Bigelow's Desperate Stand

July 2, 1863 - Second Day

"...horses were plunging and laying all around.... The enemy were yelling like demons, yet my men kept up a rapid fire...."

Capt. John Bigelow, U.S.A.

9th Massachusetts Artillery

Here at the farm of Abraham Trostle on the afternoon ...

Bridgeport

In 1852 Andrew Church established a trading post where a road from the San Joaquin Valley, crossed the Agua Fria Creek. The site, known as Bridgeport, was on the Fremont Grant, about five miles south of Aqua Fria, first county ...

Bethlehem United Methodist Church

Oldest Methodist Church in Barrow County, organized in the 1780’s. Services first held two miles N.E. in log house. In 1790 a church was built nearby. The present site was originally a camp ground with an arbor, tents & cottages ...

Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

Randolph's Battery

(Front):Battery E

Randolph's Battery

1. Lt. J.K. Bucklyn, Commanding.

(Right):3 men killed

2 officers

and

24 men

wounded

(Right):Battery E

1st. R.I. L.A.

Artillery

Brigade

3rd Corps

July 2, 1863.

Marker is on Emmitsburg Road (Business U.S. 15), on the right when traveling north.

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Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart

[Monument's east side]:

Commanding Cavalry Corps

Army Northern Virginia

Confederate States of America

***

This statue erected by his comrades

and the City of Richmond

A.D. 1906

[Monument's south side]:

“Tell Gen. Stuart to act on his own judgement and do what he thinks best,

I have implicit confidence in ...

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

Erected in memory of the soldiers of the Confederacy, who gave their lives for the cause at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry, April 30, 1864, Dedicated September 19, 1928, by the James F. Fagan and Jenkins Ferry Chapters of the ...

Beaulieu Plantation

Granted 1739

to

William Stephens

Secretary

Colony Of Georgia

1737 - 1740

President

1743 - 1751

Here in 1779 under

Count D'Estaing the

French landed to join

the Americans under

General Lincoln in

the seige Of Savannah

W.P.A. 1936. D.A.R. S.R.

Marker is on Beaulieu Avenue near Butler Street.

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Batteries E & G First U.S. Artillery

Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Batteries E & G First U.S. Artillery

Four 12 pounders

Captain Alanson M. Randol Commanding

July 1 & 2 With First Brigade Second Cavalry Division. Not engaged.

July 3 One section under ...

Jeruel Academy/Union Baptist Institute

This academy was founded in 1881 at Landrum Chapel (Ebenezer Baptist Church, West) by the Rev. Collins Henry Lyons. In 1886 a new facility was constructed at this site, now on the University of Georgia campus. Here black youth were ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

Eminent artist -- naturalist.

Described numerous species of

flora including Franklinia.

Explored local area in 1773.

Marker is on the State Botannical Garden entrance road 0.2 miles west of S. Milledge Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

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