William Bartram

Philadelphia naturalist, author, exploring this area, met a Cherokee band led by their chief, Atakullakulla, in May 1776, near this spot.

Marker is on U.S. 74, on the right when traveling east.

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William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

During his 1775 visit, Bartram noted this area “exhibited a delightful diversified rural scene and promises a happy, fruitful, and salubrious region.”

Marker is on Colonial Station Drive 0 miles south of Columbus Road, on the right when traveling south. ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

Blue Sink

Visited by William Bartram, America's first naturalist, in 1774.

Erected by Newberry Garden Club in cooperation with Dist. V. FFGC National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.

Fla. Dept. of Transportation

Marker is on ...

William Bartram's Plantation

In 1766 on the banks of the St. Johns River at Little Florence Cove, William Bartram attempted to farm a 500-acre land grant. Bartram had spent much of the previous year exploring the new British Colony of East Florida with ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

In 1774, William Bartram visited Salt Springs, his six-mile springs, and proclaimed it a "Paradise of Fish"

Marker is on State Highway 19 ¼ mile south of County Road 316 (County Road 316), on the right ...

William Bartram Trail

1739 ~ 1823

The great Quaker naturalist of Philadelphia made a long journey through the southeastern states in the 1770's collecting botanical specimens. In May, 1774, he visited the Seminole Chief, Cowkeeper, at the Indian village of Cuscowilla located near ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

1773 the Treaty of Augusta

Bartram visited Wrightsborough

He described the view of high hills

and rich vales. He took on supplies.

Marker is on Wrightsboro/Stagecoach Road 4 miles west of U.S. 78, on the left when traveling west.

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William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

In 1775 during the travels of botanist William Bartram he first discovered golden St. John’s wort (his Hypericum aureum) near this site on Patsiliga Creek

Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Route 137 and Fickling Mill Road, on the ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

William Bartram Visits Augusta

1773 for Indian Ceded Lands Treaty.

1775 said . . . ."Augusta would become

the Metropolis of Georgia"

Marker can be reached from 8th Street.

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William Bartram Visited Augusta, 1773.

"The village of Augusta." wrote the celebrated American naturalist and botanist of his visits in 1765 and 1773, "is situated on a rich and fertile plain of the Savanna River; the buildings are near its banks and extend two miles. ...