The Kewaunee County Piers

This was once the site of a small, bustling, waterfront community typical of many others in Kewaunee County. By the mid-1800's, as large numbers of settlers moved into the rural areas of the newly formed county, efficient transportation became a ...

Capt. William E. Shannon

First Alcade of Coloma

Delegate from this area to First

State Constitutional Convention Convention

at Monterey. September 1849

Marker can be reached from Highway 49.

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Van’s Creek Baptist Church

Van’s Creek Baptist Church, established early in 1785 by Rev. Dozier Thornton, Revolutionary soldier and Virginian, was named for an Indian convert. David Vann, famed Chief of the Cherokees. Though the 6th Baptist church in Georgia, it is the oldest ...

The Assassination Of Rep. Alfred Rush

[Front]

Alfred Rush (d. 1876), a black state representative for two terms during Reconstruction, was assassinated near here, about 1/2 mi. from his home, on May 13, 1876. Rush, who represented what was then Darlington County in the S.C. House ...

Landing Ship Tanks (LST's) Memorial

United States Amphibious Forces

In Remembrance of those who served in the United States Amphibious Forces on board Landing Ship Tanks (LST's).

Marker can be reached from Blue Star Highway 0.4 miles south of Main Street (U.S. 136).

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Grand Army of the Republic Hall

This structure, built in 1822, served as the Methodist Church for nearly 50 years and still retains a portion of the original burial ground at the rear. After the battle, wounded were cared for here by the Catholic Sisters of ...

Confederate Camp Milner

Most Georgia troops for the Confederate Army were mobilized in Griffin. Camp Milner, the Cavalry Camp, was named for Ben Milner, prominent Spalding County man who gave financial aid in equipping companies from his county. Camp Stephens, the Infantry Camp, ...

Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery / Clarke Ceme

Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery

This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation. Roseville, established about 1771 by the Dewitt family, was later owned by the Brockinton, Bacot, and Clarke families from the 1820s through the Civil War. ...

Lutheran Publication Society

To commemorate

the founding

of the

Lutheran

Publication Society

at a meeting held in

Trinity

Lutheran Church

May 1st, 1855

The Board of Publication

of the

United Lutheran Church in America

1955

Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue ...

Ney School / Back Swamp School

Ney School

About 1843 Robert Rogers (1808-1882), a planter at "Blooming Grove" in the Back Swamp community of what was then Darlington District, built a plantation schoolhouse and hired Peter Stuart Ney (d. 1846) to teach his children. The original ...