Washington-Wilkes Firsts

1775 First stone marker indicating George III land grant Fort Washington Park

1777 First county named in Georgia’s first constitution

1779 First African-American Revolutionary hero in the South. Austin Dabney – Battle of Kettle Creek

1780 First city incorporated in the name ...

George Washington Paused Here

George Washington

Paused here on the Post Road near this church, on October 16, 1789 and afterward wrote in his diary, "the superb landscape which is to be seen from the meeting house is a rich regalia".

In Commemoration ...

George Washington Memorial Highway

This tablet marks

the

George

Washington

Memorial

Highway

at

Waltham

1732 ------- 1932

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 20) and Weston Street (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling east on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James Washington Cockrum

[Side 'One']

Born 1799 in North Carolina. Purchased land 1818 in Gibson County. Cockrum and Jacob Warrick Hargrove laid out the town of Oakland (now Oakland City) on January 15, 1856. Cockrum and his son William Monroe Cockrum, along with sympathizers ...

Washington's Southern Tour

George Washington's last overnight stop in N.C., June 3, 1791, was at the home of Dudley Gatewood, which stood 1 mi. N.E.

Marker is on North Carolina Highway 86 North (North Carolina Route 86) 0.1 miles south of Walters Mill Road ...

George Washington Statue

George Washington was born in Virginia on February 22, 1732. As a boy, he excelled in field sports, and though

his formal education was limited, he exhibited skill in mathematics and surveying.

In the French and Indian War, though ...

Washington Street Methodist Church

A church was built here between 1803 and 1805; another church, erected 1832, was burned by Union troops in 1865 and reconstructed in 1866 of salvaged brick and clay mortar. Present church dedicated 1875. Bishop Wm. Capers (1790-1855), founder of ...

General George Washington

in frequent visits to the American

troops encamped nearby during the

War of the

Revolution

drank at this spring

and gave it its name

Cold Spring.

Marker is at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Main Street, on the left ...

Swayne College / Booker T. Washington School

Side A

Named for Union General and Freemen’s Bureau Agent Wager Swayne, Swayne College was dedicated 21 April 1869. The Bureau appropriated $10,000 for the building and the local black community purchased 3.5 acres for the site. Future officeholder Elijah Cook ...

First Court of Washington County

On Feb. 23, 1778, 0.6 mile NE at the house of Col. Charles Robertson, Trustee, on the east “east (Catbird) branch of Sinking Creek” was held the First Court of the newly formed County of Washington, North Carolina, with John ...