Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church about 4 miles Southwest of here, was constituted November 29, 1834. The charter members included: William T.
Rushing, his wife, Belinda; Asa Geiger, his wife, Nancy; William Jones, his wife, Elizabeth; James . . . — — Map (db m14747) HM
This county created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 11, 1858, is named for Preston Smith Brooks, zealous defender of States Rights. Born in S.C. Aug. 6, 1819, Brooks served in the Mexican War & in Congress. He died June 27, 1857. The first County . . . — — Map (db m26977) HM
In August 1864, during the American Civil War, four men were executed in Brooks County, Georgia, for conspiring to plot a slave insurrection. The conspirators – led by a local white man, John Vickery, and three slaves named Nelson, George, and . . . — — Map (db m40368) HM
The Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this area, crossed here, leading southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today's Lax,
Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida Line. The thoroughfare was opened by . . . — — Map (db m14763) HM
To Those Who Gave Much. To Those Who Gave All
Quitman and Brooks County Dedicates This Memorial
November 11, 1921
Erected by Quitman Chapter
United Daughters of The Confederacy
1st Lt. Wilbur Oglesby
Privates
Arthur Culpepper · . . . — — Map (db m102345) WM
In this cemetery, during the last year of the War Between the States, a number of Confederate soldiers, 17 of them unknown, were buried. Memorial services for these soldiers were held as early as 1869. In 1871, on Memorial Day, April 26, a group of . . . — — Map (db m26978) HM
