Roosevelt’s Barnesville Speech

On August 11, 1938, as many as 50,000 people gathered in the stadium of Gordon Military College for an address by President Franklin Roosevelt dedicating the Lamar Electric Cooperative, a project of the New Deal's Rural Electrification Administration (REA). As ...

Barnesville War Memorial

Lest We Forget Those Who

Gave Their All For Our Country

Our Honored W.W. I K.I.A.

Wm. S. Bowen • Mansel E. Kaiser • George R. Higgins

Our Honored W.W. II K.I.A.

Edmund Bradfield • Wayne A. Thomas

Wm. O. Cordner • Lewis Wade

Paul Orwig • ...

Barnesville Veterans Memorial

To honor those

who have served

to preserve this nation

Marker is at the intersection of Arch Street and Main Street (Ohio Route 147), on the right when traveling north on Arch Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Barnesville Blues

Co. B – 121st Infantry

Barnesville, Georgia

“Old Gray Bonnet”

This memorial is dedicated to all who served with the Barnesville Blues. This company served actively as a part of Georgia’s National Guard in four wars. They fought numerous long, hard, and decisive ...

Federals at Barnesville

As Wilson’s Federal Cavalry moved toward Macon, near this spot on Wednesday, April 19, 1865, some of them attacked a small Confederate force, “The Dixie Rangers.” Greatly outnumbered, “The Rangers” fought with gallantry, gradually withdrawing from the field. A detachment ...

Barnesville

“Before night our town changed hands five times!”

On the evening of September 5, 1862, Gen. Wade Hampton’s and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s Confederate cavalry brigades bivouacked around Barnesville. They rode the next day to their base camp at Urbana, leaving the ...

Barnesville

“Before night our town changed hands five times!”

On the evening of September 5, 1862, Gen. Wade Hampton’s and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s Confederate cavalry brigades bivouacked around Barnesville. They rode the next day to their base camp at Urbana, leaving the ...

Governor Wilson Shannon 1802-1877 / Barnesville’s Shannon Family

Governor Wilson Shannon (1802–1877),

Ohio, first native-born governor, Wilson Shannon was born in February 1802 in the Mt. Olivet area near Barnesville. After attending Ohio University and studying law in Kentucky, he returned to Belmont County to practice and was elected ...