Columbus Baptist Association

The Columbus Baptist Association was organized November 22, 1829 at Mulberry Meeting House (then New Hope), 10 miles from here, at Mulberry Grove. Twelve churches reporting from Talbot. Harris, and Muscogee Counties formed this Association, Churches from Harris County included ...

Bacon County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature July 27, 1914, is named for Augustus O. Bacon, four times U.S. Senator, who died in office Feb. 15, 1914. An expert on Mexican affairs, his death was a great loss coming ...

Little Britain, N.Y.

Settle 1724 by John Humphrey, named by Peter Mulliner 1729, birthplace of New York's first Governor & U.S. Vice-President 1805-1812 George Clinton.

Marker is on Little Britain Road (New York Route 207) 0.2 miles from Druy Lane (New York Route 747). ...

Site of Byron Jackson’s First Machine Shop

Byron Jackson (1841-1921) was an inventor and manufacturer of farm equipment and pumps. His name endures on pumps used in agriculture, petroleum, mining, power generations and water supply. Born in Ohio, Jackson moved to Woodland with his parents in 1860. ...

Burnt District

More than 1,000 buildings burned between 4th and 15th Streets, from Main Street to the river.

“The sky in the direction of Richmond is lurid with the glare of burning houses. …It was as if a great battle were going on ...

Tobacco District

“Tobacco is in almost everyone’s mouth either for mastication, fumigation, inhalation, or discussion.” Samuel Mordecai, 1860

“In south Richmond…even the baloney sandwiches and measles epidemics always wore a faint odor of cure tobacco.” Tom Robbins, Novelist, 1976

From colonial times through World ...

Masonic Building

The Mountain Shade Lodge No. 18 F. & A.M. received it’s charter on May 5, 1852. Prior to that date they operated under a dispensation. The Masons met originally in the Craycroft Building. Then erected their own building on this ...

Archibald's Mill

Side A:

In 1833, Archibald Smith (1803-83) began to build a sawmill a short distance east of here where a tributary enters Blacklick Creek. His work was soon destroyed, he wrote, by a “rise of water known as the great Fourth ...

Brick Store

December 24, 1821

The General Store and residence of Martin Kolb was named by the Georgia General Assembly as the temporary meeting place for elections and courts of the newly formed Newton County.

The first justices of the inferior court were George ...

Ivey's Building

This Property Has Been

Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

By The United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of South Beach Street and Magnolia Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Beach Street.

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