On Blackshear Highway (Georgia Route 203) west of Moore Street, on the right when traveling west.
Here stood a Confederate prison camp for Union prisoners of war. Established about November 18, 1864, the camp held more than five thousand prisoners until the first week of January, 1865. These prisoners were brought here from camps at Millen and . . . — — Map (db m1501) HM
On U.S. 84 near Gordon Street (State Road 15 /121), on the right when traveling west.
This County, created by Act of the Legislature December 18, 1857, is named for Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire Democrat and fourteenth President of the United States, 1853 to `57. He was a General in the Mexican War. Blackshear, incorporated December . . . — — Map (db m24037) HM
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