On Georgia Route 22 near Main Street, on the left when traveling north.
In this area stood the home of Charles James McDonald, elected Governor of Georgia in 1839 and 1841. "Fearless and guided by practical wisdom and integrity," he was Solicitor-General of the Flint Circuit. Judge of the Superior Court, State . . . — — Map (db m48941) HM
On Powelton Road (Georgia Route 22) at Reynolds Road, on the right when traveling north on Powelton Road.
The home of William Rabun, Governor of Georgia 1817-1819. Born in Halifax County, N.C., April 8, 1771, Governor Rabun moved to Wilkes Co., Ga., in 1785. Having the usual backwoods schooling of his day, he acquired by reading and observation, . . . — — Map (db m13347) HM
On Powelton Road (Georgia Route 22) at Jones Bridge Road, on the right when traveling north on Powelton Road.
The Powelton Baptist Church, first known as Powell's Creek Church, was constituted July 1st, 1786, with 26 members by the Rev. Silas Mercer, the Rev. John Harvey, and the Rev. John Thomas. The Rev. Jesse Mercer became pastor of this church on . . . — — Map (db m13346) HM
On Jones Street, on the right when traveling north.
At “Old Dominion”, then the home of John Lucas, in late December 1806, the first meeting of the Methodist North Georgia Conference was held. Although Sparta then was the extreme western appointment in the conference, preachers came from . . . — — Map (db m55552) HM
On Georgia Route 16 at milepost 5, on the right when traveling west.
In July 1858 an Irish Foxhound arrived in Georgia as a gift from the noted hunter, Nimrod Gosnell of Roxbury Mills, Maryland to Colonel Miles G. Harris of Hancock County. The male puppy was named “July.” Col. Harris invited fox hunters . . . — — Map (db m9486) HM
On Linton Road, 0.3 miles south of Pearson Chapel Road, on the right when traveling south.
Confederate Colonel Theophilus Jackson Smith built Glen Mary as a gift to his wife, Mary Salome Gonder. The estate would become a major cotton producer in Middle Georgia before the Civil War. The house is considered by many as the finest Greek . . . — — Map (db m106811) HM
On Georgia Route 15 at Fairmont Road, on the right when traveling south on State Route 15.
William Jonathan Northen, Governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, lived in this house. Born in Jones County, July 9, 1835 of Scotch ancestry, Governor Northen graduated from Mercer University. He taught for many years at Mt. Zion School in Hancock . . . — — Map (db m24076) HM
On Broad Street (Georgia Route 15/16) at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street.
Hancock County, created by Act of Dec. 17, 1793, was named for John Hancock of Mass., President of Continental Congress and the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence. It has been the home of 4 Governors of Ga. -- William Rabun, Charles . . . — — Map (db m24332) HM
Near State Highway 15 at Sigman Road, on the right when traveling south.
The Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church organized in 1813. $700 was raised in 1814 to complete the building. Services were held here until 1903 when the membership had dwindled from 130 to less than 10. That year the Church property was sold to the . . . — — Map (db m227219) HM
On Georgia Route 15 at Sigman Road, on the right when traveling south on State Route 15.
Nathan Sidney Beman, Presbyterian minister, educator, editor, college president, after graduating from Middlebury College, Vermont, taught and preached in New England until 1812, when he came with his wife to Georgia to regain his health. “A man of . . . — — Map (db m24083) HM
On Broad Street (Georgia Route 15/16) at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street.
The Eagle Tavern, built in the late 18th century, once stood on the site of the present Lafayette Hotel. A stage coach stop on the Augusta to Macon line, the tavern owned by a Mr. A. Abercrombie was the scene of a great ball held for the Marquis de . . . — — Map (db m24334) HM
On East Hamilton Street at Boland Street, on the right when traveling east on East Hamilton Street.
The first regular appointment for Sparta as a preaching place on a circuit was in 1799 with George Dougherty, one of the great preachers of the period as pastor. In 1802, Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the courthouse.
In 1806, the South . . . — — Map (db m48905) HM
On Augusta Highway (Georgia Route 16 at milepost 15), 0.1 miles west of Duggan Road, on the right when traveling east.
About 1 mi. from here, Richard Malcolm Johnston, lawyer, educator, and author, operated Rockby, a school for boys revolutionary in its day. Disgusted with the harsh disciplinary methods of the time, Johnston instituted an honor system whereby . . . — — Map (db m24172) HM
On Georgia Route 16 at Georgia Route 77, on the right when traveling west on State Route 16.
Near the mouth of Shoulder-bone Creek on the banks of the Oconee River a treaty of "amity, peace and commerce" was signed by eight commissioners representing the State of Georgia and 59 head men of the Creek Confederation, November 3, 1786. Among . . . — — Map (db m186657) HM
On Broad Street (Georgia Route 15/16) 0 miles east of Boland Street, on the right when traveling east.
Sparta, Seat of Justice for Hancock County in 1795, became a chartered town, Dec. 3, 1803. Situated at an Indian trading post, in constant danger of border trouble, the town was named Sparta to indicate the bravery of its pioneer citizens. In 1864 . . . — — Map (db m24343) HM
On Hamilton Street at Boland Street, on the left when traveling east on Hamilton Street.
The main cemetery in Sparta was established on property deeded to the town in 1806. Burials illustrate a common nineteenth-century pattern of migration to the area, as settlers from New England and Virginia moved south and west through the Carolinas . . . — — Map (db m13378) HM
On Georgia Route 16, 0.3 miles east of Green Springs Road, on the right when traveling east.
The Upper Trading Path, one of the historic Indian ways of the Southeast, passed here, leading westward from present Augusta to tribes as far away as the Mississippi River. By various connections the route reached the Muscogees of Western Georgia . . . — — Map (db m48878) HM
On Springfield Road, 0.1 miles north of Spingfield-Log Cabin Road, on the left when traveling north.
Zack Hubert, a former Warren County slave, moved here with his family in 1871. The Huberts were among the first African-American landowners in central Georgia and played influential roles in the area's African-American community. They named their . . . — — Map (db m49413) HM
