Statham High School

In Honor - Paul T. Barrett

Educator; 52 years service in education. Born Feb. 12, 1900 Ila, Ga., Graduate of University of Georgia. Taught: Maysville, Cornelia, Buford 1920-1933. Principal - Coach Statham School 1933 - 1957. Supt. Barrow County Schools ...

The Story of the "Bell" at Dorchester Academy

Dorchester Academy

The Midway Congregational Church bell played a very important role in the lives of Dorchester Academy students. It kept time by ringing with an echo that could be heard seven to ten miles away. The bell rang every day ...

Thorogood Plantation / Mount Holly Plantation

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Thorogood Plantation

In 1682 the Lords Proprietors granted 3,000 acres here, on a branch of the Back River, to Joseph Thorogood (d. 1684). Though Thorogood only owned the plantation two years and his widow Jane sold it after ...

Midway Congregational Church 1872 - Present

Dorchester Academy

The Old Midway Congregational Church, two

miles east on U.S. Highway 17, was formed

by whites (Puritans & Congregationalists )

when they settled in Liberty County. They

were driven to church by their black slaves

who were allowed to sit in the ...

Campaign for Atlanta: Johnston's Review

On April 19, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston reviewed the Confederate Army of Tennessee on this ridge. After his appointment in December 1863, Johnston rebuilt a defeated and demoralized army following Confederate General Braxton Bragg's defeat at the Battle of ...

First State Fair

October 1-2, 1851

Thirteen counties were represented here at the first state fair sponsored by the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. Entries included horses, cattle, sheep, swine, farming implements, dairy products, flour and corn meal, domestic manufactures, needle work, fruits, vegetables and ...

Memorial to Arizona Confederate Troops

Memorial to

Arizona Confederate Troops

1861 - 1865

United Daughters of the Confederacy

1961

"A Nation That Forgets its Past has no Future"

Marker can be reached from Adams Street 0.1 miles west of 15th Avenue and Adams.

Courtesy hmdb.org

S.C.L.C. and the Voter Education Program 1962-1970

Dorchester Academy

Citizenship Schools

Dorchester Cooperative Center played a key role in the struggle for civil rights and the vote.

In 1954, Septima Clarke, a school teacher from Charleston, SC and Esau Jenkins, a farmer and school bus driver from Johns Island, SC, ...

Batteries F & K, Third U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Batteries F & K Third U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. John C. Turnbull Commanding

July 1 Took position on crest of hill near General ...

Confederate Monument

The Confederate Monument was erected on November 13, 1907 and dedicated May 2, 1908 by the Jasper Chapter No. 925 United Daughters of the Confederacy under the leadership of Elizabeth Cain Musgrove to honor the 1900 soldiers who served from ...