National Historic Landmark-Waynesborough

National Historic Landmark-Waynesborough

From his birth until 1791, this was the residence of Anthony Wayne (1745-1796), American general.

The large stone house was originally constructed in 1724 by his grandfather and namesake, Anthony Wayne.

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The Cavalry Actions at Waynesboro

Late on Nov. 26, 1864, elements of the 3rd Cavalry Division [USA], Brig. Gen. J.L. Kilpatrick, USA, of Gen. Sherman`s army, reached the railroad bridge north of Waynesboro and partially burned it before being driven off by troops of the ...

Waynesborough

On July 31, 1783, an Act was passed by the General Assembly meeting in Augusta to lay out a town, Waynesborough, on reserved or private land. Commissioners named (Thomas Lewis, Sr., Thomas Lewis, Jr., John Duhart, Edward Telfair, John Jones) ...

Incident at Waynesboro

A Case of Friendly Fire

In November 1863, military governor Andrew Johnson ordered Union Maj. John Murphy, 5th Tennessee Cavalry, to take charges of two companies of Union Guards in Nashville. These 200 newly mustered men were from Wayne County ...

Waynesboro Operation Enduring Freedom & Operation Iraqi Freedom

In honor of those who served in

Operation Enduring Freedom and

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Erected by th Family Readiness

Group of Detachment 1 Battery B

2nd Battalion 115th Field Artillery

Waynesboro, Tennessee

Gary Allen Anderson Jr. •

Daniel Baskins •

Waynesboro

Settlers began to arrive to present day Augusta County in the 1730s and by the Revolutionary War a small hamlet existed here. By 1797, it was known as Waynesborough, for Revolutionary War hero Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne. It became a ...

Waynesboro

Here, on one of the first roads west of the Blue Ridge, a hamlet stood in colonial times. The Walker exploring expedition started from this vicinity in 1748. Here, in June, 1781, the Augusta militia assembled to join Lafayette in ...