Button Gwinnett

In this, Saint John`s Parish, (now Liberty County), lived Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, Speaker of the Assembly, and President of the Executive Council. He also was a member of the Convention ...

Button Gwinnett

Button Gwinnett, for whom this county was named, was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1735, the son of a Church of England minister. He worked in the store of his father-in-law in Dexter for two years, then as an importer ...

In Memory of Button Gwinnett and Dr. Lyman Hall

Members of the Midway Colony Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Governors of Georgia

Marker can be reached from Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) ½ mile north of East Oglethorpe Highway (U.S. 84), on the right when traveling north.

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