Battle of the Big Blue

left marker

Oct. 22, 1864

Union General Curtis set up a defensive line on the west side of the Big Blue River from the Missouri River upstream for 15 miles to stop Confederate General Price advancing from the east. A ...

Washington-Wilkes Firsts

1775 First stone marker indicating George III land grant Fort Washington Park

1777 First county named in Georgia’s first constitution

1779 First African-American Revolutionary hero in the South. Austin Dabney – Battle of Kettle Creek

1780 First city incorporated in the name ...

To the memory of Jacob Ruppert

1867 - 1939

Gentleman • American • Sportsman

Through whose vision and courage this imposing edifice, destined to become the home of champions, was erected and dedicated to the American game of baseball.

Marker can be reached from the intersection ...

Fort Bowyer War of 1812

At, or near, this site, the United States, after seizing this point of land from the Spanish in 1813, built Fort Bowyer, a structure of wood and sand.

A small garrison of men courageously fought to defend the fort against ...

Hoffman Hotel 1852

Hotel provided lodging for visitors to town and court sessions, and for male students of the original Gaston College.

Jury was sequestered on the third floor "Bull Pen."

Daniel Hoffman was the builder, Jonas Hoffman, Second proprietor, structure was later used as ...

Delaying Forrest

"...a decided stand"

(Preface):

In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood ...

Old Federal Road

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The earliest vehicular and postal route from northwest Georgia was the Federal Road, which led from the southeast Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens, Georgia to Tennessee; a Y-shaped thoroughfare, it forked at Ramhurst toward Knoxville and ...

The Story of the Bell

By Mrs. Mary Meyers

The talk was the dream of Rev. J.A. Marler, Pastor, to have a church bell. The members were too poor to buy one. Several men began to make plans to purchase a bell by raising money through ...

Site of Columbia Male Academy

Trustees appointed by legislature 1792 were incorporated 1795 and served as trustees for male and female academies. School located here 1827 on land given by Gov. John Taylor. Though publicly endowed, the school was conducted as a private academy until ...

A Trophy of War

After the fall of Fort Fisher, the Armstrong gun became a war trophy and the focus of photographs and newspaper articles. Union soldiers, such as Captain Trickey of the 3rd New Hampshire, noted the “elegantly mounted Armstrong gun … the ...