Historical Markers in Warthen, Georgia

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Historical Markers in Warthen, Georgia

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

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 —

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 —

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 —

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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