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Steam Locomotive

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McDonough, Georgia.
This H.K. Porter Steam Engine, Tank 0-4-0 locomotive is similar to the one involved in the Camp Creek Wreck of 1900 in McDonough. Coincidentally, the locomotive's number is the same as that of the Camp Creek engine: the "Old . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McDonough Public Library

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McDonough, Georgia.
This building served as McDonough's library from 1953 until the 1970s. George Alexander, president of Planter's Warehouse and Lumber Company, donated one of their storage buildings in order to get a city library started. It . . .

(Notable Buildings • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ola Schoolhouse

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McDonough, Georgia.
Prior to the 1950s, the "one room schoolhouse" was a standard feature in rural America. All students, regardless of age or grade, were frequently taught in one large classroom. This building served as the Ola Elementary . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Detached Cookhouse

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McDonough, Georgia.
Cookhouses were often built as separate structures from the main family dwelling prior to the 1930's. This arrangement was due to the fire hazard posed by kitchens of that day. If fire was to break out in the kitchen, it . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clements Log Cabin

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McDonough, Georgia.
Turner Hunt Clements, an early settler, built this log cabin in the 1820's. It originally stood on Georgia Highway 20, northeast of McDonough and is one of the oldest buildings in Henry County. The last to live in this cabin . . .

(Notable Buildings • Antebellum South, US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lanes's Place

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McDonough, Georgia.
Lane's country store was built in 1921 and originally stood at the intersection of Rock Quarry Road and Highway 42 in Stockbridge. It served officially as the company store for the quarry, but unofficially it was the social . . .

(Notable Buildings • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Helm's Brigade

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near Chickamauga, Georgia.
Helm's Brigade. Breckinridge's Division, Hill's Corps. Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm. Colonel Joseph H. Lewis. September 19, 1863, 9 a.m. 41st Alabama, - Colonel Martin L. Stansel. 2nd Kentucky, - Lieutenant Colonel . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Oak Ridge Cemetery

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Macon, Georgia.
Oak Ridge Cemetery, also a part of Rose Hill Cemetery, was set aside for Negro slave burials of many prominent Macon families. Many affluent descendants of slaves such as doctors, teachers, and businessmen are also buried here.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Liddell's Brigade

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Liddell's Brigade Liddell's Division, Walker's Corps. Colonel Daniel C. Govan. September 19, 1863, 3 p.m. 2nd and 5th Arkansas, - Lieutenant Colonel Reuben E. Harvey. 2nd and 5th Arkansas, - Captain A. T. Meek 5th and 13th . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

General Ignacio López Rayón

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, Mexico.
Homenaje del Glorioso Pueblo de Tlalpujahua de Rayón, Michoácan "al General y Licenciado Ignacio López Rayón" con motivo que en el año 2012, se conmemoran el CCXXXIX aniversario de su natalicio, el Bicentenario de sus . . .

(Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baldwin County Veterans Memorial

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Milledgeville, Georgia.
Veterans Memorial "Flame of Freedom" Dedicated to the veterans of all wars from Milledgeville and Baldwin County on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the American Legion March 15, 1969 {Lower Prayer} "O, Lord, . . .

(War, World I • War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Battle of Griswoldville

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Griswoldville, Georgia.
Colonel Charles Colcock Jones, General Hardee's Chief of Artillery. summarized the Battle of Griswoldville: "This engagement, while it reflects great credit upon the gallantry of the Confederate and State forces engaged, was . . .

(War, US Civil • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Allen Strain

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Milledgeville, Georgia.
In grateful commemoration of the contribution to agriculture by Drs. Henry Dawson and Edwin Whitaker, Allen, Brothers, of Baldwin County, Georgia, in the discovery, improvement and dissemination, 1920-1940, of the Allen . . .

(Agriculture • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Antonio Rosales

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, Mexico.
Antonio Rosales General Republicano de origen zacatecano nacio en 1822 Literato y Poeta Lucho en Sinaloa por la libertad Fundo el Colegio Civil de Culiacan Murio combatiendo contra los Imperialistas en el año de 1866 . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memory of J. Rufus Kelly

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Gordon, Georgia.
Who defended Gordon GA. from the invasion of Sherman's Army Nov. 1864

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oak Ridge Cemetery

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Macon, Georgia.
Macon native Simri Rose, for whom Rose Hill Cemetery is named, established these grounds in 1840. Rose set aside ten acres of the property for slave owners to purchase and bury enslaved people and to bury city-owned enslaved . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memory of Emma Sansom

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Social Circle, Georgia.
In Memory Of Emma Sansom Heroine of the 60's

(War, US Civil • Heroes) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Madison Train Station

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Madison, Georgia.
Georgia Railroad chartered in 1833 reached Madison from Augusta in 1841. This, the first brick station in Georgia, was built by John B. Walker on land deeded by Adam B. Saffold. It was partially burned by federal troops Dec. . . .

(Notable Buildings • War, US Civil • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Commemoration of Marquis De Lafayette

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Milledgeville, Georgia.
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(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

4th Michigan Cavalry

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near Ringgold, Georgia.
Fourth Michigan Cavalry September 18th, 1863, 4 p.m.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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