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Roughly bounded by Walker Street, 12th Street, Waters Street, Corker Row, 4th Street, and Jones Avenue 33°05′28″N 82°01′00″W / 33.0911°N 82.0167°W / 33.0911; -82.0167 ( Waynesboro Historic
Plantation house that Margaret Mitchell based Tara off of in Gone With the Wind. 75000575 Mulberry Grove Plantation: July 17, 1975 Port Wentworth: Chatham Former plantation of Nathanael Greene. Location where Eli Whitney conceived the cotton gin: 80000979 Sapp Plantation: Sardis Burke County Wade Plantation: Screven Grove Point Plantation ...
October 19, 1790 (aged 66) Burke County, Georgia: Political party: Pro-Administration: Spouse(s) Abigail Burr (1752-1753) and Mary Osborn (1757-1790) Children: Isaac Hall (1753-1794) and John Lyman Hall: Residence: America: Profession: Clergyman Medical Doctor Member Continental Congress Governor founder of University of Georgia: Signature
Burke County is a county located along the eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia in the Piedmont. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,596. [2] The county seat is Waynesboro. [3] Burke County is part of the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metropolitan statistical area.
Roughly centered on Cove Rd. and bounded by Crescent, Pearl, & 6th Sts. and the Central of Georgia RR 34°52′02″N 85°17′39″W / 34.867351°N 85.294265°W / 34.867351; -85.294265 ( Chickamauga Historic
Waynesboro is located in Burke County, one of the eight original counties of Georgia. The city was named after General Anthony Wayne, whose daring efforts during the Revolutionary War earned him the nickname "Mad Anthony Wayne". [8] Although European Americans lived in the area before the Revolutionary War, the town was not laid out until 1783.
A cotton-growing magnate, John Byne Walker was one of the wealthiest men in Morgan County at the time of the Civil War, [9] owning over 200 slaves and some 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of land in Morgan County, Georgia and 6,000 in Wharton County, Texas, to which he traveled yearly between 1846 and 1862. [5]
Baker County Courthouse: Baker County Courthouse: September 18, 1980 : Courthouse Sq. Newton: 2: Notchaway Baptist Church and Cemetery: Notchaway Baptist Church and Cemetery: May 25, 2001 : Jct. of GA 91 and GA 253