Near this site is the plantation and grave site of John Hatcher, Georgia patriot, Revolutionary War soldier and statesman. From 1780 to 1800 he served in Candler’s Refugee Regiment of Richmond County, the Georgia Militia, Carr’s Rangers of Burke . . . — — Map (db m13080) HM
The game is yet in our own hands; to play it well is all we have to do – nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people.
George Washington — — Map (db m59851) HM
Dr. Lyman Hall was a Georgia signer of The Declaration Of Independence. He represented Saint John's Parish in the Continental Congress, and was a delegate from Georgia to the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia.
He was a founder . . . — — Map (db m8785) HM
Ivanhoe Plantation was established in 1765 by a Crown Grant to Thomas Whitehead from King George III of England. The plantation is located 3 or 4 miles east of Waynesboro, Georgia and 15 miles along Brier Creek going down stream. The grant . . . — — Map (db m103303) HM
Attorney Judson Whitlocke Lyons was the first Black lawyer in the
State of Georgia. He was born in Burke County, but lived most of his
life in Augusta. He was a graduate of Augusta Institute
(now Morehouse College) and Howard University Law . . . — — Map (db m227151) HM
Born Feb. 3, 1808 in Burke County, Georgia. Came to Texas in 1835. Joined the Army of Texas after signing the Declaration of Independence. First county clerk of San Augustine County First district clerk of the First Judicial District Died, February . . . — — Map (db m221324) HM
Born into poverty in Edgefield, South Carolina, fewer than ten years after
the Civil War, he became one of the wealthiest men in the Augusta area.
In South Carolina, he owned a 420-acre tract of land, farms in
Beech Island and Sumter, and . . . — — Map (db m227143) HM
This boulder is placed by
The Wayside Home Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy
of Jenkins County, Georgia and
The Margaret Jones Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy
of Burke County, Georgia
to perpetuate the name of . . . — — Map (db m221766) HM
About four miles southeast is the site of the American Revolutionary Battle of Long Cane. On December 12, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Allen and a British force of 400-500 men defeated Colonel Elijah Clarke and 100 Americans, an advanced . . . — — Map (db m241074) HM
Constituted in the early part of 1788, Bark Camp Baptist Church was a center for culture and hospitality in Bark Camp, one of the oldest settlements in Burke County and a community of wealthy and prominent plantation owners. Among the 29 charter . . . — — Map (db m44549) HM
Reared in Burke County, Georgia.
Mills, like his Dublin-born father
John, fought for independence.
John served in Collier's Regt. of
N.C. Militia and Mills served in his
local militia company. After the
bitter hostilities of the . . . — — Map (db m64127) HM WM
John Tate, born in Ireland in 1758, came to America in 1763. He volunteered for the Pennsylvania Militia in December 1776 from Shippensburg, Cumberland County, PA. He served as a private with Captain Robert Culbertson and later, at the Battle of . . . — — Map (db m315011) HM
Jared Irwin, Statesman and twice Governor of Georgia, moved from Mecklenburg Country, N.C to Burke County, Ga. as a child. Commissioned a brigadier general during the Revolutionary War, he distinguished himself following the War as an Indian . . . — — Map (db m35502) HM
When a new building was completed in 1939, the name of this church, established in 1844 as Prospect Methodist Church, was changed to Allen-Lee Memorial Methodist Church to honor two of its illustrious members, Dr. Young J. Allen and Dr. J. W. Lee. . . . — — Map (db m21403) HM
Constituted in 1788, Bark Camp Church was the center for worship, culture and hospitality in Bark Camp,
one of the oldest settlements in Burke County.
Many of the congregation honorably served during the War Between the States as soldiers . . . — — Map (db m97007) HM
At this spring
close by the entrenchments of
the British who held Savannah
Sargent
William Jasper
and Sargent
John Newton
in 1779, effected their heroic rescue of a
number of American Patriots who were
being taken to . . . — — Map (db m9274) HM
Expelled Because of Color” is dedicated to the memory of the 33 Black state legislators who were elected, yet expelled from the Georgia House because of their color in 1868.
The cinder block forms at the base of the sculpture symbolize the . . . — — Map (db m130191) HM
