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Machinery From the C.S.S. Nashville

These portions of rotating machinery were removed, 1960, from the wreck of the Confederate blockade runner NASHVILLE, sunk in the Ogeechee River by shell fire from the U.S.S. MONTAUK in Feb.,...

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Hot Shot Furnace

The hot shot oven was used to heat cannonballs red hot to set fire to attacking wooden vessels. Georgia Historical Commission 1964 Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...

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Hardwicke

This site on the Great Ogeechee, 14 miles from the Atlantic, was selected in 1755 by Governor John Reynolds for the capital of Georgia. He named it for his kinsman, Lord High Chancellor of...

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Bryan County

Named for the honorable Jonothan Bryan, Esq., 1708- 1788, founder, father, and patriot of Georgia. Erected by Adam Brinson I, Chapter, National Society, Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth century....

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Fort Argyle

Near here, on the West bank of the Ogeechee River, Fort Argyle was built in 1733, to command one of the main passes by which enemy Indians had recently invaded South Carolina, and to...

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Dead Town of Hardwicke

>>--8 mi.---> On May 10, 1754, GEORGE TOWN was established at the "Elbow" of Great Ogeechee River, eight miles east. In February, 1755, Gov. Reynolds, dissatisfied with Savannah as a capital and...

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Sinking of the CSS 'Nashville (Rattlesnake)'

In July, 1862 the CSS ´NASHVILLE´, Capt. Baker, ran the Union blockade and entered Savannah via Wilmington River with a cargo of arms. Loaded with cotton for Europe, she attempted to escape...

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Fort McAllister-10 mi.

>>--10 mi.---> Situated at Genesis Point, 10 miles east on the right bank of the Great Ogeechee River below the "lost town" of Hardwick, this fort was the right of the exterior line designed for...

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Old River Road

The highway northward is the Old River road, one of the earliest routes west of the Ogeechee and a leading way from Savannah to Georgia´s western frontier. It followed an old Indian trial...

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Fort McAllister-4.5 mi.

East 4.5 miles, on Great Ogeechee River, Fort McAllister was built 1861-62 to guard the ´back door´ to Savannah. During 1862-63, it repulsed 7 attacks by armored vessels, some mounting...

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Fort McAllister The Naval Bombardments

On July 1st and 29th, 1862, the fort was shelled by Union gunboats and on Nov. 19th by the ironclad ´Wissahickon´ and two escort craft. Hit below the waterline, ´Wissahickon´ withdrew after firing...

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Fort McAllister The Assault From The Rear

Dec. 1864. Fort McAllister, built 1861-62 to close the Great Ogeechee River to enemy ships, mounted 11 seige [sic] guns, 12 field pieces and 1 10-inch mortar. Below it, piles and torpedoes...

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Kilpatrick on Bryan Neck

On Dec. 12, 1864, the 3rd Cavalry Division [US], Brig. Gen. J. L. Kilpatrick, USA, covering the right rear of Gen. Sherman´s army which was then closing in on Savannah, crossed the Great...

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Hazen's Division At The Canoochee River

On Dec. 6, 1864, The 15th Corps [US], Maj. Gen. P. J. Osterhaus, USA, the extreme right of Gen. Sherman´s army on its destructive March to the Sea, camped near Jenk´s Bridge, on Great...

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Sherman's Right Wing

On Dec. 6, 1864, the 15th Corps [US], the extreme right of Gen. Sherman´s army on its destructive March to the Sea, camped near Jenk´s Bridge on Great Ogeechee River, east of Blitchton. On...

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Jencks Bridge

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive Campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea....

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Bryan County

This County created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 19, 1793, is named for Jonathan Bryan, Revolutionary patriot and member of the Executive Council in 1777. The ‘lost town´ of Hardwick on the...

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Civil War Slave Conspiracy

In August 1864, during the American Civil War, four men were executed in Brooks County, Georgia, for conspiring to plot a slave insurrection. The conspirators-led by a local white man,...

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Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church about 4 miles Southwest of here, was constituted November 29, 1834. The charter members included: William T. Rushing, his wife, Belinda; Asa Geiger, his...

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Bethel Primitive Baptist Church

Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be organized in the area of old Lowndes County, was constituted September 2, 1826. The organizing Presbytery were: Elders...

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