Historical Markers and War Memorials in Quitman, Georgia

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Quitman, Georgia

1 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — 014-9 — Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church —

On Bethlehem Church Road at Grooverville Road, on the left when traveling south on Bethlehem Church Road.

Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church about 4 miles Southwest of here, was constituted November 29, 1834. The charter members included: William T. Rushing, his wife, Belinda; Asa Geiger, his wife, Nancy; William Jones, his wife, Elizabeth; James . . . — — Map (db m14747) HM

2 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — 014-1 — Brooks County —

On East Screven Street (U.S. 84) at South Court Street (U.S. 221), on the right when traveling west on East Screven Street.

This county created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 11, 1858, is named for Preston Smith Brooks, zealous defender of States Rights. Born in S.C. Aug. 6, 1819, Brooks served in the Mexican War & in Congress. He died June 27, 1857. The first County . . . — — Map (db m26977) HM

3 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — Brooks County Veterans Monument —

On E. Screven Street at S. Court Street, on the right when traveling west on E. Screven Street.

Brooks County Veterans They All Gave Some Gave All — — Map (db m102343) WM

4 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — 14-1 — Civil War Slave Conspiracy —

On South Court Street (U.S. 221) at West Screven Street (U.S. 84), on the right when traveling south on South Court Street.

In August 1864, during the American Civil War, four men were executed in Brooks County, Georgia, for conspiring to plot a slave insurrection. The conspirators – led by a local white man, John Vickery, and three slaves named Nelson, George, and . . . — — Map (db m40368) HM

5 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — 014-5 — Old Coffee Road — ← → —

On Moultrie Highway (Georgia Route 333) at Coffee Road, on the left when traveling south on Moultrie Highway.

The Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this area, crossed here, leading southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today's Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida Line. The thoroughfare was opened by . . . — — Map (db m14763) HM

6 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — Our Confederate Dead —

On E. Screven Street at S. Court Street, on the right when traveling west on E. Screven Street.

Our Confederate Dead. Erected By The Ladies Memorial Association 1878. ( back ) Brothers! Rest In Peace. — — Map (db m102344) WM

7 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — Quitman United Methodist Church — Built 1895 —

On East Screven Street (U.S. 221) just east of South Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling east.

is listed on the National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m191061) HM

8 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — Quitman Veterans Memorial —

On E. Screven Street at S. Court Street, on the right when traveling west on E. Screven Street.

To Those Who Gave Much. To Those Who Gave All Quitman and Brooks County Dedicates This Memorial November 11, 1921 Erected by Quitman Chapter United Daughters of The Confederacy 1st Lt. Wilbur Oglesby Privates Arthur Culpepper · . . . — — Map (db m102345) WM

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9 ► Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman — 014-2 — West End Cemetery —

On Thomasville Road (U.S. 84) 0 miles west of South Laurel Street, on the right when traveling east.

In this cemetery, during the last year of the War Between the States, a number of Confederate soldiers, 17 of them unknown, were buried. Memorial services for these soldiers were held as early as 1869. In 1871, on Memorial Day, April 26, a group of . . . — — Map (db m26978) HM

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