Grumblethorpe

Built 1744

John Wister’s

Big House

The Philadelphia Society

for the

Preservation of Landmarks

Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and W Queen Lane, on the right when traveling north on Germantown Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

United States Army Tank Corps

This spot marks the site of Camp Colt, the birthplace of the Tank Corps of the United States Army in the spring of 1918. Behind this marker stands a tree planted in soil from each of the 48 States and ...

Joel Roberts Poinsett

1779-1851

[Front]:

Born in Charleston, S.C., educated in this country and Great Britain, he travelled widely in Europe and Asia before returning to a distinguished career. He served South Carolina in the state legislature, 1816-1820; 1830-1832; and as Chairman of the Board ...

Confederate Camp

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Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens, named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of Confederacy, was about ½ mile from here on McIntosh Road. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at the Cavalry Camp Milner, located ...

Lowell Thomas’s Victor

Tomkins Hardware/Victor Museum

In 1900, the Victor museum building was the Tompkins [sic] Hardware Store, part of the Reynolds Block.

At one time the offices upstairs served as the Mining Exchange. In later years it became the Hackley Store and Hotel.

Victor’s most ...

Bethlehem Methodist Church

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Bethlehem Methodist Church, second oldest Methodist Church in Georgia and formerly known as Thompson’s Meeting House, sponsored the First Methodist Annual Conference in Georgia, on April 9, 1788. Bishop Asbury and his party, delayed by weather and illness, held the ...

Christopher Sower

1738                     1938

In commemoration of the

two hundredth anniversary

of the founding of the Printing

and Publishing House of

Christopher Sower

(1683 – 1758)

at 5255-5263 Germantown Ave. nearly

opposite

Fort Charlotte

6.6 miles southwest are the ruins of Fort Charlotte, built of local stone, 1765-1767, to protect the French, British, and German settlements near Long Canes. Maj. James Mayson's seizure of it, defended by Capt. George Whitfield and Lieut. St. Pierre, ...

William R. Johnson House / The Columns

William R. Johnson House

This Greek Revival house was built ca. 1854 for William R. Johnson, (1813-1893), physician, planter, and legislator in what was then Marion District. Johnson, an 1838 graduate of the Medical College of S.C., later served in the ...

Robert Gibbes

1644-1715

Early Barbadian supporter of the settlement of South Carolina Colonial Governor 1710-1712

Proprietor's Deputy Chief Justice of South Carolina

Member of 1st Assembly Colonel South Carolina Militia

Sent South Carolina Militia to aid North Carolinians

against the Tuscarora Indians