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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Augusta, Georgia
Augusta is the county seat for Richmond County
Augusta is in Richmond County
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This building, named for Dr. George N. Stoney, a prominent local black physician, opened in 1909 to house students of Lamar School of Nursing. The
school, founded in 1897 by Lucy Craft Laney and Dr. William H. Doughty, was one of the first nursing . . . — — Map (db m15337) HM
In this cemetery are buried the following eminent Georgians:
JOHN MILLEDGE (1757-1818), Revolutionary officer, Congressman, Governor (1802-1806). He gave the land on which the University of Georgia is built.
GEORGE WALKER CRAWFORD . . . — — Map (db m14871) HM
Emerging from Central African Baptist Church's divided congregation, Beulah Baptist Church was founded in the Union Baptist Church fellowship hall in August 1885 by Rev. C.T. Walker. Renamed Tabernacle Baptist Church two days later in August 1885, . . . — — Map (db m200152) HM
The M48 Tank was designed in 1954. The tank
weight is 45 tons. It has an aircooled 810 hp
engine and carries a crew of four. Armament
consists of two machine guns in addition to
the 90mm gun which has a maximum effective
range of 2.7 miles. . . . — — Map (db m35028) HM
Thankful Baptist Church was founded on April 26, 1840 under the name “Independent” in an area of Augusta
known as “Pinched Gut”. It was the first daughter church established out of Springfield Baptist Church who emerged . . . — — Map (db m48993) 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
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
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. {Picture
included} Brown rejected Elzey's . . . — — Map (db m36086) 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 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
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
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
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
[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
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
After rendering valuable aid to his State as a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1860-1865). Charles Jones Jenkins was elected Governor in 1865. For defying certain reconstruction measures of Congress and military orders, he was replaced by . . . — — Map (db m35251) HM
Serious flooding of the Savannah River in 1852 prompted the first consideration of the construction of a levee, a man-made earth embankment, but Augusta experienced the calamity of several other destructive floods before construction of the levee . . . — — Map (db m114302) HM
Approximately at this place, May 28-31, 1781, a Mayham tower was erected by the American forces commanded by General Andrew Pickens and Lt. Colonel "Light Horse Harry" Lee, who was besieging Fort Cornwallis, located on the present site of Saint . . . — — Map (db m9808) HM
The Medical College of Georgia, oldest school of medicine in Georgia, was incorporated in 1828 as the Medical Academy of Georgia. Of the 23 original board of Trustees, 5 were from the City of Augusta and three of these were elected as the initial . . . — — Map (db m34253) HM
The Old Government House, built in 1801, is one of
the oldest remaining public buildings in Augusta.
The original building consisting of the central block
of the structure only, housed the seats of local
government. It was sold to Mayor Samuel . . . — — Map (db m200158) HM
On May 11, 1970, Augusta became the site of Georgia's largest uprising during the Civil Rights era. Hundreds of black citizens gathered at the Municipal Building to demand an investigation into the beating death of Charles Oatman, a 16-year-old . . . — — Map (db m200154) HM
On September 23, 1914, The Rotary Club of Augusta met for the first time in the former Albion Hotel, located here. Organized by attorney James M. Hull and local businessmen, the club promotes fellowship and service. Rotary began in Chicago in 1905 . . . — — Map (db m191174) HM
Dedicated July 4, 1848, in honor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Georgia: George Walton, Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett. The first two lie buried in crypts beneath this shaft. The burial place of Gwinnett, whose body was to . . . — — Map (db m9946) HM
Members of the seventeenth-century French Order of Saint Joseph of Carondelet were first invited to Georgia at the end of the Civil War to teach and staff an orphanage in Savannah. Working with the children of African Americans, the Sisters of St. . . . — — Map (db m36714) HM
"You Triumphed Over Obstacles
Which Would Have Overcome Men
Less Brave And Determined"
President McKinley
Dedicated to
The Veterans Of 1898 to 1902
by Department of Georgia National Auxiliary . . . — — Map (db m10187) HM
This memorial is dedicated to the memory of
these 7 brave soldiers who rest elsewhere in
Magnolia. They fought against oppression,
tyranny, absolute power and usurpation off
states' rights, all of which still plague our
country. — — Map (db m210591) WM
1795
Richmond Hussars
Troop K
Georgia Cavalry
Glorified
in
Every War
1917 ( Rear )
[ Emblem: Last Man's Club ]
Honor Roll
of the Last Man's Club organized
24 December 1929 and dedicated to
Men Of . . . — — Map (db m32998) HM
For many years during the 19th and 20th centuries, turbines like this one helped manufacturers turn waterpower into the power that helped drive machines.
Back in 1918, Howle & Turner of Heflin, Alabama, purchased this Improved Double Turbine . . . — — Map (db m210541) HM
In the cemetery about 300 yards from here are buried Major-General John Twiggs, a hero of the American Revolution, for whom Twiggs County is named, and his son, Major-General David Emanuel Twiggs, who achieved military distinction in the Mexican . . . — — Map (db m61699) HM
St. John Methodist Church was founded in 1798 by Stith Mead, a young Virginia minister who denounced the worldliness of fun-loving Augusta. Biship Francis Asbury visited the church and watched its growth with particular interest. Augustus B. . . . — — Map (db m10200) HM
Robert Forsyth was the first law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. Captain of Light Dragoons in Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee's cavalry during the Revolutionary War, Forsyth had been appointed the first marshal for the District of . . . — — Map (db m10164) 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
While not incorporated as a separate community until 1861 (with boundaries being a circle with a one mile radius from Gould's Corner), Summerville was occupied before the turn of the 19th Century. Early residents included George Walton (signer of . . . — — Map (db m49963) HM
Freeman Walker, in 1826, deeded 70 acres of land to the U. S. Govt. to be used as an arsenal – the site now of Augusta College. He reserved one acre as a family burial ground. The marker in front of his home “Bellvue”, on . . . — — Map (db m63573) HM
Near this site stood Ware High School, which was the first public high school for African-Americans in Georgia and one of only five in the south while it was in operation. Founded in 1880, it was named for Edmund Asa Ware, Freedman`s Bureau Officer . . . — — Map (db m37094) HM
During his Southern tour of 1791, President George Washington visited Augusta--at that time Georgia's capital--from May 18-21. Washington met with Governor Edward Telfair and other "principal gentlemen of the place," including George Walton and . . . — — Map (db m9708) HM
The 500-acres parcel of land long known as the “White House Tract” witnessed many of Augusta’s most significant historical events. On this tract an Indian trading company known as MacKay’s Trading Post, or the White House, flourished. Around this . . . — — Map (db m23265) HM
William Bartram Visits Augusta
1773 for Indian Ceded Lands Treaty.
1775 said . . . ."Augusta would become
the Metropolis of Georgia" — — Map (db m9762) HM
"The village of Augusta." wrote the celebrated American naturalist and botanist of his visits in 1765 and 1773, "is situated on a rich and fertile plain of the Savanna River; the buildings are near its banks and extend two miles. The site of Augusta . . . — — Map (db m9761) HM
In the "Masonic Hall" on this site, the British author lectured (Feb. 11-12, 1856), as guest of The Young Men's Library Assn. He wrote home: "Nice quaint old town Augusta, rambling great street 2 miles long, doctors and shopkeepers the society of . . . — — Map (db m9987) HM
Masonic Emblem
In this family cemetery rest the remains of William Schley, Governor and Grand Master of Georgia. Brother Schley was born in Frederick, Maryland December 10, 1786 and acquired his education in the academies at Louisville and . . . — — Map (db m27065) HM
( West Face )
( Emblem )
In the Sacred Memory Of The
Men Of Richmond County Who
Made The Supreme Sacrifice
World War I
{ List of Names }
World War II
{ List of Names }
Time Shall Not Dim The
Glory Of Their Deeds . . . — — Map (db m10272) HM
[Front]:
To honor the men of Richmond County,
of every creed and color,
who served at their country's call
that aggression and lawless force
should not dominate the world.
[Reverse]:
What stands if freedom fall?
. . . — — Map (db m10211) WM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, during slavery. She
graduated in Atlanta University's first class in 1873. Ten years later, she
founded Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in the lecture room of
Christ Presbyterian Church of . . . — — Map (db m227180) HM
Born in Cedartown, Ga., he pastored several Georgia churches, most notably
Tabernacle Baptist, Augusta's largest black church, where he served for
40 years (1956-1996).
He earned the bachelor of divinity, bachelor of arts, and master of . . . — — Map (db m227145) HM
Born in Ruckerville, Ga., he moved to Augusta
in 1842. He organized Springfield Baptist
Church's first Sunday School, served as president of
the Colored Baptist Sunday School Convention, founded
Harmony Baptist Church in 1868, and served as . . . — — Map (db m227178) HM
Believed to be the first female Baptist pastor in the South, Essie Mae McIntyre was born in Louisville, Ga. She helped to found and served as pastor of Good Shepherd Baptist Church from 1940-1996. During this period the church increased its . . . — — Map (db m227103) HM
He was born on the Galphin Plantation near Beech Island,
S.C. Freed by his slave-master father, he became an ordained
minister and co founded Silver Bluff Baptist Church in 1773.
He dropped the Galphin name when he moved to Augusta in
1783.
. . . — — Map (db m227113) HM
A graduate of Morehouse College and the Morehouse School of Divinity, he
began his historic pastorate of Thankful Baptist Church in 1945 and served for
46 years.
The third African American elected to the Richmond County Board of Education
he . . . — — Map (db m227137) HM
Reverend Wallace graduated from Howard University. A former pastor
of Trinity CME Church. He envisioned a library where black children,
denied access to local public libraries, could study, read for pleasure
and conduct research. Rev. Wallace led . . . — — Map (db m227157) HM
Born in Waynesboro, Ga., he moved to Augusta at an early age.
Once a shoe shine boy and caddie, he became a boxer extraordinaire,
twice winning the New York Boxing Commission's World Light
Weight Championship and earning Ring Magazine's . . . — — Map (db m227118) HM
A member of the Board of Directors of the National Conference of Black Mayors and the Black Mayors Association of Georgia, he was the first African American to serve on and chair the Richmond County Board of Commissioners, and the first African . . . — — Map (db m227092) HM
A native of Waynesboro, Ga., he graduated from Morehouse College and
Howard University School of Law. A pioneering attorney and judge, he
filed and won the lawsuits that desegregated the Richmond County School
System, the Augusta Police . . . — — Map (db m227136) HM
Originally a dancer with the Katherine Dunham troupe, she made
her professional stage debut in George Abbot's Brown Sugar. But
she is best known for her role as Prissy in Gone with the Wind,
1939. Later, a stint on the radio show . . . — — Map (db m227115) 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
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