Prairie View Cemetery

Pioneer settlers in this vicinity met together for worship services in the Gum Springs Schoolhouse until 1892, when Stephen Taylor deeded land at this site for church and cemetery purposes. This historic cemetery began in the churchyard of the First ...

Site of Prairie Point Community

Anglo settlement of this part of Burnet County began in the 1850s. By the 1870s settlers had established cattle and sheep ranches as well as a number of family farms. A community school opened in 1882 and remained in operation ...

Italians in Georgia's Genesis

When James Oglethorpe left England to begin the new colony of Georgia, in 1732, one of the passengers was Paul Amatis, an Italian artisan, skilled in producing silk. He was later placed in charge of Trustees Garden. Later, more Italian ...

Wisconsin's Lime Industry

Lime production was an important nineteenth century industry in southeastern Wisconsin, primarily because the region’s geology provided abundant Silurian dolomite rock that was easily quarried. High quality lime, used mainly in mortar and plaster, was produced by burning dolomite in ...

Nicholsonboro

Nicholsonboro Community grew out of the turmoil of the last year of the Civil War and the first years of Reconstruction. General W. T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 reserved the sea islands

from Charleston southward, plus abandoned rice ...

Oldest Commercial Building in Burnet

Logan Vandeveer (1815-55), a hero of the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto, came here about 1849 as a Fort Croghan beef supplier. He became first United States Postmaster in Burnet and in 1854 built this native stone structure. With a ...

Early Oatmeal School

This building, once a combined school and church, was erected in 1869 in Oatmeal, second oldest community in Burnet County. The settlement, founded in 1849, had a post office from 1853 to 1876.

This limestone structure was successor to the first ...

Original 1733 Burial Plot

Original 1733 burial plot allotted by

James Edward Oglethorpe

to the Savannah Jewish Community.

Marker is at the intersection of W Oglethorpe Ave and Bull St., in the median on W Oglethorpe Ave.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Floyd County Honor Roll & Veterans Memorial

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Honor To our Civil War Veterans

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In honored memory of Floyd County men who gave their lives for our Country

Dedicated by

Hobart ...

Winder Building

Erected 1848

Purchased by

United States Government 1852

During the Civil War this building was Headquarters of the United States Army. Major General Winfield Scott, Major General Halleck and later Lieutenant General U.S. Grant had their offices here. It also ...