Markers related to the inspirational life of George Washington Carver, who rose out of enslavement to become an inventor and educator whose work has positively influenced the lives of generations.
By Mark Hilton, November 16, 2016
Brief History of Tuskegee, Alabama Marker (Reverse)
Tuskegee consists of 80 square miles and is the county seat of Macon County, Alabama. Tuskegee rests in the heart of the rural Alabama Black Belt and is 40 miles east of Montgomery. Tuskegee was founded by General Thomas S. Woodward in 1833 after he . . . — — Map (db m99679) HM
On February 10, 1940 George Washington Carver signed the deed of gift establishing the Carver Foundation with a $33,000 contribution from his personal savings. According to Carver, the foundation was established "for the purpose of combining . . . — — Map (db m101912) HM
The primary idea in all of my work was to help the farmer and fill the poor man's empty dinner pail . . .
—George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver taught classes and developed new products from peanuts, . . . — — Map (db m101938) HM
We also felt that we must not only teach the students how to prepare their food but how to serve and eat it properly. Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work
Hospitality continues to reign in this . . . — — Map (db m100274) HM
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.
The centre of his world was the South where he was born in . . . — — Map (db m100165) HM
More than 8,000 people, White and Colored, rich and poor, from the lowliest farm and the richest Fifth Avenue mansion crowded in and around the school chapel to pay homage [to Booker T. Washington].
—Baltimore . . . — — Map (db m99943) HM
Dedicated to the Memory of George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, Citizen - Scientist - Benefactor who rose from slavery to fame and gave to our country an everlasting heritage. Ness County is proud to honor him and claim him as a pioneer. This stone . . . — — Map (db m61956) HM
A mile and half south is a quarter section of land originally homesteaded by George Washington Carver. An African American and one of America's great scientists, Carver revolutionized agriculture in the South with his discoveries. From sweet . . . — — Map (db m61955) HM
“My work, my life, must be in the spirit of a little child seeking only to know the truth and follow it.”
A man of many visions……George Washington Carver was born a slave in 1860. He earned his Masters Degree from the Iowa State . . . — — Map (db m120556) HM
One of history's great scientists worked here.
Renowned scientist George Washington Carver and Henry Ford became friends in 1936. Both were interested in developing synthetic rubber and plastics from soybeans, peanuts and cotton. Ford built . . . — — Map (db m120318) HM
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was born in Diamond Grove, MO. As an agricultural chemist and inventor at Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, in Alabama, he developed a system of crop rotation. He also discovered 300 uses for . . . — — Map (db m261463) HM
George Washington Carver believed in the usefulness of all things. His active mind found hundreds of new uses for items others had thrown away.
He went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and "started (his) laboratory with bottles, . . . — — Map (db m311960) HM
In the 1860s and 1870s Moses Carver grew hundreds of bushels of oats, corn, hay, and Irish potatoes in these fields. This farm where young George played and worked also produced fruit, wool, beeswax, honey, molasses, and livestock. When he left, . . . — — Map (db m311951) HM
I recall when just a boy just starting up to do art work that I longed to paint flowers so that they would speak to the beholder, and inspire and enthuse them to do great things…
George Washington Carver, Letter to J.J. Lewis, . . . — — Map (db m311952) HM
Immediately after George Washington Carver’s death in 1943, the United States Congress recognized the importance of keeping his memory alive by establishing Carver’s birthplace as a national monument.
George Washington Carver first made an . . . — — Map (db m42009) HM
Immediately after George Washington Carver’s death in 1943, the United States Congress recognized the importance of keeping his memory alive by establishing Carver’s birthplace as a national monument. You are visiting the first national park . . . — — Map (db m311906) HM
The cabin site offers an impression of the slave cabin in which Carver was born. Its mysteries reflect the confused circumstances of Carver's early life.
The log cabin in which George Washington Carver was born was not built with the . . . — — Map (db m42011) HM
The log cabin footprint here offers an impression of the one in which Carver was born, its mysteries reflect the confused circumstances of Carver's early life.
Moses Carver originally built the single room log cabin for himself and his . . . — — Map (db m311895) HM
Right Road
…how can I be sure that I’m on the right road?… “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Now you must learn to look to Him for direction and then follow, and you will never go wrong.
George . . . — — Map (db m42892) HM
I was just a mere boy when converted, hardly ten years old. There isn't much of a story to it. God just came into my heart one afternoon while I was alone in the loft of our big barn while I was shelling corn…one of our neighbors, about my . . . — — Map (db m311944) HM
In the late 1860s and early 1870s when George rambled in these woods, he never saw this pond. Below the still waters you see trapped here today is the gravel-and-rock-filled bed of a spring-fed creek.
Here young George often frolicked with . . . — — Map (db m311947) HM
As an impressionable young boy, George Washington Carver looked on as friends and neighbors were interred in the Moses Carver Family Cemetery. The cemetery may contain as many as 40 graves dating as far back as 1835, but only 21 of the graves have . . . — — Map (db m42033) HM
Just inside these walls you can find the markers for the couple who homesteaded this farm from the 1830s and raised young George - Moses and Susan Carver. They rest here among neighbors from the Brown, Davis, Dunn, Ellis, McGinnis, and Williams . . . — — Map (db m311956) HM
This spring was the closest drinking water for the Carver household in the 1860s. Accoring to George, he was too frail for field work. His guardian, Susan Carver, gave him many household chores including drawing water from this spring. As a typical . . . — — Map (db m42030) HM
I am up each morning at or about four, and I go outdoors and look. I look at everything of nature, trees, birds, weeds, grass, insects, flowers. This is my way of communing - early in the morning. -
George Washington . . . — — Map (db m311931) HM
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked with God.
George Washington Carver, to Glenn Clark, 1935
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George Washington Carver on one of his daily . . . — — Map (db m311955) HM
The farm on which George Washington Carver grew up was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. While George’s path in life took him far from here, he considered this farm his first home.
In the 1830s, Moses and Susan Carver moved from Sangamon . . . — — Map (db m42007) HM
The farm on which George Washington Carver grew up was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. While George’s path in life took him far from here, he considered this farm his first home.
In the late 1830s, Moses and Susan Carver moved from Sangamon . . . — — Map (db m311927) HM
Day after day I spent in the woods alone in order to collect my floral beautis and put them in my little garden I had hidden in brush…
George Washington Carver, letter to Mrs. W.A. Liston, 1908
Somewhere in these . . . — — Map (db m311941) HM
Sometime near the end of the Civil War, a slave was born here in a cabin. His mother, Mary, named the baby - her second son - George. Moses Carver had purchased Mary as an enslaved person back in 1855, when she was about 13 years old.
Years of . . . — — Map (db m42028) HM
In a world aflame with war and every species of hatred, no name can evoke greater goodwill than that of Dr. George Washington Carver of Tuskegee…a man whose whole life has been dedicated to…all mankind…Dr. Carver has lived to make men free, . . . — — Map (db m311933) HM
William Williams married Moses Carver's niece, Sarah Jane Carver, in 1853 and they built their home beside this spring. Their two children, Daniel and Martha, played with George Washington Carver as they grew up on the farm.
During the 1930's . . . — — Map (db m42031) HM
A former slave boy, George Washington Carver came to Neosho in the 1870s seeking an education. At Neosho’s Lincoln School, he began his long climb out of ignorance. This was his first step toward becoming a world-famous scientist and teacher at . . . — — Map (db m43025) HM
