Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Dr. Chapmon Powell, pioneer Dekalb County physician, built this log cabin on the shallow ford Indian Trail near the town of Decatur in 1826. He often gave medical aid to Cherokee Indians still roaming the country between the shallow ford on the . . . — — Map (db m208568) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
This late Federal Style home has seven rooms on two levels and comfortably housed the Allens, a family of four. It was originally located near the town of Kingston, a railroad boom town in the northwest part of the state. The upper level and the . . . — — Map (db m208334) HM
"Covered bridges" or "lattice bridges" were
common throughout the Eastern U.S, during the
nineteenth century. This bridge formerly
spanned the North Fork of the Oconee River in
the city of Athens, Ga.. connecting College
Avenue and Hobson . . . — — Map (db m11054) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Around 1850, Charles Milton Davis moved with his extended family from Aiken, South Carolina to create the new town of Dickey in the southwest part of Georgia near the present city of Albany.
Family lore states that the lavish manor home was . . . — — Map (db m208654) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Around 1826, when John Quincy Adams was president, Dr. Chapmon Powell built this one room log cabin near today's intersection of Clairmont Avenue and North Decatur Road. A prominent physician, he was one of the earliest residents to settle in the . . . — — Map (db m208525) HM
On James B Rivers Memorial Drive at Silver Hill Road on James B Rivers Memorial Drive.
July 18, 1864. Garrard’s cav. div. & Lightburn’s 15th A.C. (US) brigade moved from Browning’s Court House (Tucker), to this vicinity & destroyed 2 miles of Ga. R.R. track, several culverts, & the water tank.
July 19. Long’s & Miller’s brigades, . . . — — Map (db m9933) HM
On Stone Mountain Freeway (U.S. 78) 0.2 miles west of West Park Place Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Hightower (Etowah) Trail, one of the best marked Indian Trails in Georgia, was a much used crossover between two of the noted Trading Paths radiating from Augusta. Recognized as a former boundary between Cherokee and Creek lands, a part of it . . . — — Map (db m33433) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
From 1875 until 1915 children in the Klondike Community in southern DeKalb County attended Powell Academy on S. Goddard Rd. The one room school was capable of housing 25-30 students. It got its name from George Washington Powell, pioneer resident . . . — — Map (db m208680) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
The Powell Academy was built around 1875, when Ulysses S. Grant was president. It was one of about 100 small community schools located in DeKalb County and served students in the Klondike Community until they reached Grade 6. The money for these . . . — — Map (db m208677) HM
On Memorial Hall Circle, on the right when traveling east.
On June 3, 1996, as part of the Centennial Olympic Games Celebration, a massive bronze sculpture of five thoroughbred horses running through the collapsed Berlin Wall was unveiled on this spot. The piece was 18 feet wide by 12 feet high and weighted . . . — — Map (db m207802) HM
Near Robert E Lee Boulevard at Memorial Hall Circle, on the right when traveling east.
Tablet #1
There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done - the honor of the integrity of principle.
Robert E. Lee
Tablet #2
So, my son, when in the conflict of life - the cloud and the darkness come, stand . . . — — Map (db m87443) WM
On Cemetery Circle north of East Ponce de Leon Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
On July 18 & 19, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign, Union Brigadier General Kenner Garrard's cavalry division raided Stone Mountain. They skirmished with the Confederate cavalry brigade of Colonel George G. Dibrell, destroyed two miles of railroad . . . — — Map (db m113346) HM
Near Robert E Lee Boulevard at Memorial Hall Circle, on the right when traveling east.
Tablet #1
The richer, the wiser, the more powerful a man is, the greater is the obligation upon him to employ his gifts in the lessening of that sum of human misery.
John Randolph
Tablet #2
Those who labor in the earth . . . — — Map (db m87449) WM
On Stone Mountain Lithonia Road at Rockbridge Road, on the right when traveling south on Stone Mountain Lithonia Road. Reported missing.
On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [US] into two wings. The Right Wing . . . — — Map (db m206697) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Redmon Thornton and his wife Sarah Alford Thornton built this house in Greene County, Georgia after they moved to the area from Virginia. The house dates to around 1792, when George Washington was president. They had four children together and a . . . — — Map (db m208583) HM
On East Ponce de Leon Avenue at Silver Hill Road on East Ponce de Leon Avenue.
Here sleep, known but to God, approximately one hundred and fifty Confederate soldiers, most of whom died from disease, or wounds in the Confederate hospitals that were located near this spot. Some were killed in a skirmish with Federal raiders near . . . — — Map (db m33798) HM
