Georgia's Landmarks Memorials and Legends: Volume 2, Part 1
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Georgia's Landmarks Memorials and Legends: Volume 2, Part 1

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Georgia's Landmarks Memorials and Legends: Volume 2, Part 1

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The second volume of a four-year endeavor to catalog the history of The Peach State originally published in the early twentieth century. This part of Lucian Knight's multivolume work includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, the first steamboat patent, the legend of "Lover's Leap, " a list of governors, and historic county seats, chief towns, and noted localities of the following counties: Appling, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Campbell.

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Information

Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781589800007
eBook ISBN
9781455604807
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. PREFACE
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. SECTION I: Under the code Duello.
  5. SECTION II: Landmarks and Memorials
  6. CHAPTER I: Hernando De Soto: Memorials of his March through Georgia in 1540
  7. CHAPTER II: "Home, Sweet Home:" John Howard Payne's Georgia Sweetheart and Imprisonment
  8. CHAPTER III: Lost for 114 Years: the Mystery of General Greene's Place of Entombment
  9. CHAPTER IV: Georgia's Great Seals
  10. CHAPTER V: Georgia Issues the First Patent for a Steamboat
  11. CHAPTER VI: President Washington's Georgia Visit: the Diary of His Trip
  12. CHAPTER VII: General Elijah Clarke's Trans-Oconee Republic
  13. CHAPTER VIII: Fannin at Goliad: Story of the Brutal Massacre of 1836
  14. CHAPTER IX: William H. Seward: A Georgia School-Master
  15. CHAPTER X: Crawford W. Long: The Discoverer of Anesthesia
  16. CHAPTER XI: John Clark: His Grave Overlooking St. Andrew's Bay on the Gulf of Mexico
  17. CHAPTER XII: Liberty Hall: The Historic Home of the Illustrious Confederate Vice-President
  18. CHAPTER XIII: The Last Order of the Confederate Government
  19. CHAPTER XIV: Memorial Day: Its True History
  20. CHAPTER XV: Thomas Holley Chivers: An Erratic Genius
  21. CHAPTER XVI: Georgia's First Governor: His Mysterious Death
  22. CHAPTER XVII: Two Pioneer Baptists: The Story of the Mercers
  23. CHAPTER XVIII: Ebenezer: The Story of the Salzburgers
  24. CHAPTER XIX: Sunbury: An Extinct Metropolis
  25. CHAPTER XX: Fort Morris: The Last to Lower the Colonial Flag
  26. CHAPTER XXI: New Inverness: The Story of the Scotch Highlanders
  27. CHAPTER XXII: The Acadians in Georgia
  28. CHAPTER XXIII: The Moravians in Georgia
  29. CHAPTER XXIV: Roswell: The Home of Mr. Roosevelt's Mother
  30. CHAPTER XXV: Dr. Francis R. Goulding: The Author of "The Young Marooners"
  31. CHAPTER XXVI: Who Invented the Sewing Machine?
  32. CHAPTER XXVII: "The Savannah:" Her Maiden Trip Across the Atlantic in 1819
  33. CHAPTER XXVIII: How the "General" Was Captured: The Story of the Famous Andrews' Raid
  34. CHAPTER XXIX: How Mr. Bryan Secured His Nomination in 1896
  35. CHAPTER XXX: The Wren's Nest: Its Memories of Joel Chandler Harris
  36. CHAPTER XXXI: Stone Mountain: A Monolith of Prehistoric Times
  37. CHAPTER XXXII: The Old Field School
  38. CHAPTER XXXIII: Georgia's Early Masonic History: An Important Volume Discovered.
  39. CHAPTER XXXIV: Mrs. Wilson Comes Home
  40. SECTION III: Historic Church-Yards and Burial Grounds
  41. SECTION IV: Myths and Legends of the Indians
  42. SECTION V: Tales of the Revolutionary Camp-Fires
  43. SECTION VI: Georgia Miscellanies
  44. SECTION VII: Historic County Seats, Chief Towns and Noted Localities