[East Face]:
First troops assigned to (Camp) Fort Gordon, Georgia
upon activation in 1941
Troops arrived at Camp Gordon December 1941 and
underwent rigid combat training here until April 1943.
{Ivy Leaf Cross Emblem} . . . — — Map (db m10057) HM
Amanda America Dickson Toomer was born in Hancock County in 1849 to wealthy planter David Dickson and Julia, who was enslaved by Dickson's mother Elizabeth. Although conceived through the rape of her adolescent mother, Amanda was raised and educated . . . — — Map (db m200156) HM
[North Face]:
{USN Emblem}
World War I
In loving memory
of our sons who gave
their lives
[East Face]:
{US Army Emblem}
World War II
Dedicated to the glory of God
and to the men of all
wars.
Erected By . . . — — Map (db m10063) WM
In Honor Of
Archibald Willingham Butt
Born in Augusta Sept. 26, 1865.
Graduated in the University
of the South, 1880
Major in the United States Army.
Trusted Aide-de-Camp
of two presidents.
Major Butt went to his death . . . — — Map (db m34993) HM
( West Face )
( Minute Man National Guard Logo )
This Monument
Placed In
Honor
Of All
National
Guardsmen
1984
( North Face )
Especially Dedicated
To The
Officers And Men
HQ & HQ Battery
A Battery . . . — — Map (db m10085) HM
An accomplished lawyer, Nabrit actively participated in seminal civil
rights cases in the 1940s and 1950s. Along with such notables as
Thurgood Marshall he often handled cases for the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. He was Marshall's . . . — — Map (db m227193) 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
For a period of 128 years until its abandonment in 1955, a United States Arsenal was located on a tract comprising approxiamately 70 acres lying South and West of this spot. An "arsenal at Augusta" to aid the state in "resisting invasion" was . . . — — Map (db m34706) HM
In January 1861,
U.S. Troops
surrendered the
Arsenal to the State of
Georgia, soon to be part
of the Confederacy. That
year Confederates
constructed a large shop building
near the eastern wall to house
several functions: Part was . . . — — Map (db m56314) HM
On January 24, 1861 five days after
Georgia's secession from the Union,
Governor Joseph E. Brown accepted
the surrender of the United States Arsenal at
Augusta from Captain Arnold Elzey. Brown rejected Elzey's request
that his troops be . . . — — Map (db m36086) HM
The towers,
part of the 1941
construction for
World War II, was
home to the optical shop
and was used for testing
instruments that ensured the
accuracy of artillery fire.
Observing objects at known
distances on the horizon, . . . — — Map (db m56334) HM
The Augusta Canal, begun in 1845 and completed in 1847, provided power for one of the first cotton textile manufacturing plants in the South and was the beginning of the development of Augusta as a great textile manufacturing center.
The . . . — — Map (db m33907) HM
Until the Enterprise Mill was built Augustans were not sure that the 1875 enlargement of the canal had worked to attract industry.
The 1848 granite block building at the canal end of this complex is a former flour mill and the only . . . — — Map (db m36308) HM
The tall chimney in front of the Sibley Mill
is the only surviving structure built by the
Confederacy, and stands as a memorial to war dead.
Augusta and its canal played a prominent role in
the War between the States as the site of . . . — — Map (db m210476) HM
The second half of the nineteenth century saw increased Chinese immigration to
the United States to meet the needs of large-scale labor projects. In 1873, Chinese
laborers were contracted to expand the Augusta Canal. The Chinese Exclusion . . . — — Map (db m235779) HM
Immortalis est veritas.
Truth is immortal
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
It is sweet and glorious to die for the fatherland.
These men died in defense of
the principles of . . . — — Map (db m210642) WM
East face
In 1973, Augusta College named three of the
original arsenal buildings in honor of
commandants of the arsenal. Payne Hall,
storehouse and later headquarters for the
arsenal and administrative building for the
university, . . . — — Map (db m47400) HM
[North Face]:
In Memoriam
"No Nation Rose So White
And Fair:
None Fell So Pure Of Crime"
[West Face]:
Erected
A.D. 1878
by
The Ladies
Memorial Association
of Augusta.
In Honor of the men of
Richmond County . . . — — Map (db m9673) WM
Organized 1872
Constructed 1886
Architect - Enoch William Brown
Contractor - William Henry Goodrich
Closed 1964
Entered in National Register of Historic Places
1978 — — Map (db m114290) HM
Augusta State University traces its roots to 1783 when its parent institution, the Academy of Richmond County, was chartered. Offering college-level classes to prepare students for admission into universities as sophomores or juniors, the Academy . . . — — Map (db m15036) HM
Prior to 1800, a market house stood on this site, called the
"Lower Market." Another market was built in 1826 called
the "Upper Market" seven blocks to the west. As the city
grew, a new market was built in 1826-27 but was destroyed
by fire in . . . — — Map (db m281982) HM
In 1869, he became the first Black licensed to teach by the State of
Georgia and paid by the State School Fund. Born in Augusta and educated
in the public schools, he earned the A.B. and A.M. degrees from the
Augusta Institute, now Morehouse . . . — — Map (db m227107) HM
Sringfield Baptist Church and many Baptist churches in the surrounding community conducted baptism services in the nearby Savannah River. Richard Hunt's bronze sculpture and fountain installation, And They Went Down Both Into the Water, is . . . — — Map (db m271085) HM
The Bell, donated to the College by the
Georgia Railroad Bank, came from the
last steam locomotive of the Georgia
Railroad. In 1957, the bank also funded
the building of the tower to house the bell,
which at one time rang to mark the . . . — — Map (db m47808) HM
[Bell System Logo]
The first telephone
exchange in the State of Georgia
was established at
Augusta, Georgia
August 1, 1879
With seventy eight subscribers,
this was only three years after
Alexander Graham Bell
invented . . . — — Map (db m10038) HM
Home of Freeman Walker, outstanding citizen of early Georgia. Born in Virginia in 1780, he came to Richmond County in his youth and studied law. Freeman Walker, in 1826, deeded 70 acres of land to the United States Government to be used as an . . . — — Map (db m36488) HM
(East face)
Bicentennial
Augusta, Ga
1735 — 1935
(West face)
Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe,
Founder - 1735
Gen. "Light-Horse" Harry Lee
Revolutionary soldier, Commander - 1781
Gen. Robert Edward . . . — — Map (db m32703) HM
A short distance north of this place, General Joseph Wheeler was born on Sept. 10, 1836. He graduated from West Point in 1859 and held the rank of 2nd
lieutenant when the Civil War broke out. Resigning his commission in the Mounted Rifles, U.S.A., . . . — — Map (db m14829) HM
On this site August 30, 1785, Greenburg Hughes published Augusta's first newspaper, the Augusta Gazette, which continued, after he went to Charleston, until September 30, 1786, when John Erdman Smith, State Printer, began publishing the Georgia . . . — — Map (db m10092) HM
On the golf links of the Forrest Hills-Ricker Hotel, Bobby Jones won the Southeastern Open of 1930. He went on to victory that year in the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur –- golf’s Grand Slam and a feat yet to be . . . — — Map (db m21288) HM
Mr. Lewis Penrose Bohler, Sr. was a railroad and postal employee as well as treasurer and church clerk for Tabernacle Baptist Church. He was Deputy Grand Master for the Prince Hall Masons of Georgia. He and his wife Margie had 7 children, all . . . — — Map (db m273664) HM
Woodrow Wilson, later to become 27th President of the United States, lived in this Manse of the First Presbyterian Church of which his father, Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, was pastor from 1858 to 1870. Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., in 1856 and he later . . . — — Map (db m9856) HM
Born in Farmville, Va., he earned the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor
of Sacred Theology degrees from Lincoln University in 1903 and received
its honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1925. He did further study at both
Columbia University and Atlanta . . . — — Map (db m227187) HM
The first woman elected to the Augusta City Council (1970), the first
Black woman elected to a city council in the Southeast, the first woman
to serve as secretary of the Georgia Democratic Party (1971, 1980), and
a Presidential elector (1976, . . . — — Map (db m227112) HM
The current sanctuary was constructed from 1857-63 and is one of the oldest Catholic Church buildings in Georgia. It was designed by J.R. Niernsee, architect of the State House in Columbia, South Carolina. The original 1814 structure served as the . . . — — Map (db m9993) HM
With the end of the Civil War in 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Augusta to assist in establishing peace. As slavery's legal and economic defenses collapsed, the Springfield church emerged as a religious, social and political forum for black . . . — — Map (db m271084) HM
[Marker Front]:
One of Georgia's two signers of the United States Constitution.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland June 18, 1748.
Lieutenant Colonel, Georgia Militia during the American Revolution, 1776-1770.
Representative, Georgia . . . — — Map (db m10108) HM
"The settlement of Augusta is of great service
...the Key of all the Indian Countrey"
— James Edward Oglethorpe, 1739
James Edward Oglethorpe captured the lucrative Indian
trade for the colony of Georgia, when he founded Augusta . . . — — Map (db m64103) HM
(West side)
This
Obelisk-Chimney,
Sole remnant of the extensive
powder-works here erected
under the auspices of the
Confederate Government.
Is, by the Confederate
Survivors Association
of Augusta, with . . . — — Map (db m32871) HM
Obelisk chimney one-third mile (from here) marks center of Confederate Powder Works which extended two miles along the river and was the principal powder factory in the South during the War. It supplied Confederate armies with abundant gunpowder of . . . — — Map (db m33454) HM
When the conflict began in April 1861,
leaders on both sides were unprepared
to wage a long war. The Confederacy's
industrial capacity was especially lacking,
and munitions of all types were scarce.
Initial stores of gunpowder . . . — — Map (db m32882) HM
In 1846, Augusta-area Jews founded the city's first congregation, B'nai Israel, later Congregation Children of Israel (CCI), building its first synagogue here in 1869. Membership reflected Jewish migration to the United States, including Central and . . . — — Map (db m291965) HM
Although cotton was cultivated in small quantities in the South during the eighteenth century, it was not considered a profitable crop because of the difficulty of separating the seed from the fiber.
In 1793, Eli Whitney, a young man from . . . — — Map (db m114289) HM
In 1808, Nicholas de L' Aigle, a French
refugee, established brick yards 1/4 mile
south which furnished Augusta with building
brick for 75 years. River clay was "pugged"
to the right constency in a cylindrical vat
by a stone turned with . . . — — Map (db m38190) HM
In 1808, Nicholas de L Aigle, a French refugee established brick yards 1/4 mile south which furnished Augusta with building bricks for 75 years. River clay was "pugged" to the right consistency in a cylindrical vat by a stone turned with mule-power, . . . — — Map (db m273550) 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 Spain, to . . . — — Map (db m27278) HM
By deed of self-sacrifice,
such as all humanity claims
and counts amoung its jewels,
hallowed this spot and rendered
his name worthy of such
Lasting Memory
as these rugged stones and
this simple tablet can secure.
For . . . — — Map (db m34003) HM
Born in Augusta, he earned the A.B. from Paine College, the B.D. from Drew
Theological Seminary and did further study at the University of Pennsylvania.
He received numerous honorary degrees and was the first Black awarded an
honorary doctorate . . . — — Map (db m227110) HM
Born near Hephzibah in 1858, he came to Augusta in 1874 and graduated
from the Augusta Institute, (now Morehouse College). He organized
Tabernacle Baptist Church in 1885 and built the present edifice in 1914,
the largest black church in the . . . — — Map (db m227148) HM
A graduate of the Howard University School of
Medicine, he opened his office in Augusta in 1889
and started, along with Lucy C. Laney. a nursing
training program which later became the Lamar
School of Nursing of the Lamar Hospital. When
the new . . . — — Map (db m227189) HM
After completing the basic science courses at Paine College,
he was taught dentistry by two local dentists. He passed the
Georgia Board Examination and then served two years as an apprentice.
He practiced dentistry from the back of a horse . . . — — Map (db m227138) HM
The son of Augusta's first black dentist, he graduated from Howard University
dental school in 1930 and began his 51-year practice with his father. He was
president of the Stoney Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Society; president of
the . . . — — Map (db m227142) HM
An Augusta native, he earned the bachelor's degree from Brown
University in 1894. President of the National Association of
Teachers in Colored Schools, and Morehouse College for 25 years,
he was the first African American to head that . . . — — Map (db m227161) HM
Revered as a teacher and a coach,
"Professor Tutt" began his career
under the leadership of Miss Lucy
C. Laney at Haines Institute, where
he remained from 1906 to 1949,
longer than anyone else. From Lincoln
University (Pennsylvania), he . . . — — Map (db m36138) HM
A native Augustan, son of former slaves, he worked to support himself and his studies, graduating from Haines Institute and attending Atlanta University prior to earning the M.D. from Howard University Medical School in 1912.
Hired by Pilgrim . . . — — Map (db m200151) HM
Dyess Park was named for Lt. Col. A. James Dyess U.S.M.C.R. of Augusta, Georgia, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinguished gallantry beyond the call of duty and intrepidity in the leadership of his command, . . . — — Map (db m291968) HM
Education emerged as one of the most highly valued benefits of freedom for African Americans. While Springfield members conducted clandestine schools for black students before the Civil War, one of the first openly acknowledged schools for . . . — — Map (db m273390) HM
Born in Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia on March 21, 1794. Grew up in Kentucky under guardianship of Henry Clay. Visited Augusta in 1818, where she met and married Richard Tubman, wealthy merchant. After his death in 1836, she became interested in . . . — — Map (db m9995) HM
Dedicated March 21, 1994
Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the birth
of
Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman
Sponsored by The State of Georgia
State of Georgia
The Honorable Zell Miller, Governor
City Council of Augusta
The . . . — — Map (db m9996) HM
Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, native Augustan and a founder of the Medical College of Georgia, was a brilliant surgeon recognized internationally and a prolific writer. His war activities included aid to French, Italian and Confederate forces and service as . . . — — Map (db m114274) HM
In August, 1864, a violent explosion destroyed the granulating building of the Augusta Powder Works, one of the 28 buildings of the Confederacy’s massive gunpowder mill along Augusta Canal. Eight men and a boy died when 18,000 pounds of gunpowder . . . — — Map (db m53946) HM
This cemetery was the family burying ground on Good Hope Plantation granted in part by King George III to John Twiggs Brigadier General in the Revolutionary Army afterward Major General of Militia — — Map (db m61872) HM
One block east on Bay Street was opened as a
boys' classicial school on April 12, 1785. Here
President George Washington attended
examinations in 1791. The buildings housed the
General Assembly of Georgia when Augusta
was the capital, the . . . — — Map (db m34128) HM
In March 1817, eight men and two women meeting in an Augusta home formed "The Baptist Praying Society of Augusta" - the forerunner of the First Baptist Church. Two months later the society was constituted a church under the leadership of the first . . . — — Map (db m10135) HM
On this site May 8, 1845
The Southern Baptist Convention
was organized
by 327 delegates from the states of
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisana, Kentucky and District of Columbia.
———
The . . . — — Map (db m210478) HM
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) began in Kentucky in the early years of the nineteenth century. Dr. Daniel Hook and Captain and Mrs. Edward Campfield established Augusta’s First Christian Church in 1835, despite great suspicion and . . . — — Map (db m14884) HM
[Lower Marker]:
The origin of this church is 1750 when St. Paul's Church was established under the jurisdiction of the Church of England. In 1804 Christ Church was incorporated at St. Pauls's as a Presbyterian congregation. . . . — — Map (db m9784) HM
Organized by the Rev. Washington McKnight, rector of Richmond Academy, in 1804. Met at first at site of St. Paul`s Church, incorporated by the Georgia General Assembly and given a lot on the common by Richmond Academy Trustees. Cornerstone of the . . . — — Map (db m9838) HM
These flower beds
are memorials from the
Christian Endeavor Society
of this church
to the soldiers affiliated with us
while at Camp Hancock,
who gave their lives
in the defense of liberty in
The Great World War. 1914 - . . . — — Map (db m274156) WM
To commemorate the great congress of
five Indian Nations held here at Fort
Augusta in 1763. When seven hundred
Indians came to meet the Governors of
Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina. — — Map (db m9899) HM
The Savannah River and its tributaries drain more than 10,000 square miles of an area that receives some of the heaviest rainfall on the continent.
Augusta's location on a low bluff at the Fall Line of the river has made the city . . . — — Map (db m114298) HM
This stone marks the site
of the
Colonial Fort Augusta,
built by order of General Oglethorpe
and the trustees
in 1736;
and known,
during the Revolution as
Fort Cornwallis.
St. Paul Church was built
in 1750,
under the curtain of . . . — — Map (db m9803) HM
This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort Augusta (so named . . . — — Map (db m9723) HM
Approximate location of Ft. Grierson, named after British Lt. Col. James Grierson, who commanded a temporary stronghold at this place during occupation of Augusta by the British under Col. Brown from May, 1780, to June, 1781. After a rendezvous . . . — — Map (db m9746) HM
Following the establishment of Georgia's first settlement at Savannah in 1733, General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the colony, learned of a thriving trading village on the Carolina bank of the Savannah River located near the head of . . . — — Map (db m10321) HM
Born in Augusta, Yerby – short story writer, poet, and novelist –
earned the B.A. from Paine College and the M.A. from Fisk
University. His books, sold in 82 countries, have been translated
into more than 30 languages. His 33 novels are said to . . . — — Map (db m227119) HM
Born in Augusta on September 5, 1916, author Frank Garvin Yerby graduated from
the Haines Institute and Paine College, and also attended Fisk University and the
University of Chicago. He published poetry, short stories, and 33 novels, 12 of . . . — — Map (db m227201) HM
We pause in terror before the human deed.
The cloud of annihilation,
the concentrations for death,
the cruelly casual way of each to each.
But in the stillness of this hour
we find our way
from darkness into light. . . . — — Map (db m291962) WM
One of two native Georgians who served as generals in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, Montgomery C. Meigs was born here on May 3, 1816, grandson of a University of Georgia president. After graduating from West Point, he oversaw construction of . . . — — Map (db m61640) HM
(South face)
General
James Edward
Oglethorpe
1696 - 1785
Father of Georgia
Founder of Augusta
(East face)
Founder of Georgia
Member of Parliament
English Prison Reformer
Military General . . . — — Map (db m63749) HM
[Masonic Emblem]
To
George Walton
(1749 - 1804)
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Patriot - Soldier - Statesman - Jurist - Freemason
Born a Virginian he became a Georgian in about 1770.
An early leader in the Liberty . . . — — Map (db m33287) HM
2200 feet to the southwest at a place indicated by a marker of the Georgia Historical Commission, Georgia Railroad and Banking Company on May 21, 1837 operated the first railroad in Georgia. It is the oldest railroad in Georgia continuously . . . — — Map (db m61570) HM
On May 21, 1837, Georgia Railroad and Banking Company operated from this place the first railroad train in Georgia. It is the oldest railroad in Georgia continuously operating under its original charter.
Though extensive portions of its lines were . . . — — Map (db m33110) HM
The property on which the Widows Home is located was the site of Augusta’s first City Hospital. Constructed in 1818, the hospital provided for the “sick poor” of Augusta and later evolved into the present University Hospital. At City . . . — — Map (db m21519) HM
Augusta served as the capital of Georgia
from 1785 until 1795 when the seat of
government was moved to the new capital,
Louisville. The Georgia General Assembly
met at this site in a two-story building on
the corner of Elbert (Fourth) and . . . — — Map (db m9747) HM
The Great Fire of 1916 broke out on March 22nd at 6:20 p.m. in Kelly's Dry Goods Store, located in the Dyer Building at the northwest corner of Broad Street and Jackson (Eighth) Street. Whipped along by high winds, the flames rapidly spread to . . . — — Map (db m114283) HM
The colonial Great Indian Trading Path crossed land now a part of Augusta College and followed a part of the present McDowell Street. It was variously called Trading Road, Augusta Road, and the Creek Indian Path. Early platts show it on land owned . . . — — Map (db m10008) HM
The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the governors of NY, PA, & VA and the . . . — — Map (db m9906) HM
Established by influential educator Lucy Craft Laney, the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute was chartered in 1886 and grew to include a Kindergarten to Junior College curriculum, the Lamar School of Nursing, and a teacher training program. . . . — — Map (db m34807) HM
On this site stood The Lower Market. Fire destroyed an early structure in 1829. The rebuilt market, with its bell that could be heard throughout the city, was a center of agricultural and livestock trade. A freakish cyclone blasted the structure in . . . — — Map (db m211686) HM
The Augusta Chronicle is the South's oldest surviving newspaper, in continuous publication. The Chronicle was founded on September 30, 1786. It dates its origins back to August 30, 1785 and the founding of The Augusta Gazette which later became part . . . — — Map (db m10102) HM
1818
The Georgia Legislature adopts measures that restrict African American property ownership and that require free persons of color to
register annually and pay a tax when moving into the state. The registry includes many residents of . . . — — Map (db m271413) HM
"I take my pen in hand to give you a sketch of the proceedings of the 1st day of January (The Freedmen's 4th of July) in the City of Augusta, we met a Springfield Church, it being the largest colored church in the city." -Robert Kent, . . . — — Map (db m271414) HM
1867
Reverend William Jefferson White and Richard Coulter establish Augusta Baptist Institute, later Atlanta's Morehouse College, at Springfield Baptist Church.
Two years later, the school relocates to Harmony Baptist near the intersection of . . . — — Map (db m271421) HM
1876
Across the Savannah River, deadly massacres in Hamburg and Ellenton mark a violent end to Reconstruction in South Carolina.
1879
Union Baptist Church is founded by former Springfield members. After violent threats,
Augusta Baptist . . . — — Map (db m271423) HM
-1883
Lucy Craft Laney establishes Haines Institute at Christ Presbyterian Church on Telfair
and 11th Streets. The school receives a charter in 1886.
-1884
Richard R. Wright and famed evangelist Reverend Charles T. Walker (1858-1921) . . . — — Map (db m272755) HM
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