 until his death. Here he raised Texas ponies, goats, horses and cattle. For a time he lived in “the old John D. Mitchell . . . — — Map (db m81037) HM
On Crowell Road (Georgia Route 283) 0 miles south of Georgia Route 137, on the left when traveling south.
In 1936, a group of farmers in the Crowell area investigated the possibility of bringing electric service to the community. In 1937, they formed Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative with a loan from the Rural Electrification Administration to . . . — — Map (db m14510) HM
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