Two miles Northeast of here is the site of old Center Village, or Centerville, settled about 1800 and for many years an important trading center. To this village came the inhabitants of Ware, Pierce, Clinch, Coffee and Appling Counties, bringing . . . — — Map (db m12993) HM
Created by an Act of February 18, 1854 out of Camden County, Charlton County was named for Judge Robert M. Charlton of Savannah. Trader's Hill (Fort Alert), an important shipping point and head of navigation on St. Marys River, was the first County . . . — — Map (db m12951) HM
Memorial to Henry Roddenberry
Born 1803 – Died 1861
Son of George Roddenberry (1758 – 1850)
A Soldier in the American Revolution
Settled near Traders Hill about 1835
Indian War Mounted Soldier 1838 – 1839
A . . . — — Map (db m27443) HM
About 2 miles East, on this road, is the site of "Fort Alert, usually called Trader's Hill." Established in the 18th century, and defended by a stockade garrisoned by U.S. Troops, Trader's Hill was a refuge for settlers during the Indian Wars. At . . . — — Map (db m14472) HM
In 1736, Noble Jones, John Fallowfield and Henry Parker settled this important outpost on the colony's inland waterway to the south and named it Isle of Hope. Jones' Wormsloe plantation was fortified and armed against Spanish attack until
1742. . . . — — Map (db m9151) HM
In 1736, Noble Jones, John Fallowfield and Henry Parker settled this important outpost on the colony's inland waterway to the south and named it Isle of Hope. Jones' Wormsloe plantation was fortified and armed against Spanish attack until 1742. The . . . — — Map (db m16387) HM
Mulberry Grove which is located approximately 2 miles northeast from this marker is one of the most historic of the old Savannah River plantations.
In early Colonial days mulberry trees were cultivated at Mulberry Grove for use in Georgia's . . . — — Map (db m8064) HM
Near here stood Mulberry Grove, plantation home of General Nathanael Greene and Catherine Littlefield Greene. President George Washington twice visited the widowed Mrs. Greene at Mulberry Grove during the Southern tour of 1791. Traveling downriver . . . — — Map (db m18640) HM
Approximately 300 yards northeast of this marker there was located in colonial days a shipyard where at least one vessel capable of engaging in overseas trade was built. The creek on which it stood is known as Shipyard Creek. The site of the . . . — — Map (db m9399) HM
Granted 1739 to William Stephens
Secretary
Colony of Georgia
1737 - 1740
President
1743 - 1751
Here in 1779 under
Count d'Estaing the
French landed to join
the Americans under
General Lincoln in
the Siege Of Savannah . . . — — Map (db m9149) HM
This 1½ mile oak avenue leads to the tabby ruins of Noble Jones’ colonial fortified plantation. Jones and his family were original settlers in Georgia, arriving in Savannah with founder James E. Oglethorpe on February 1, 1733. As a middle-class . . . — — Map (db m10960) HM
Pin Point was settled in 1896 by former slaves from Ossabaw, Green, and Skidaway Islands. Sweetfield of Eden Baptist Church, founded in Pin Point in 1897, was a successor to Ossabaw’s Hinder Me Not Church and also served as the community's school . . . — — Map (db m54183) HM
Established by African Americans in the nineteenth century, Sandfly is centered around the intersection of Montgomery Crossroad and Skidaway Road. Many families in this community trace their ancestry to former slaves from nearby Wormsloe . . . — — Map (db m89794) HM
This is one of four sites historically used by African-Americans in the community to access the water. The White Bluff/Coffee Bluff area was originally settled in the nineteenth century by freed slaves from the nearby islands of St. Catherine, . . . — — Map (db m200267) HM
This grave links Savannah with one of history's greatest naval dramas - the epic fight in 1779 between the "Bon Homme Richard" and "Serapis" in which John Paul Jones immortalized himself.
Denis Nicolas Cottineau de Kerloguen received a commission . . . — — Map (db m5339) HM
In 1757, during the administration of royal Governor Henry Ellis, a line of earthwork defenses, including a palisade, was erected around Savannah. Immediately west of this marker was located Bethesda Gate, one of the six entrances into the town. . . . — — Map (db m5356) HM
Beneath this modest slab rest the remains of America's foremost painter of miniatures. Malbone, a native of Rhode Island, began his career in Providence at the age of seventeen. He pursued his calling in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston . . . — — Map (db m5369) HM
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
This Fountain Commemorates The Religious,
Social, Agricultural, Economic, And Political
Contributions Of Early German Immigrants
To The Establishment And Growth
Of The Colony Of Georgia.
erected And Dedicated in 1989
By Their . . . — — Map (db m5474) HM
Hugh McCall who is buried here was the author of the first history of Georgia.
Forced by ill health into retirement, McCall, who was a Brevet Major, U.S. Infantry, became interested in the history of his adopted State. In spite of severe . . . — — Map (db m5372) HM
The monument in this Square to James Edward Oglethorpe - the great soldier-philanthropist who founded the colony of Georgia - was erected by the State of Georgia, the City of Savannah and various Patriotic Societies. Impressive ceremonies marked . . . — — Map (db m5308) HM
Near this site on July 11, 1733, five months
after Oglethorpe founded Georgia, 42 Jewish
colonists, having sailed from London,
disembarked from the William and Sarah.
It was the largest group of Jews ever to sail
on one vessel from . . . — — Map (db m26707) HM
On the "trust lot" south of President Street and immediately west of this square stood in 1736- 37 the parsonage in which John Wesley resided. In the adjoining garden he read, prayed and meditated. Weekly meetings of members of his Christ Church . . . — — Map (db m5275) HM
Born in Pocotaligo, SC, Jonathan Bryan accompanied James Oglethorpe on his initial visit to Yamacraw Bluff in 1733. One of Georgia’s largest landholders, Bryan was a supporter of evangelist George Whitefield and encouraged religious services for his . . . — — Map (db m41816) HM
James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, landed with the original colonists, about 114 in number, at the foot of this bluff on February 1 (February 12, new style), 1733. The site where he pitched his tent is marked by the stone bench . . . — — Map (db m5263) HM
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
On this spot one hundred and seventy three years ago James Oglethorpe the founder of the colony pitched his tent and here rested at the close of the day from which Georgia was settled. — — Map (db m16064) HM
1736-1740
On this site stood the house
occupied by James Edward Oglethorpe
when in Savannah.
His home he made in Frederica
the better to protect
the young colony — — Map (db m6499) HM
The nearby Salzburger Monument of Reconciliation was dedicated to The Georgia Salzburger Society and given to the City of Savannah in 1994 by the State of Salzburg, Austria, in memory of the Lutheran Protestants of Salzburg who were denied . . . — — Map (db m6116) HM
Although slavery was illegal when the colony of Georgia was founded, it was a well established institution in other American colonies. Settlers were confronted with the economics to compete with slave labor. Carolinians produced cash crops with . . . — — Map (db m19587) HM
The colony of Georgia began on Savannah's waterfront in 1733. The riverfront has always played an important role in Georgia, whether as a colonial port, exporter of cotton, or tourist destination. The first commercial house below the bluff opened in . . . — — Map (db m4900) HM
The earliest streets were little more than sandy avenues and virtually all residential, commercial, and public structures were wood. As sailing vessels arrived to discharge and take on cargos, the cobblestones they carried as ballast were often . . . — — Map (db m19499) HM
Once known as the Strand and later as Irish Green because of its proximity to the Irish residents of Savannah's Old Fort neighborhood, this park was renamed in 1902 for the Irish patriot Robert Emmet (1778-1803) to commemorate the centennial of his . . . — — Map (db m6321) HM
One of the first problems facing Savannah settlers was the lack of adequate facilities to dock vessels. While river depths along the bluff Oglethorpe selected for the town provided excellent anchorage, the swift currents and steep bank made . . . — — Map (db m19608) HM
On January 18,1733, the British galley Anne arrived in Charleston, South Carolina with James Oglethorpe, 144 "sober, moral, and industrious" colonists and provisions to build a new colony south of the Savannah River in Georgia. While the . . . — — Map (db m19545) HM
The first Medical Society in Georgia, sixth oldest in America, was organized June 28, 1804, and continues to be active in Savannah today. Dr. Noble Wimberly Jones, first President, was the son of a member of General Oglethorpe's first settlers of . . . — — Map (db m12082) HM
This is Yamacraw Bluff where the Colony of Georgia was founded February 12, 1733 by Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe. Voted by the Georgia Daughters of the American Revolution the Most Historic Spot In Georgia — — Map (db m27423) HM
Tomo-Chi-Chi, Mico of the Yamacraws, a tribe of the Creek Indian Nation, is buried in this Square. He has been called a co-founder, with Oglethorpe, of Georgia. He was a good friend to the English, a friendship indispensable to the establishment of . . . — — Map (db m5406) HM
Mary Musgrove was the daughter of an English trader and a Creek Indian mother. In 1717 she and her husband, John, established Cowpens trading post near the Savannah River which became a center of 18th century English-Indian trade for deer hides. . . . — — Map (db m132897) HM
Georgia colonists were quick to experiment with
plants that could be cultivated to supply income.
While growing mulberry to produce silk, grapes to
produce wine and indigo to produce dye were
marginally successful, those early . . . — — Map (db m19369) HM
Long before Europeans arrived in the New World,
the Savannah area was occupied by Native Americans.
The earliest Paleoindian groups migrated into coastal
Georgia as early as 10,000 B.C. The hunter-gathers
took advantage of rich estuarine . . . — — Map (db m19379) HM
A critical priority for the first Georgia colonists was to identify and develop economic enterprises that could support the colony. Trade with native Americans was established and exports included hides that could be shipped to England and sold in . . . — — Map (db m19500) HM
The Hudson Hill community derives its name from the first pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church located on Weldon Street. The church, established on April 10, 1895, was served by Rev. A. Hudson for its first 13 years. Rev. Hudson was such an . . . — — Map (db m157283) HM
This is one of four sites historically used by African-Americans in the community to access the water. The White Bluff/Coffee Bluff area is unique in that, primarily because of its relative isolation, the community has been able to preserve many of . . . — — Map (db m200265) HM
African-American physician Cornelius McKane (1862-1912) was born in British Guiana and began medical practice in Savannah in 1892. Alice Woodby McKane (1865-1948) came to Georgia that same year – the only black female physician in the state at . . . — — Map (db m11727) HM
This is one of four sites historically used by African-Americans in the community to access the water. The White Bluff/Coffee Bluff area is in close proximity to St. Catherines Island, Ossabaw Island, and Sapelo Island, in addition to the Vernon and . . . — — Map (db m200266) HM
Founded 1742
Vernonburg
Has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior
June 22, 1990 — — Map (db m55016) HM
He was a physician and planter
who also served as Speaker of the
Georgia Assembly during the
Royal and Revolutionary Period.
Imprisoned by the British, he later
held a seat in the Continental
Congress and Ga's Constitutional . . . — — Map (db m64444) HM WM
This location first appears (1734) in Georgia's history as a Savannah outpost. An original settler was Thomas Mouse who is remembered for his description of early hardships here. An evangelical visitor in 1736 was John Wesley. By 1740 the settlement . . . — — Map (db m9400) HM
Roger Lacy (Lacey) arrived in Savannah in 1734. While a resident
of the Georgia Colony, he spent most of his time at a trading
post in Augusta. There he gained employment as a trader and served
as the post commander. Roger Lacy (Lacey) was a . . . — — Map (db m9494) HM
On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to commemorate . . . — — Map (db m5072) HM
(upper inscription):
John Wesley
landed in America
on this island.
February 6, 1736
(lower inscription):
From
the Journal of John Wesley
"Fri, 6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It . . . — — Map (db m12917) HM
Chattahoochee County, created by Act of February 13, 1854, was cut off from Muscogee and Marion Counties. It was named for the Chattahoochee River. Its courthouse, constructed in 1854, was built of select heart lumber from the Long Leaf Pine by . . . — — Map (db m38841) HM
The Old Federal Road, which intersected the Chattahoochee River at this natural fording site, was originally a Lower Creek Indian Nation trading path. With the advent of colonization, it became one of western Georgia's earliest and most important . . . — — Map (db m40597) HM
Chattooga County was created by Act of Dec. 28, 1838 from Floyd and Walker Counties. It was named for the river which flows through the county, called Chattooga by the Cherokee Indians. Sequoyah (George Guess or Gist), inventor of the Cherokee . . . — — Map (db m16374) HM
Built in the early 1840’s by Andrew McSelland Couey, this log house was one of the earliest pioneer homes in Chattooga County. As the land was cleared, the house was constructed of huge logs which were hoisted into place and carved into half . . . — — Map (db m134923) HM
A portrait of Dirt Town in the 1830s depicted the lifestyle of the majority of Cherokee communities. People led the life of subsistence farmers with simple log cabins, small cornfields and fruit orchards, and ranged livestock. Their lives . . . — — Map (db m221122) HM
In 1922 Rev. H.M. Melton of Bluffton Baptist Church challenged his congregation to set aside one acre of farmland and donate the proceeds from crops raised there to the cash-poor rural church. Seven farmers agreed. The "Lord's acres" not only . . . — — Map (db m228376) HM
Known by the Indians as A-Con-Hollo-Way Tal-lo fa (Highland Town), Fort Gaines, established as a frontier fort in 1816 by Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, was chartered as a town in 1830 and named for Gen Gaines. A shipping point for cotton planters for many . . . — — Map (db m47100) HM
Once surrounded by vast plantations, Sutton's Crossroads was a vital part of the social and economic lives of area farmers. Sutton's Store developed as a farm commissary on the Warren Sutton Sr. cotton plantation. From the pioneering days of the . . . — — Map (db m175177) HM
New Lowell United Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church worship services were conducted in this area during the early 1840’s in a brush arbor. The original church, known as Lowell, was destroyed by fire during the Civil War. From 1865 to . . . — — Map (db m23419) HM
Res. of Wm. Thames (1796-1892) pioneer citizen of Clayton, formerly Henry, County; veteran of the War of 1812; owner of a saw & grist mill on Flint River; pastor of Tanner’s Church.
Aug. 31, 1864. Troops of the Federal 23rd & 4th A. C., . . . — — Map (db m36727) HM
Historic Jonesboro, named in honor of Samuel Goode Jones in 1845, was founded in 1823 as Leaksville. Later Clayton County was created by the Act of November 30, 1858 from Fayette and Henry Counties, and Jonesboro became the County Seat. The town . . . — — Map (db m18815) HM
Near here stood the antebellum, one-story farm house of Marcus Long, a Confederate soldier who fell on a Virginia battlefield. The house, cited several times in Official Records, was a prominent landmark in movements of the Federal 4th and 23rd . . . — — Map (db m18826) HM
Council
Home of Langdale family
Original home site 2 mi. west
John Wesley Langdale 1860 - 1911
Nancy Burnsed Langdale 1863 - 1913
Children
John ·
Noah ·
Marley ·
Sadie Sandlin ·
Nancy Campbell ·
Susie Campbell · . . . — — Map (db m241243) HM
Site of ante-bellum trading post. Dam constructed in 1840 by Duncan Giddens; acquired by Miles J. Guest.1858, and enlarged by him. Water power used for grist mill and gin. Election precinct.1850-1920; Justice of Peace Court held here for area now . . . — — Map (db m102638) HM
Dr. James Peters built his family’s homestead here. The original house was a very early version of a two-room frame structure with two doors and two chimneys. Outbuildings included a barn, well, privy, and summer kitchen. The original rooms had 10" . . . — — Map (db m30655) HM
Israel Causey was one of the original pioneer settlers when he moved to Cobb County in 1833. The house, built during the gold rush era, is an example of a frame plain-style dwelling. At one time, his plantation contained more than 1,000 acres with . . . — — Map (db m33332) HM
The surrounding land was once part of Sweet Water Town. Named for a Native American who lived in the area, this Cherokee Village was a trading center that was significant enough to have been referenced on maps as late as 1864. A series of land . . . — — Map (db m33422) HM
Clarkdale is significant as an intact industrial village, locally called a mill village. Built according to a master plan for the employees of Clark Thread Company, it evolved into a self-contained community with commercial, social and recreational . . . — — Map (db m33466) HM
Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June . . . — — Map (db m17040) HM
Site of Gilgal Primitive Baptist Church, a log structure and prominent landmark during military operations, June 5-17, 1864, in which church was destroyed. Cleburne’s Div., Confederate, was posted at the ch., the left of Johnston’s line [CS] after . . . — — Map (db m17680) HM
The Indians knew this trail as the route from the heart of the Cherokee Nation to Standing Peachtree, Creek village that grew into a trading post and fort just south of the Chattahoochee. Pioneers who used Montgomery’s Ferry at Standing Peachtree . . . — — Map (db m11482) HM
In 1838, Robert and Pheriby Mable moved to this site and later purchased 300 acres of land from Denson Melton who had received it from the State of Georgia in a land lottery. They lived with their growing family in a two room cabin on the property. . . . — — Map (db m197627) HM
Robert Mable was born in Scotland in 1803 and immigrated with his family to New York State in 1820. At first, Robert lived and worked in Savannah, Georgia and then in Hancock County, Georgia where he married Pheriby Aycock in 1838.
In 1843, . . . — — Map (db m197625) HM
In the 1800s, a house fire would have been catastrophic, so food was prepared in this kitchen house and carried to the main house. Food was cooked in cast iron pots and pans in the fireplace and later, on a cast iron wood-burning stove. The two . . . — — Map (db m197622) HM
Ante-bellum res. of Robert Mable (1803-1885). July 3, 1864, Maj. Gen. F.P. Blair's 17th A.C., of McPherson's Army of the Tenn. [US], having marched from Kennesaw Mtn., via Sandtown rd., reached Moss' house (near Floyd Station), 1.2 mi. N. 2 P.M. . . . — — Map (db m12054) HM
In 1803, Georgia established a lottery as the fairest means of distributing land to common farmers. After gold was discovered in 1828 near Dahlonega, the state ignored federal treaties and asserted its claims on the Cherokee territory (including . . . — — Map (db m224740) HM
John D. Gantt came to Cobb County in the 1850s with his parents and siblings, and married in 1858. Although the family's farm was destroyed during the Civil War, they rebuilt and continued to acquire land. Years later, the family built this house, . . . — — Map (db m11321) HM
Already a well-established route in the 1700s, the Hightower Trail was a major Indian thoroughfare and part of a network of trails connecting Augusta with the Etowah River area and Alabama. The path crossed the Chattahoochee River at a shallow ford . . . — — Map (db m33432) HM
This cabin is one of the rare examples of a single-pen (one room) log house remaining in Cobb County. Although a framed addition was added later, the original hand-hewn, squared-and-notched log construction is still visible. William Power originally . . . — — Map (db m33350) HM
Lawyer, Legislator, Mayor, Judge Robert Flournoy moved to Marietta from Atlanta in 1957 to practice law. He served in the Georgia House 1963 – 1965, creating the Cobb State Court. Flournoy founded the Downtown Marietta Development Authority in . . . — — Map (db m46618) HM
Before the war, this small clearing held a typical north Georgia "dog-trot" cabin. If you lived here, you would know to be careful. The cabin's center breezeway was open to dogs, possums, skunks, or anything else that might trot through!
The . . . — — Map (db m243806) HM
Welcome to the William Root House, one of the oldest homes remaining in the Atlanta area! The home of the Root family from 1845 to 1886, the Root House is more typical of its time and place than the columned mansions popularized by Gone With the . . . — — Map (db m227648) HM
This County, created by Act of the Legislature February 9, 1854, is named for Gen. John Coffee who served in the Indian Wars and was a Member of Congress in 1833-36. He built the "Old Coffee Road," which forms part of the border between Berrien and . . . — — Map (db m24295) HM
The Murphy families were among early pioneer settlers who migrated from Duplin and Sampson Counties, North Carolina to this area between the 1790’s and early 1800’s. This area and surrounding land was inhabited by Lower Creek Indian tribes . . . — — Map (db m40867) HM
This site, along with 19,600 acres, was purchased through a state land lottery, September, 1843-44, by Rev. Eli Graves, formerly of Vermont. In March, 1848, all was sold to his brother, Presbyterian pastor, Rev. Joel S. Graves. In 1850, using . . . — — Map (db m40691) HM
Columbia County, named for Christopher Columbus, was created by Act of Dec. 10, 1790 from Richmond County. Originally, it contained parts of McDuffie and Warren Counties. Settled by Quakers before the Revolution, it has been the home of many . . . — — Map (db m27049) HM
"Happy Valley", homesite and burial place of Basil Neal, Revolutionary soldier, lies one-half mile off this highway in the direction the arrow points.
Basil Neal or O'Neal, was born in Maryland in 1758. When he was 17 years old his family . . . — — Map (db m27058) HM
The Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this section, crossed here, running southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today’s Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida line above Tallahassee. This thoroughfare . . . — — Map (db m53105) HM
Coweta, an original county, was created by Acts of June 9, 1825 and Dec. 11, 1826 from Creek cessions of Jan. 24, 1826 and Mar. 31, 1826. It was named Coweta to perpetuate the fame of the head chief of the Coweta Towns, Gen. William McIntosh, . . . — — Map (db m10497) HM
In July 1774 William Bartram entered Crawford County here, site of Marshall's Mill, going on to Knoxville, Roberta, and Cusetta. — — Map (db m59559) HM
Hernando de Soto and his army after crossing to the west side of Flint River near Bainbridge, recrossed it on March 31, 1540, between the mouths of Jones and Gum creeks, and stopped at the town of the Ichisi chief. He was the first that came to . . . — — Map (db m52884) HM
This County, created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 3, 1857, is named for William C. Dawson who died in 1856, having served in Congress from Dec. 1836 to Nov. 1842, and in the U.S. Senate from 1849 to 1855. He also commanded a brigade in the Creek . . . — — Map (db m33546) HM
Side 1 "The village," located one mile south, was a community for workers of the Attapulgus Clay Co. featuring 20 houses, a telephone, and a company store. It stood from 1930-1955. Those who lived there worked 12 hrs. daily mining a type of . . . — — Map (db m170371) HM
Attapulgus was one of the first settlements in Decatur County, Georgia. It was first known as the Borough of Pleasant Grove. The name was changed when a post office was established in 1838. “Attapulgus” was taken from a Creek Indian . . . — — Map (db m40944) HM
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