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| The Georgia Historical Commission has covered the roadways of Georgia with bronze markers to note areas of our state's heritage. Current Historical Markers in Evans County Evans County (Marker located on the
Court House lawn in Claxton.) This County, created by Act of the
Legislature, August 11, 1914, is named for General Clement A. Evans,
soldier, lawyer, minister, statesman and author, who died in 1911. He
commanded Gordon's old division in the last charge of the Army at
Appomattox "with guns still hot from firing until the last
hour". Among the first county Officers were: Sheriff T. W. Rogers,
Ordinary W. H. Brewton, Clerk of Superior Court R. R. Tippins, A. V.
Smith, Tax Collector Daniel Sikes, Treasurer James S. Hogan and Surveyor
A. D. Eason. Old Sunbury Road (The road is marked twice
in Evans County. First, 2.4 miles east of Daisy on US highway 280 at site
known as Palatkee. The second marker is located in north Evans County on
GA highway 129 near the Tattnall County line.) The route intersecting here is the Old
Sunbury Road, one of the longest vehicular thoroughfares of
post-Revolutionary Georgia. It was laid out in the early 1790's from
Greenboro via today's Sparta, Swainsboro and Taylor's Creek to the Town of
Sunbury, a port on the Midway River in Liberty County. The trace was noted
for its elevated course and small number of stream crossings. When
Sunbury, once a leading Georgia port, declined in commercial importance,
the old route lost arterial significance. Many stretches of the early way,
however, remain in daily use. |
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Bellville Railroad Depot ( Located in front of the Bellville Railroad Depot.)
Renovated 1999-2000
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF --
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