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By Dale K. Benington, July 14, 2011
Fort McIntosh Marker
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1 Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver — Fort McIntoshYou Are Here
On River Road east of Market Street, on the right when traveling east.
Many famous names were associated with Fort McIntosh, including commanders Lachlan McIntosh, Danial Brodhead and Josiah Harmar, treaty commissioners George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler and Arthur Lee, geographer Thomas Hutchins, and presidential . . . Map (db m44748) HM
2 Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver — Commanding OfficersFort McIntosh
On River Road east of Market Street, on the right when traveling east.
Col. John Gibson - 1778 Brig. Gen. Lachlan McIntosh - 1778 Lt. Col. Richard Campbell - 1778 Col. Daniel Brodhead - 1778-1779 Capt. John Clark - 1779 & 1781 Capt. Samuel Dawson - 1779 Capt. Robert Beal - 1779 Capt. Simon Morgan - 1779 . . . Map (db m44746) HM
3 Georgia, Gwinnett County, Lawrenceville — 067-1 — Button Gwinnett
On North Clayton Street (Georgia Route 20) 0 miles West Crogan Street (U.S. 29), on the left when traveling north.
Button Gwinnett, for whom this county was named, was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1735, the son of a Church of England minister. He worked in the store of his father-in-law in Dexter for two years, then as an importer and exporter for three . . . Map (db m84791) HM
4 Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Monaca — Brodheads Road
Near North Branch Road, 0.3 miles north of North Broadhead Road when traveling south.
Beaver Countys first highway constructed 1778 by General Lachlan McIntosh as a supply route from Fort Pitt to Fort McIntosh Colonel Daniel Broadhead succeeded to the command of the fort in 1779 and his name was associated with the road.Map (db m50887) HM
5 Ohio, Tuscarawas County, Bolivar — Fort Laurens
Near SW Park Avenue (County Route 102).
The first and only fort of the Revolutionary War, established within the limits of what is now Ohio, was built here in December 1778 by General Lachlan McIntosh, as a defense against the British and Indians, and held until early in August 1779 . . . Map (db m3277) HM
6 Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver — McIntosh Square
On 3rd Street at Commerce Street, on the left when traveling west on 3rd Street.
In honor of Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh; born 1727 in Scotland, died 1806. Appointed Western Department Commander of the Continental Army by General Washington May 1778. Erected Fort McIntosh in the fall of 1778, serving as its first . . . Map (db m40242) HM
7 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Historic District - North — 25-3 — Washington’s Southern Tour
Near Bull Street near East Congress Street, on the left when traveling north.
During his Southern tour of 1791, President George Washington attended services at the original Christ Church on Sunday, May 15. While in Savannah from May 12-15, Washington lodged at a house on the corner of Barnard and State streets on St. James . . . Map (db m5696) HM
8 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Historic District - North — 025-20 — Colonial Park
Near Oglethorpe Ave at Abercorn St, on the right.
This cemetery, the second in colonial Savannah, was the burying ground for the city from about 1750 until it was closed against burials in 1853. Among the distinguished dead who rest here are Archibald Bulloch, first President of Georgia; James . . . Map (db m5313) HM
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9 Georgia, McIntosh County, Eulonia — 095-21 — Rice Hope
On Ocean Highway (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling south.
Famous Rice and Indigo Plantation of Colonial and Revolutionary times, Rice Hope was the home of George McIntosh, son of John McIntosh Mor of Darien, and brother of General Lachlan McIntosh. George McIntosh was Official Surveyor for St. Andrew`s . . . Map (db m11199) HM
10 Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver — Fort McIntosh
On River Road at Insurance Street, on the right when traveling east on River Road.
Fort McIntosh, 1778-1788, built by General Lachlan McIntosh's continentals of the 8th Pennsylvania and 13th Virginia, veterans of Saratoga, Brandywine, Germantown, and Valley Forge, and Virginia Militia, was the first fort built north of the Ohio by . . . Map (db m44747) HM
11 Georgia, McIntosh County, Darien — 095-23 — General's Island
On Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) 0.8 miles south of Darien, on the right when traveling north.
This island was the property of General Lachlan McIntosh by a grant of 1758, and was the principal home of his family up to and during the early years of the Revolution. The island was in rice cultivation for many years. In 1808, a Canal, . . . Map (db m11281) HM
12 Georgia, Liberty County, Sunbury — 089-4B — SunburyHome of Many Famous Persons
On Brigantine Dunsmore Road at Fort Morris Road, on the right when traveling north on Brigantine Dunsmore Road.
Many famous persons lived in the town of Sunbury. Among them was Dr. Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was also the home of Richard Howley and Nathan Brownson, later governors of Georgia; of John Elliott and Alfred Cuthbert, . . . Map (db m8953) HM
13 Pennsylvania, Beaver County, Beaver — General Lachlan McIntosh
On River Road east of Market Street, on the right when traveling east.
General Lachlan McIntosh First Commander, Fort McIntosh President, Society of the Cincinnati in The State of Georgia, 1783-1789 Erected by the Society 1978Map (db m44737) HM
14 Georgia, Glynn County, St. Simons Island — 063-4A — Sinclair Plantation
On Lawrence Road, 1.8 miles north of Frederica Road, on the right when traveling north.
This was the plantation of Archibald Sinclair, tything man of the town of Frederica. In 1765 it was granted to Donald Forbes as bounty land for his services in Oglethorpe's regiment. Forbes sold to Gen. Lachlan McIntosh of Revolutionary War fame, . . . Map (db m12509) HM
15 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Historic District - North — 025-30 — General Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806)
On Abercorn St, on the right when traveling north.
Lachlan McIntosh, Georgia's ranking Continental officer in the American Revolution, was the son of John Mor Mackintosh who settled with a group of Highlanders on the Altamaha in 1736. Lachlan served as a cadet in Oglethorpe’s Regiment and received . . . Map (db m5400) HM
16 Georgia, Glynn County, St. Simons Island — Pike's Bluff
On Lawrence Road, on the left when traveling north.
In circa 1740, James Oglethorpe established a watch house west of here on the bank of the Frederica River. In 1745, Edward Kimber described this site as a place "from whence they can see Vessels a great Way to the Northward" and it served as a . . . Map (db m73889) HM
17 Georgia, McIntosh County, South Newport — 095-11 — The McIntosh Family Of McIntosh County
On Coastal/Ocean Highway (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling south.
The service of this family to America, since the first of the Clan, with their leader, Captain John McIntosh Mohr, came from the Highlands of Scotland to Georgia, in 1736, forms a brilliant record. The roll of distinguished members of this . . . Map (db m10503) HM
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18 South Carolina, Pickens County, Clemson — 39-4 — Hopewell / Hopewell Indian Treaties
On Old Cherry Road (State Highway 149) near Camp Road (State Highway 4-56), on the left when traveling west.
Hopewell Hopewell was the family home of General Andrew Pickens, Revolutionary War hero and Indian Commissioner, and his wife, Rebecca Calhoun Pickens. Their son, Andrew Pickens, S.C. Governor, 1816-1818, later owned Hopewell, and it was the . . . Map (db m9586) HM
19 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Midtown — British Evacuation
On West Park Avenue near Bull Street, in the median.
Commemorative of the British Evacuation Of Savannah 1782 Presented to the City of Savannah By the Lachlan McIntosh Chapter Daughters Of The American Revolution 1904 Map (db m10356) HM
20 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Historic District - North — 025-11 — Nathanael Greene, Maj. Gen., Continental ArmyJohn Maitland, Lt. Col., 71st Regt. of Scotch Foot
Near East Oglethorpe Ave..
This tomb, known as the Graham vault, possesses the distinction of having been the burial place of two heroes of the Revolutionary War, one American and the other British. Lt. Col. John Maitland of Lauder, Scotland, son of the 6th Earl of . . . Map (db m5342) HM
21 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Historic District - North — 025-49 — Major John Berrien(1759 - 1815)
Near East Oglethorpe Ave..
In 1775 John Berrien of New Jersey came to the province of Georgia, where one of his mother's kin had previously settled. His father, John Berrien (1711-1772), was a judge of the supreme court of New Jersey and a trustee of Princeton College. From . . . Map (db m5341) HM
 
 
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