May 15, 1864. Monty’s Brigade of Garrard’s Cav. scouting toward Rome in advance of the infantry column, Davis’ div. (14th A.C.) [US], encountered Brig. Gen. L.S. Ross’ Texas brigade (Jackson’s Cav. div.) [CS] at Farmer’s Bridge. Ross was driven to . . . — — Map (db m30563) HM
Everett Springs Seminary, antecedent of the famous Martha Berry Schools, was chartered in 1889 in Floyd County. The school, which was in existence until 1908, was the first mountain school in Georgia which had boarding facilities for its students. . . . — — Map (db m31361) HM
Seventeen white families from Georgia and Alabama illegally took possession of Cherokee homes here in the Beaver Dam settlement in February 1830. Cherokee Chief John Ross responded by sending a mounted police force, the Light Horse Brigade, to evict . . . — — Map (db m197528) HM
Chesapeake & Ohio RR Route: Dalton, Rome, Anniston, with stops in Cave Spring & Spring Garden, AL 1850s to post-Civil War.
• Southern RR operated the Dalton-Anniston line from 1894 to 1970s.
• Local historical documents show lively health spa . . . — — Map (db m197523) HM
In 1833, a deaf man, John Jacobus Flournoy, of Jackson County, great grandson of Jacob Flournoy, a French Huguenot, urging education for the deaf, interested Governor Wilson Lumpkin and the Georgia Legislature in the educational movement. At first . . . — — Map (db m47908) HM
The Cherokee Nation once spread across Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. It was home to thousands of men, women, and children. The 1830 Indian Removal Act required that the Cherokee surrender their land and move west. Many actively . . . — — Map (db m197525) HM
Buried in the grave sixty feet south of this point is Esther Post Butler. Born in Connecticut on September 15, 1795, Post married Dr. Elizur Butler, physician and minister, in October 1820. The Butlers were sent by the American Board of . . . — — Map (db m109589) HM
The first residence of missionaries sent in 1821 to establish the Turnip Mountain Mission to the Cherokees was located on this site, just north of the Cemetery wall. The mission, later known as Haweis, was built two miles to the east. Sardis . . . — — Map (db m11522) HM
Medora Field (1892-1960) was born nearby on the site of the present Lindale Baptist Church. In her early twenties she became a member of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine staff, and later was married to Angus Perkerson, its editor. . . . — — Map (db m46882) HM
Starting with a Sunday School in a log cabin one mile south of here, Martha Berry founded a boarding school for rural boys in 1902 on 83 acres of land, adding a school for girls in 1909. From this humble beginning, Berry College grew and, during . . . — — Map (db m47471) HM
John Henry Towers was born at this site on January 30, 1885. Reared in Rome,
Towers graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906. As one of the Navy's
pioneer aviators, Towers set early records for flying. Preceding Charles
Lindbergh's historic . . . — — Map (db m171065) HM
Dedicated
to the memory of
our fellow workers
who died defending
America's eternal
freedoms
men from
Anchor Duck Mills
James Wm. Adams 1922-1944 • Robert L. Etheridge 1921-1944 • Jack A. Gunter 1917-1942 • Doyce F. . . . — — Map (db m171107) WM
This tablet was placed here by
Xavier Chapter
Daughters of the American
Revolution
Oct. 10, 1901
to mark the battlefield on
which in Oct. 12, 1793
Gen'l John Sevier
met and conquered
the Indians
under their leader
King . . . — — Map (db m171090) HM
From the mill’s construction in 1930, students under the supervision of a miller used the Old Mill to produce corn meal and food stuffs for the Berry Schools. The Republic Mining and Manufacturing Company donated the iron hub, while students built . . . — — Map (db m9488) HM
At this house’s core is the 1790s log home of Major Ridge (c.1771-1839), a leader in the Cherokee Nation. His 223-acre plantation supported numerous outbuildings, orchards and slaves while the family served as ferryboat operators and merchants. It . . . — — Map (db m14981) HM
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 while teaching in Georgia. His invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the economy of the American South. With the cotton gin it became easier and quicker to separate the fiber from the seed. Before the . . . — — Map (db m171083) HM
May 16, 1864. Brig. Gen. J.C. Davis’ div. (14th A.C.) [US] left Sugar Valley via roads west of the Oostanaula River to outflank Johnston’s forces [CS] retreating from Resaca.
Davis had been informed that Farmer’s Bridge on Armuchee Cr. was an . . . — — Map (db m30825) HM
In May 1539 Hernando de Soto landed in Florida with over 600 people, 220 horses and mules, and a herd of swine reserved for famine. Fired by his success in Pizarro's conquest of Peru. De Soto had been granted the rights, by the King of . . . — — Map (db m30462) HM
Ellen Axson Wilson was First Lady of the United States (1913-1914) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson became our 28th President. She grew up in Rome, where her father, the Rev. Samuel Edward Axson, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. . . . — — Map (db m171076) HM
Born in Savannah, Georgia, May 15, 1860
Moved to Rome, Georgia, March 1866
Graduated from Rome Female College, 1876
Attended New York Art Students League, 1884-1885
Her father, The Rev. Mr. Samuel Edward Axson was pastor of Rome’s . . . — — Map (db m39430) HM
May 18, 1864. Davis’ div., (14th A.C.) [US], moving from Resaca via W. bank of the Oostanaula, forced passage of the river against Confederate opposition & captured the city.
Davis’ seizure of Rome was incident to a move E. toward Kingston upon . . . — — Map (db m30826) HM
Floyd County was created by Act of Dec. 3, 1832 out of Cherokee County. Originally, it included parts of Chattooga, Polk and Gordon Counties. Early settlers came from Tenn., S.C., and older parts of Ga. The county was named for Maj. Gen. John Floyd . . . — — Map (db m30671) HM
In memorial to the young men of Floyd County
who responded to their country's call in the
1917 World's War 1919
and in memory of those who gave their lives
Thomas E. Crafton • William J. Attaway • Carl Davis • James P. Weeems • A. . . . — — Map (db m171066) WM
May 16, 1864. Maj. Gen. S.G. French, in person, reached Rome from Ala., enroute with his div. (Polk’s A.C.), to join Johnston’s army [CS] at Cassville. Sears’ brigade was sent to Kingston that night.
May 17. Ector’s, resisting Davis’ approach on . . . — — Map (db m30828) HM
Thomas E.G. Ransom enlisted as captain of Company E, 11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1861. Wounded four times, he won honors at Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Red River. Rising steadily through the ranks, Ransom led the 17th Corps, Army of . . . — — Map (db m111658) HM
Along this road John H. Wisdom rode from Gadsden, Ala. to warn that a Federal force of over 2,000 men was approaching Rome to occupy the town, destroy foundries making ammunition for the Confederates and to cut Confederate communications (May 2, . . . — — Map (db m30626) HM
Pvt. Charles W. Graves
In March, 1922 the troopship Cambria returned the final 1,065 bodies of the known dead to the United States. The last body removed was Charles W. Graves, designated as “Representative of the Nation's Known Dead . . . — — Map (db m171150) WM
Home of Joseph Watters (1792 - 1866), pioneer settler in Floyd County; an admirer of Andrew Jackson, he named it 'Hermitage.' A settlement of that name is 1 mi. S.E. May 17, 18, 1864: Brig. Gen. K. Garrard's (2d) div. of Elliott's Cavalry Corps, . . . — — Map (db m11455) HM
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Tribe of Indians, moved to this spot about 1794 and built this dwelling. Modernized by later owners.
His ferry & trading post made this farm a tribal center. Here was negotiated final treaty for the Cherokee . . . — — Map (db m15071) HM
Martha Berry, founder of the Berry Schools, was born and lived here at “Oak Hill.” Daughter of Capt. Tom Berry, wealthy plantation owner, she devoted her life to providing educational opportunities for the children of her less fortunate . . . — — Map (db m31330) HM
Myrtle Hill Cemetery
The City of Rome established Myrtle Hill Cemetery in 1857, successor to Rome's first burial place, Oak Hill Cemetery/West Seventh Avenue. Originally Myrtle Hill did not include this triangular area at the foot of the . . . — — Map (db m171109) HM
Since 1872, the original, mechanical clockworks that serve as the centerpiece of this museum have been keeping time in Rome's most famous landmark, the Old Town Clock. The City
Clock, as the tower is popularly known, houses a 250,000 gallon water . . . — — Map (db m171072) HM
Opera Alley was a walkway adjacent to the Nevin Opera House at 321 Broad Street. The opera house, which opened in September of 1880, was built by Mr. M.A. Nevin. The alley, donated to the city by Mr. Nevin was officially declared a city . . . — — Map (db m12318) HM
This cabin, birthplace of The Berry Schools, (now Berry College and Berry Academy) was built as a playhouse for Martha Berry and her brothers and sisters shortly after the Civil War. Here, in the late 1800’s, three small boys from Lavendar Mountain . . . — — Map (db m88397) HM
“You triumphed over obstacles
which would have overcome men
less brave and determined”
President McKinley
Dedicated to the veterans
of 1898 to 1902 by Department of Georgia
National Auxiliary United Spanish . . . — — Map (db m171069) WM
"They went with songs to battle, they were young
straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds
uncounted. They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall not grow old as we grow old;
Age . . . — — Map (db m171148) WM
I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States of America Time Line of Wars
1775-1783 American Revolution • 1812-1815 War of 1812 • 1846-1847 Mexican War • 1861-1865 American Civil War • . . . — — Map (db m171145) HM WM
Located on the south side of Broad Street at First Avenue on the banks of the Etowah River in downtown Rome was the Noble Brothers and Company foundry, one of the most iron manufacturing businesses in the South. English-born James Noble, Sr. and his . . . — — Map (db m171078) HM
Situated on one of Rome's seven hills in the center of the city and atop the first water reservoir. The reservoir was designed by Mr. John Noble to serve the new water system installed in 1871. The picturesque clock was made by the E. Howard Clock . . . — — Map (db m171073) HM
Vonalbade Gammon (b. 1879), a Rome native, entered UGA in 1896. He quarterbacked UGA's undefeated team coached by Glenn “Pop” Warner, and played against Auburn coached by John
Heisman, on October 30, 1897. In a game with UVa, Von . . . — — Map (db m171075) HM
Vietnam
Ayers, Lesley S. • Blanton, B. Alexander • Brock, James A. • Covington, William L. • Dixon, Donald W. • English, William W. Jr. • Finley, William E. • Fowler, William R. • Gantt, Johnny E. • Gollahon, John D. • Hall, Judson • Hayes, . . . — — Map (db m171146) WM
