Historical Markers in Warthen, Georgia

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Historical Markers in Warthen, Georgia

1 ► Georgia, Washington County, Warthen — 150-6 — President Jefferson Davis —

On Warthen Road (Georgia Route 15) 0.2 miles north of Bay Springs Road.

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America and party camped near here in a wooded area, when trying to reach Mobile, in his flight from Federal Soldiers. The party, on horseback, stopped at Warthen’s Store to purchase food . . . — — Map (db m24361) HM

2 ► Georgia, Washington County, Warthen — Site of First Washington County Jail —

On Warthen Lane, 0 miles Warthen Lane, on the right when traveling south.

Erected 1783, of logs Aaron Burr incarcerated here 1807, en route to trial for treason — — Map (db m24396) HM

3 ► Georgia, Washington County, Warthen — 150-4 — Warthen —

On Warthen Road (Georgia Route 15) 0 miles south of Warthen Lane, on the right when traveling south.

Washington County, which once embraced all the territory from the Cherokee corner North, from the Ogeechee to the Oconee and the Liberty on the South, was surveyed in 1784. Soon the small settlement known as Warthen’s Store was designated as the . . . — — Map (db m24393) HM

4 ► Georgia, Washington County, Warthen — Warthen Historic District —

On Mitchell Road (Georgia Route 102) 0.8 miles south of Hamburg State Park Road (Georgia Route 248), on the right when traveling south.

placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior 1997 — — Map (db m227238) HM

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