Martin J. Crawford
(1820-1883)
On the adjoining lot stood the large columned home of Martin Jenkins Crawford, Lawyer, Member of the General Assembly of Georgia, twice Judge of the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit, Member United States Congress, and of the provisional Confederate States Congress. He was one of the three Confederate Peace Commissioners to President Lincoln. Upon the outbreak of the war he raised the Third Georgia Cavalry regiment of which he was Colonel.
Col. Crawford died while a member of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Marker is on 13th Street 0 miles east of 2nd Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
