On Hillman Road (County Route 8) at A. H. Stephens Road NE (County Route 80), on the right when traveling north on Hillman Road.
"Little Alec,” Vice-President of the Confederacy, was born nearby in a log cabin Feb. 11, 1812, son of Andrew B. & Margaret Grier Stephens, a poor farm family. At his parents’ death he was educated by an uncle, Gen. A. W. Grier, at Washington, and . . . — — Map (db m24853) HM
On Memorial Drive, 0 miles north of Park Street, on the right when traveling north.
This school, one of the finest of the early Georgia Academies, was chartered by the Legislature, Dec. 26, 1826. First trustees were Archibald Gresham, R. Q. Dickinson, Wylie Womack, Hermon Mercer, Leonidas B. Mercer. Among the first masters were . . . — — Map (db m15747) HM
On Memorial Drive, 0.1 miles north of Park Street NW, on the right when traveling north.
This, the first Protestant Church in the Taliaferro area and originally called Bethel, was established in 1802 by Rev. Jesse Mercer and Rev. James Matthews on land given by William Janes, one of Georgia's largest planters. The first pastor was Rev. . . . — — Map (db m15733) HM
On Moore Street at Alexander Street, on the right when traveling east on Moore Street.
This church, originally known as "Bird's Chapel," was founded in 1826 as the first church in the newly formed town of Crawfordville. It was an outgrowth of the now defunct Powder Creek Meeting House near Sandy Cross, which came into existence about . . . — — Map (db m15288) HM
Liberty Hall
Has been designated a
National historic Landmark
This site possesses National significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America
1983
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m46025) HM
On Broad Street NE (U.S. 278) at Askin Street SE, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street NE.
On this site, Lot 17, provided for, in 1826, in the Town Plan by Hermon Mercer, who laid out the town of Crawfordville, a tavern, inn or hotel has stood continuously. The original tavern, built by Gilbert Rossignol, a refugee from the French . . . — — Map (db m21444) HM
On Alexander Street at Commerce Street on Alexander Street.
The renowned Georgia poetess, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, daughter of Col. William Nathaniel and Emma Smith Mercier, was born on this site in 1874. Educated at Washington Female Seminary and Mary Baldwin Seminary, she married distinguished N.Y. . . . — — Map (db m15255) HM
Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822–1898), educator and author, was born at Powelton. Later, his father moved to Crawfordville for better school facilities for his children. The Powelton home was torn down and reerected on this site. Johnston was . . . — — Map (db m15371) HM
On Sandy Cross Road NE at Hillman Road NE, on the right when traveling north on Sandy Cross Road NE.
At this crossroads stood the store and drug shop of Col. Robert Chivers, father of Georgia’s “lost poet,” Dr. Thomas Holley Chivers. Born at his father’s plantation home nearby in 1809, Dr. Chivers graduated in medicine at Transylvania . . . — — Map (db m24866) HM
On Broad Street (U.S. 278) at Monument Street, on the right when traveling west on Broad Street.
This County, created by an act of the Legislature Dec. 24, 1825, is named for Colonel Benjamin Taliaferro, Revolutionary soldier in Lee's Legion and a member of Congress from 1799 to 1802.
In this city stands Liberty Hall, now a State Shrine, . . . — — Map (db m15236) HM
On Broad Street (U.S. 278) at Alexander Street, on the right when traveling west on Broad Street.
1917-1918
Dedicated to those of Taliaferro County, GA. who offered their lives
in Humanity's defense
in the
War of the Nations
and in memory of
those who gave
their full measure
of devotion — — Map (db m15282) HM
On Monument Street at Broad Street (U.S. 278), on the left when traveling north on Monument Street.
In sacred memory of the men
of Taliaferro County who
made the supreme sacrifice
World War I
Roy Dozier
World War II
L.A. Cason
Henry C. Simons
Roger W. Gunn
Charles Roberts
On fames eternal camping ground, their silent . . . — — Map (db m32340) HM
On Broad Street (U.S. 278) at Monument street, on the right when traveling west on Broad Street.
The colonial road from Charleston to Vicksburg followed the highway at this point. The route, used by Col. Langdon Welch on his expedition to the Mississippi in 1698, was thereafter followed by British traders. Through Taliaferro Co., it followed . . . — — Map (db m15242) HM
On Greensboro Road (U.S. 278) 0.1 miles west of Robinson Church Road, on the left when traveling west.
Fifty yards from here, in a brick building, stood the gun shop of Henning Daniel Murden (1815-1903), who, during the War Between the States, made and supplied guns and molds to Confederate troops. Like virtually all rural gun shops in the South, it . . . — — Map (db m15277) HM
On Raytown Road NE (County Route 79) at Fairplay Road (County Route 81), on the left when traveling east on Raytown Road NE.
About 3/4 miles from here, in the Grier family cemetery, is the marked grave of Gen. Aaron Grier, born near here Dec. 2, 1794. When quite young, with Gen. Floyd, he fought the Creek Indians, distinguishing himself at the Battles of Autossee and . . . — — Map (db m24909) HM
On Lumburg Sharon Road (County Route 79) at Double Wells Road (County Route 21), on the right when traveling east on Lumburg Sharon Road.
Ray's Place, oldest community in Taliaferro County, was, in the late 1790's and early 1800's, a recreation center on Little River for the "livelier social set" of Washington. It was named for a Ray family from New York who lived in Washington for . . . — — Map (db m25124) HM
On Lower Mill Road (County Route 16) 0 miles west of Sheehan Road NE (County Route 17), on the left when traveling east.
This church is located in that part of the original Wilkes Circuit of 1786, “the cradle of Georgia Methodism,” from which Bishop Francis Asbury formed the Little River Circuit at the Camden, S. C. Conference in January 1802. The Raytown . . . — — Map (db m25129) HM
On Lumberg Sharon Road (County Route 79) 0.1 miles east of Fairplay Road (County Route 81), on the right when traveling east.
On this land, in the plantation home of his father, Aaron Grier, Sr., Revolutionary soldier, Robert Grier, founder of the nationally famous “Grier’s Almanac,” was born in 1782. The remarkable astronomical calculations which led to the . . . — — Map (db m25127) HM
On Barnett Road SE (Georgia Route 269) 0.1 miles south of Davidson Road, on the left when traveling south.
In 1820, several members of Liberty Church, Wilkes County, petitioned to form a new church, South Liberty, because of “distance, bad roads, high water in winter.” A log church was built in 1828 about 4 miles east of Sharon on land given . . . — — Map (db m24899) HM
On Washington Road (Georgia Route 47) 0.1 miles Raytown Road (County Route 21), on the right when traveling north.
In 1790 several Catholic families of English descent from Maryland settled near Locust Grove. They established the first Roman Catholic Church in Georgia and erected a log church in 1792. A priest, Father John LeMoin, was sent to it from Baltimore. . . . — — Map (db m24896) HM
