Robert Hunt

1606 - 1907

To the glory of God and in memory of the Reverend Robert Hunt, Presbyter. appointed by the Church of England, minister of the colony which established the English Church and English civilization at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, his ...

Chickasawhatchee Primitive Baptist Church

This church, organized September 28, 1858, with two men and five women as charter members, is the oldest church in Terrell County on its original site. Three acres of land were given by Haley Johnson of Dawson. Later, Sharpe and ...

Point of Beginning

In October, 1786, the General Assembly approved that 45 acres of land belonging to John Lynch be laid off in half-acre lots to establish a town by the name of Lynchburg. The original trustees Charles Brooks, Jesse Burton, John Callaway, ...

Battle of West Point

April 16, 1865

800 yds. Northwest is the site of Fort Tyler ~ last Confederate fort to fall in the War Between the States. A force of Union cavalry captured Fort Tyler after an 8 hour siege.

19 Confederate engines and ...

“For God’s Sake, Save That Battery” The 38th Indiana at Perryvil

Perryville

The 436 members of the 38th Indiana Infantry Regiment deployed here, in a cut cornfield, next to the 10th Wisconsin Infantry. These men supported Captain Peter Simonson’s six cannon, which were located to your right. It was a crucial position; ...

Bennefeld VFW Post 7479 War Memorial

To the loving memory

of those men and women

who gave their lives in all

past wars and to all

veterans who served our

great country, we dedicate

this memorial as a symbol

of your sacrifices.

April 15, 1995

Marker is on Prairie Street near Ozark Street, on the ...

Gamble's Station

A mile north, on Little River, Josias Gamble built a fort in 1740. Gov. William Blount came here in 1790, to pacify and disperse a gathering of settlers about to attack the Indians to recover stolen horses. The fort was ...

Beaufort College

(Text front)

Beaufort College, a college preparatory academy founded in 1795, occupied this Greek Revival building from 1852 to 1861. The school opened in 1084 at Bay and Church Sts. but closed in 1817 after a yellow fever epidemic, reopening in ...

Barnwell County Courthouse

[Marker Front]:

Barnwell County, originally Winton County,

was created out of Orangeburgh District

in 1785. Renamed Barnwell District in 1798

for John Barnwell (1748-1800), a S.C. militia

officer in the Revolution and afterwards,

it became Barnwell County in 1868. The

first courthouse was built at Boiling Springs

in ...

Gen. Patrick Cleburne Camp, S.C.V.

General Patrick Cleburne Camp, S.C.V., the only Camp east of the Mississippi to be named for a General from the west of that river, was organized May 3, 1956, with members from several counties in Southwest Georgia.

General Patrick Ronayne ...