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Decatur is the county seat for DeKalb County
101 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — So, What Happened Here? — |
On June 3, 1996, as part of the Centennial Olympic Games Celebration, a massive bronze sculpture of five thoroughbred horses running through the collapsed Berlin Wall was unveiled on this spot. The piece was 18 feet wide by 12 feet high and weighted . . . — — Map (db m207802) HM |
102 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — Stone Mountain - Confederate Memorial — |
Tablet #1 There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done - the honor of the integrity of principle. Robert E. Lee Tablet #2 So, my son, when in the conflict of life - the cloud and the darkness come, stand . . . — — Map (db m87443) WM |
103 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — L1 — Stone Mountain Cemetery — Forever Comrades — March to the Sea Heritage Trail — |
On July 18 & 19, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign, Union Brigadier General Kenner Garrard's cavalry division raided Stone Mountain. They skirmished with the Confederate cavalry brigade of Colonel George G. Dibrell, destroyed two miles of railroad . . . — — Map (db m113346) HM |
104 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — The Country Comes Before Me — |
Tablet #1 The richer, the wiser, the more powerful a man is, the greater is the obligation upon him to employ his gifts in the lessening of that sum of human misery. John Randolph Tablet #2 Those who labor in the earth . . . — — Map (db m87449) WM |
105 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — 044-87 — The March to the Sea — Reported missing |
On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [US] into two wings. The Right Wing . . . — — Map (db m206697) HM |
106 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — Thornton House — Greene County, Georgia — |
Redmon Thornton and his wife Sarah Alford Thornton built this house in Greene County, Georgia after they moved to the area from Virginia. The house dates to around 1792, when George Washington was president. They had four children together and a . . . — — Map (db m208583) HM |
107 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain — 044-42A — Unknown Confederate Dead — |
Here sleep, known but to God, approximately one hundred and fifty Confederate soldiers, most of whom died from disease, or wounds in the Confederate hospitals that were located near this spot. Some were killed in a skirmish with Federal raiders near . . . — — Map (db m33798) HM |
108 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Tucker — 044-14 — Browning's Court House — |
At or near this crossroads stood the J.P. office of Browning’s Militia District No. 572; cited in reports of Federal military operations July, 1864, as Browning’s Court House. July 18. Logan’s 15th A.C., enroute from Roswell to Decatur, detoured . . . — — Map (db m9925) HM |
109 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Tucker — 044-22 — Federal Left Wing to Decatur — |
July 19, 1864. The 15th & 17th, two of three corps, McPherson’s Army of the Tenn., forming the left wing of Sherman’s forces advancing on Atlanta, came this way on the last day of their march from Roswell to Decatur. The other corps, Dodge’s . . . — — Map (db m50393) HM |
110 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Tucker — 044-15 — Garrard & Lightburn to Stone Mountain — |
The principal object of the wide swing of Federal forces S.E. from Roswell, where they crossed the Chattahoochee, was to cut the Ga. R.R. at & near Stone Mountain, thereby isolating Atlanta from the east. Pursuant to plan, Logan’s 15th A.C. was . . . — — Map (db m9924) HM |
111 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Tucker — 044-9 — Logan’s 15th Corps & Garrard’s Cavalry — |
July 18, 1864. Logan’s 15th A.C., Army of the Tennessee [US], having detoured from the old Shallow Ford Rd. at the Rainey plantation (4 mi. W.) moved to this point where it joined Garrard’s cav. which, via McAfee's bridge (Chattahoochee River) & . . . — — Map (db m33804) HM |
112 ► Georgia, DeKalb County, Tucker — 044-17 — Logan’s Corps Moves to Henderson’s Mill — |
July 18, 1864. Logan’s troops, having detoured from Shallow Fd. Rd. to Browning’s Court House (TUCKER), to co-operate with Garrard’s cav, in the destruction of the Georgia R.R. at Stone Mtn., remained in this vicinity while Lightburn’s brigade was . . . — — Map (db m29106) HM |
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