The Georgia Guidestones

The story of the Georgia Guidestones began in June 1979, when a stranger identified as "Mr. Christian" (later "R.C. Christian") visited Jo H. Fendley, Sr., President of Elberton Granite finishing Company, Inc., and indicated that he represented a group of ...

Van Den Corput's Georgia Battery

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Van Den Corput's Georgia Battery

4-12 Pdr. Napoleons.

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Stevenson's Division, Breckinridge's Corps.

Capt. Max. Van Den Corput, Commanding.

1st Lieut. M.L. McWhorter,

2d Lieut. W.S. Hoge,

2d Lieut. J.E. Stilwell,

2d Lieut. W.A. Russell.

Nov. 25, 1863, 2 P.M.

The Battery ...

Amsterdam, Georgia / Shade Grown Tobacco

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Amsterdam, Georgia

In 1891, A. Cohn & Co. purchased 14,000 acres for tobacco cultivation and named it Amsterdam. At that time, the property was the largest tobacco plantation in the world under one ownership. In 1907, seven of the larger ...

Site of U.S. Post Office Reynoldsville, Georgia / Reuben Arthur

Side 1: Site of U.S. Post Office Reynoldsville, Georgia

On this site was situated the Reynoldsville Post Office from April 5, 1898 to April 20, 1913. The community was named by the Post Office Department in honor of Reuben Arthur Reynolds ...

Georgianna Church

Georgianna United Methodist Church was built in the community of Georgiana on Merritt's Island in 1886. The ringing of the church bell still marks the beginning of worship as it has for many decades. Franklin C. Allen, Jr., a local ...

Georgiana Railway

In 1892, Frank Cass Allen, a Georgiana merchant, began building a 0.6-mile standard-gauge railway with steel rail and wood ties across Merritt Island at this location, connecting docks on the Indian and Banana rivers. It was part of his private ...

National Historic Landmark- Georgian Court

National Historic Landmark - Georgian Court

Completed in 1898, this palatial --Georgian Revival-- estate was designed for George Jay Gould (1864-1923), the wealthy eldest son of Jay Gould, by Bruce Price (1845-1903), who was among the most able and well-known architects ...

National Historic Landmark - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

National Historic Landmark - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

Georgia O'Keeffe occupies a pivotal, pioneering position in American art.

She created her own style by adapting early modernist tenets to quintessentially American motifs.

Her stark paintings of cattle skulls bleached by the desert ...

M. W. Grand Lodge of Georgia

Free and Accepted Masons

The first Masonic meeting in Georgia was held in 1734 at the town of Sunbury in what is now Liberty County, with General James Edward Oglethorpe serving as Worshipful Master. This was just seventeen years after the ...

Geographic Center of Georgia

One and one tenth mile south-southeast from this marker is the geographic center of the state. The center is defined as the balance point of a plane or thin sheet of a uniform thickness in the shape of the area. ...