Historical Markers and War Memorials in Sandersville, Georgia
Sandersville is the county seat for Washington County
Sandersville is in Washington County
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On West Church Road (Georgia Route 540) at Smith Robinson Road, on the right when traveling east on West Church Road.
Early on Nov. 25, 1864, the advance guard of the 20th Corps & of Gen. Sherman's army reached this vicinity and found that the nine bridges over, Buffalo Creek and tributaries had been burned by Wheeler's cavalry. A detachment of the 58th Indiana . . . — — Map (db m151273) HM
On Fall Line Freeway (Georgia Route 88) at Gordon School Road, on the right when traveling east on Fall Line Freeway.
For over 60 years this outstanding Negro was an entrepreneurial, educational, religious, and political leader in Washington County. On this site in 1897 he founded the Royal School for young Negro children. — — Map (db m24439) HM
On Deepstep Road, 0.2 miles east of Tucker Road, on the right when traveling west.
Traces its beginning to a Methodist Society held at home of pioneer William Hicklin around 1805, and the 1825 Hicklin Meeting House Roll with 32 members recorded by Rev. Tillman Snead, early Methodist Pastor. First deed found in 1831 settlement of . . . — — Map (db m38681) HM
On West Haynes Street, 0 miles east of Jones Street, on the left when traveling east.
Governor Thomas William Hardwick, lawyer and statesman, spent most of his life in this city. Born in Thomasville, Dec. 9, 1872, he graduated from Mercer in 1892 and from Lumpkin Law School, U. of Ga., in ‘93, in which year he was admitted to the . . . — — Map (db m24746) HM
On South Harris Street (Georgia Route 15) 0 miles south of Newman Street, on the left when traveling south.
On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (68 miles N), where he performed what proved to be his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Shortly thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed . . . — — Map (db m24785) HM
On West Haynes Street at Jones Street, on the right when traveling west on West Haynes Street.
A beautiful reproduction of the Greek Temple Athene, erected in 1855-56 for the Masons, of brick, hand-made by slaves, stood on this corner. An appeal by Mr. James D. Anthony and Dr. James R. Smith -- Methodist Ministers -- and Mr. Pincus Happ, . . . — — Map (db m24677) HM
In 1944, at Ft. Slocum, N.Y., Duckworth, an ordinary buck private
from Sandersville, Georgia, authored one of the most popular
marching cadences in military history. At first, it was known as the
"Duckworth Chant." It later gained fame as . . . — — Map (db m103232) HM
On Virginia Avenue at West Church Street (Georgia Route 24), on the right when traveling south on Virginia Avenue.
James Danelly Anthony entered the Methodist ministry at the 1847 Georgia Conference and after 50 years of service retired in 1897. He had 12 different charges and was 4 times Presiding elder for separate districts, one being the Sandersville . . . — — Map (db m24763) HM
On North Harris Street (Georgia Route 15) at West Haynes Street, on the right when traveling south on North Harris Street.
The present site of the building, which stands on the corner of South Harris Street and West Haynes Street, was the location of Mr. Mark Sander’s store at the crossing of roads. On December 19, 1793, the Legislature of Georgia authorized that a . . . — — Map (db m24756) HM
Near North Harris Street (Georgia Route 15) south of East McCarty Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Brown House was built about 1850 by Nathan Haynes. It was purchased by merchant and planter William Gainer Brown about 1851. During the 1850s portraits of William and Miriah Brown were painted by an itinerant artist for $75 plus room and board. . . . — — Map (db m103238) HM
On East McCarty Street (Georgia Route 24) 0.1 miles west of McDaniel Drive, on the left when traveling east.
On Nov. 24, 1864, the Left Wing of Gen. Sherman’s army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Oconee River at Milledgeville enroute to Sandersville. On the 26th, after delays caused by destruction . . . — — Map (db m24443) HM
Near West Haynes Street west of Virginia Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
To the memory
of the
Confederate
soldiers,
who illustrated
Washington Co.
on many battlefields.
A hero's crown is
thine forever.
There are deeds which
should not pass away
and names that cannot
be forgotten.
1861 – . . . — — Map (db m197787) WM
On North Harris Street (Georgia Route 15) at Malone Street, on the right when traveling south on North Harris Street.
Washington, Georgia’s ninth county and first in the nation to be named for George Washington, was created in 1784 for granting land to soldiers for Revolutionary War services.
Court House Square, located on the old stage coach road from . . . — — Map (db m24690) HM
On West Haynes Street at Stacer Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Haynes Street.
On Thursday, November 24, 1864, the 14th and 20th Corps of Union Major General William T. Sherman's army began entering Washington County. By November
26th the 28,000 soldiers of the two corps arrived in Sandersville, marching on separate roads . . . — — Map (db m103235) HM
Dedicated
to the
Men and Women
of
Washington County
who served our
country with honor
during
the Korean War
June 27, 1950
January 31, 1955
{Honor Roll on Left and right panels of those who . . . — — Map (db m103379) WM
On Stacer Avenue at West Haynes Street, on the left when traveling north on Stacer Avenue.
In Sacred Memory of the
men of Washington County
who made the supreme
sacrifice in World War I
Carroll William Deal
Claude Louis Deal
Julius Hartley
Abbie Lee Johnson
Lewis Cheatham Newsom
Wilbur Stuart Sewell Sr.
William . . . — — Map (db m103385) WM
