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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Barrow County, Georgia
Adjacent to Barrow County, Georgia
▶ Athens-Clarke County (42) ▶ Gwinnett County (36) ▶ Hall County (22) ▶ Jackson County (7) ▶ Oconee County (8) ▶ Walton County (12)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On 6th Avenue at 7th Street, on the right when traveling east on 6th Avenue. |
| | Perry-Rainey Institute founded 1892 by Mulberry Baptist Assn. at Appalachee Baptist Church, Auburn.
Predecessors of Perry-Rainey Institute - Harmony Grove Academy, Mulberry High School and Perry-Rainey College.
Named for Reverend Hiram . . . — — Map (db m14883) HM |
| Near Christmas Avenue (Georgia Route 11) at Manger Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Oldest Methodist Church in Barrow County, organized in the 1780’s. Services first held two miles N.E. in log house. In 1790 a church was built nearby. The present site was originally a camp ground with an arbor, tents & cottages for camp meetings. . . . — — Map (db m46843) HM |
| On Old Thompson Mill Road 0.1 miles south of Farm Market Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Clayborn Dalton built an arbor for public Worship across Mulberry River in Jackson County in the early 1800’s. It was called “Dalton’s Stand”. In 1813 the church was moved on this side of Mulberry River near the Maynard Cemetery. Rev. . . . — — Map (db m16125) HM |
| On Winder Highway (State Highway 11). |
| | This is the same road over which marched the famous Gen. Andrew Jackson.
This marker erected April 1926
By Georgia Daughters of The American Revolution.
Atlanta Chapter, Atlanta, and Sunbury Chapter Winder. — — Map (db m19769) HM |
| On Broad Street 0 miles east of Elizabeth Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Educator; 52 years service in education. Born Feb. 12, 1900 Ila, Ga., Graduate of University of Georgia. Taught: Maysville, Cornelia, Buford 1920-1933. Principal - Coach Statham School 1933 - 1957. Supt. Barrow County Schools 1957 - 1965. Professor . . . — — Map (db m17364) HM |
| On Broad Street at Wise Court, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street. |
| | Built circa 1850. Owned by M. John C. Statham. He provided homes for widows of Civil War Veterans; donated land for right-of-way of railroad; streets for town, and a lot for a Methodist Church -- now the city cemetery. Statham, incorporated Dec. 20, . . . — — Map (db m17348) HM |
| On Georgia Route 82 at milepost 4, 0.1 miles east of Steed Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Served 3 years in Revolutionary War from Dinwiddie Co., Va. in Buford’s Detachment.
Lost an arm at Waxhaws, May 29, 1780.
Remembered as successful business man, educator and civic worker, but most outstanding as devout Methodist minister. . . . — — Map (db m19763) HM |
| On North Broad Street (Georgia Route 11) at West Athens Street (Georgia Route 211), on the right when traveling south on North Broad Street. |
| | Barrow County was created by Act of July 7, 1914 from Gwinnett, Jackson and Walton Counties. It was named for David Crenshaw Barrow, Chancellor of the University of Georgia for many years. Born in Oglethorpe County, October 18, 1852, he died in . . . — — Map (db m19070) HM |
| On Thompson Mill Road (Georgia Route 211) 0.1 miles north of Will Maynard Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On July 31, 1864, at the Battle of Sunshine Church (19 miles NE of Macon), Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman [US] surrendered with 600 men to Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., [CS], after covering the escape of Adams’ and Capron’s brigades of his cavalry . . . — — Map (db m23454) HM |
| On Porter Street 0 miles west of North Broad Street (Georgia Route 53), on the right when traveling east. |
| | This steam locomotive was presented to the City of Winder and Barrow County in 1959 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company. It was placed here as a permanent exhibit in memory of the important service engines of this type rendered to the country. . . . — — Map (db m14528) HM |
| On West Athens Street (Georgia Route 211) 0 miles east of Church Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | In 1836 Byrd Betts, Pioneer Steward of the Concord Methodist Church, later to become the First Methodist Church of Winder, gave 10 acres land for the church and cemetery. Those known buried here.
Susan, Wife of S. E. . . . — — Map (db m17407) HM |
| On Broad Street 0.4 miles south of South Broad Street (Georgia Route 81), on the left when traveling south. |
| | This remarkably preserved log blockhouse was built in 1793, according to historians. There are several references to Fort Yargo as existing prior to 1800. Its location is given as three miles southwest of “Jug Tavern,” original name for . . . — — Map (db m22396) HM |
| On King Street at Wood Street, on the right when traveling north on King Street. |
| | Glenwood Elementary and High School was established in 1951 as one of Georgia’s first public consolidated schools for African Americans. Part of a statewide equalization effort to improve school buildings and preserve segregation, Glenwood became . . . — — Map (db m56487) HM |
| On Gainesville Highway (Georgia Route 53) at Rockwell Church Road, on the right when traveling north on Gainesville Highway. |
| | Organized 1839 — second oldest Universalist Church in Georgia. Located here near original site of Rockwell School, oldest school in this section, and Rockwell Masonic Lodge. Confederate Soldiers enlisted and drilled here 1861-1865. Church . . . — — Map (db m19548) HM |
| On Atlanta Highway SE (U.S. 29) 0 miles east of Russell Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Russell House was built in 1912 by Richard Brevard Russell, Sr., B. 1861 - D. 1938, and his wife, Ina Dillard, B. 1868 - D. 1953, who were married June 24, 1891. Fifteen children were born of this marriage. Judge Russell was elected Chief . . . — — Map (db m17288) HM |
| On North Broad Street (Georgia Route 11) at Laura Street, on the right when traveling south on North Broad 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 Macon railway by which its defenders were . . . — — Map (db m17307) HM |
| On West Athens Street (Georgia Route 211) at Church Street, on the left when traveling east on West Athens Street. |
| | For years inestimable the CREEK INDIAN VILLAGE of SNODON stood here. In 1793 ALONZO DRAPER, HOMER JACKSON and HERMAN SCUPEEN and their families became the first white people to establish homes in SNODON. This same year SNODON became JUG TAVERN. In . . . — — Map (db m17349) HM |
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