Historical Markers in Chatham County, Georgia
105 East Oglethorpe Avenue
1812 Wesley Chapel
1873 Shell Magazine
1996 Olympic Yachting Cauldron
1st Lt. Harlan Leroy Cook
20th Fighter Gp
2nd Lt Louis Howard Bourgeault
2nd Strategic Air Depot
305th Bomb Group (H)
351st Bombardment Group (Heavy)
355th Fighter Group
356th Fighter Group
364th Fighter Group
36th BS RCM
379th Bombardment Group (H)
384th Bombardment Group
385th Bombardment Group (H)
392nd Bomb Group
398th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
4.5 Inch Blakely Rifle
445th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
446th Bomb Group
447th Bomb Group
448th Bomb Group
452nd Bomb Group
453rd Bomb Group
457th Bombardment Group (H)
466th Bomb Group (H)
479th Fighter Group
486th Bombardment Group (H)
487th Bomb Group
489th Bomb Group
491st Bombardment Group (H)
493rd Bomb Group
5,275 Shots & Shells in 30 Hours
55th Fighter Group
56th Fighter Group
7th Photo Recon Group
801st / 492nd Bomb Group
904th Signal Co. Depot AVN
93rd BG 482nd BG (P) 389th BG
93rd Bomb Group (H) In Memory Of
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy)
96th BG 339th BS - Shot Down
A Bustling Village
A Changing Landscape
A Crew Of Sky Queen
A Devastating Bombardment
A Storeroom By Any Other Name
A Turning Point In History
A. Douglass Strobhar
African American Monument
American Grand Prize Races
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemansonry
Andrew Bryan
Andrew Low House
Archibald Bulloch
Arky - Missy G Crew
Armstrong Junior College
Arts & Crafts Emporium
Atlantic Coastal Highway Through Georgia
Attack on British Lines
Augusta Road
B-24 Big Banner
B/G John S. Allard
Barnard House
Base Air Depot No. 2 Station 582 USAAF
Battery Hambright
Battery Hamilton
Battery Jones
Battle Between Confederate Gunboats and Union Field Artillery
Battle of Savannah
Beach Institute
Beaulieu Plantation
Bethesda
Big Duke Fire Alarm Bell Memorial
Birthplace of Eighth Air Force
Birthplace of Girl Scouting
Birthplace of John C. Frémont
Birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low
Birthplace of Juliette Low
Birthplace of the University Of Georgia
Black Thursday Oct 14 1943
Blacksmith Shop
Blitzing Betsy
Boeing B-47 Stratojet
Boiler Room
Brick Pillar
British Evacuation
Brooke Rifle
Burial Sites of Immortal 600
Butler's Bums
Button Gwinnett
Candler Hospital
Capt. Alfred L. Goodman
Capt. Denis N. Cottineau
Captain Charles Floyd
Captain Denis Cottineau de Kerloguen
Capture of Savannah
Capture of the USS "Water Witch"
Casimir Pulaski
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Central of Georgia
Central of Georgia
Central Of Georgia Railroad
Central Railroad & Bank Bldg.
Changing Landscape
Charity Hospital and Training School for Nurses
Charles Blaney Cluskey
Charles Pidcock
Chatham Artillery
Chatham Artillery's
Christ Church
Christ Church Parish House
Christmas in Savannah 1864
Cisterns
Cisterns of the Construction Village
City Plan of Savannah
Cockspur Island Lighthouse
Cockspur Island Lighthouse
Col. James S. McIntosh (1784-1847)
Col. John Jones
Col. John White
Col. Paul B. Jackson
Colonel Mordecai Sheftall
Colonial Dames House
Colonial Park
Colonial Town Gate
Colonials at Bonaventure
Colored Library Association of Savannah
Colored Shopmen's Locker & Lavatory
Comer House
Commercial Development of Western Savannah
Confederate Savannah
Congregation Mickve Israel
Conrad Aiken
Construction of Fort Jackson
Control Tower
Crew Of Fritz Blitz
Crew of Sugarfoot
Crossing the Savannah
CSS Georgia: The "Ladies' Gunboat"
De Lyon - De La Motta Cemetery
Destiny's Tot
Dinah-Mite
Dr. Noble W. Jones
Dr. Wm. A. Caruthers (1802-46)
Drop Table
Duellist's Grave
Edward Greene Malbone
Engineering Dry Land
Evacuation of Savannah
Federal Batteries on Tybee Island
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
Federal Siege Batteries
Final Resting Place
First African Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
First Girl Scout Headquarters in America
First Schools in West Savannah
First Synagogue in Georgia
Flame of Freedom / Relighting the Flame
Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
Florance Street School
Former Home of Henry R. Jackson
Forsyth Park
Fort at Play
Fort James Jackson
Fort Pulaski
Fort Screven
Fort Screven
Fort Screven Bakery
Francis Bartow
Fred Wessels, Senior
Freedom Ahead!
Garrison of Fort Jackson
Gen. James Jackson Home Site
Gen. Oglethorpe's Landing
Gen. Samuel Elbert (1740-1788)
General Casimir Pulaski Sergeant William Jasper
General Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806)
George Clymer
George Washington
Georgia Historical Society
German Memorial Fountain
German Volunteers
Great Indian Warrior / Trading Path
Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1820
Guarding the Door
Haitian Monument
Haven Home Industrial Training School
Henry Sims Morgan
Historic Ship Anchor
History of Emancipation:
History Of Emancipation: Special Field Orders No. 15
Home Of Genl Lachlan MacIntosh
Hot Shot Furnace
Houston Baptist Church
Houstoun Street/York Street
Hudson Hill
Hugh McCall (1767-1823)
Immortal Six Hundred
In Memory Of...Best Of Friends
Independent Presbyterian Church
Independent Presbyterian Church
Indian Trading Post: Home of Mary Musgrove
Ironclads and Gunboats of the Savannah River Squadron
Isidore De Lynch
Isle of Hope
Isle of Hope
Isle of Hope Methodist Church
Italians in Georgia's Genesis
James Edward Oglethorpe
James H. Doolittle
James Habersham
James Johnston
James Moore Wayne, 1790-1867
Jane Cuyler
Jasper Spring
Jepson House Education Center
Jewish Colonists
Joel Chandler Harris in Savannah
Joel Lane
John B. Hohenstein, Sr.
John Herndon Mercer 1909 - 1976
John Herndon Johnny Mercer
John Ryan's Excelsior Bottle Works
John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley Landing Site
John Wesley, 1703 - 1791
Johnny Mercer
Johnson Square
Jonathan Bryan
Joseph Brandt
Joseph Clay, Patriot
Joseph Habersham (1751-1815)
Joseph Vallence Bevan
Juliette Low
Key to the South
King Cotton
King's Bridge
Korean War
Lace's Aces
Lafayette McLaws
Landing of Oglethorpe and the Colonists
Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History
Laurel Grove South Cemetery
Lawton Memorial
Lazaretto
Lazy Daisy
Lewis Elton Lyle
Long Range Artillery Duel
Louis B. Toomer: Founder of Carver State Bank
Lowell Mason
Lt. Alpheus L. Kilmer Crew
Lt. Ambrose Gordon
Lt. Col John Harris Cruger
Lt. Colonel James A. Verinis
Lt. J E Bass Pilot and Crew
Lt. Joseph Lawton
Lucas Theatre
Lutheran Church Of The Ascension
Machine Shop
Madison Square
Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses
Major General Anthony Wayne
Major General Israel Putnam
Major John Berrien
Marist Place
Mary Musgrove
Massie Common School House
McDonnell F-4C Phantom
McKelvey-Powell Building
Members Of The Rüsselsheim Death March
Memorial To The American Revolution
Mercer Auto Camp
Merle C. Olmsted
Michael Dennison
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG- 17A
Mills Murphree
Moat Feeder Canal
Model 1859 Seacoast Carriage
Modena
Moravian Colonists In Savannah
Moses J. Jackson
Mother Mathilda Beasley, O.S.F.
Mulberry Grove Plantation
Nathanael Greene Monument
Nathanael Greene, Maj. Gen., Continental Army
Native Americans on the Georgia Coast
New World Medical Plants
Nicholsonboro
Nina Anderson Pape
Noble Jones Wormslow
North Pier Trail
Nuclear Ship Savannah
Ogeechee Road
Oglethorpe Bench
Oglethorpe's House
Old City Exchange Bell
Old Harbor Light
Old Jewish Burial Ground
Old Savannah Cotton Exchange
Old SorrelWeed House
Ol' Buddy
One Building - Many Stories
Original 1733 Burial Plot
Original Presbyterian Meeting House
Our Beloved Brothers
Owens-Thomas House
Pandora's Box
Parrott Rifle
Patsy Ann II
Peter Tondee
Pin Point Community
Planing Shed & Lumber Shed
Poetter Hall
Police Officers Monument
Police Station Steps
Pooler Station
Powder Magazine
Prepared for Battle
Printing Office of James Johnson
Pulaski Monument
Quest for Freedom
Rackheath Station 145
Recreation on Crawford Square
Red-hot Shot
Reinhardt M. King & Crew
Republican Blues
Revd A. Dale Umbreit
Richard Wall
Richardson-Owens-Thomas House
Richmond Baptist Church
River Street Inn
Robert Morris
Robert Sengstacke Abbott Boyhood Home
Roger Lacy (Lacey)
Roll of Honor
Roundhouse
Roundhouse Foremans Office
S.S. James Oglethorpe and the Battle of the Atlantic
Sailors' Burial Ground
Saint Phillips Monumental A.M.E. Church
Salzburger Monument of Reconciliation
Samuel Elbert
Sandfly
Savannah and the Slave Trade
Savannah Besieged
Savannah City Hall
Savannah High School
Savannah Historic District
Savannah in the American Revolution
Savannah Marine Korean War Monument
Savannah River Plantations
Savannah State College
Savannah Sugar Refinery Explosion
Savannah Theatre
Savannah Volunteer Guards
Savannah Waterfront
Savannah, Birthplace of Prince Hall Masonry in Georgia
Savannah-Ogeechee Canal
Savannah: Colonial Capital and Birthplace of
Savannah's Cobblestones
Savannah's Early Economy
Savannah's First Burying Ground
Savannah's Irish and Robert Emmet Park
Savannah's Liberty Ships and the Atlantic Bridge
Savannah's Marine Corps Memorial
Savannah's Wharves
Savannahs African-American Medical Pioneers
Second Baptist Church
Sergeant Jasper
Settlement of Savannah
Sheltering Crown
Sherman at Pooler
Sherman's Headquarters
Sherman's March To The Sea:
Shifting Shoreline
Shipping in the Port of Savannah
Ships That Carried the Name Savannah
Silence
Silver Chief
Site of Colonial Shipyard
Site of Filature
Sittin' Pretty
Smokestack
Soldier of Liberty
Solomon's Lodge No. 1
Solomon's Lodge No. 1 F. & A.M Savannah, Georgia
Solomon's Lodge No. 1 F.& A.M.
Southwest Bastion
Southwest Magazine
Spring Hill Redoubt
SS Savannah and SS John Randolph
St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church
St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Vincent's Academy
Stanley's Stalwarts
Store House
Storehouse
Swiss Tribute to WW II Combat Aircrewmen USAAF
Tabby, Coquina, Sandstone, and Stucco
Telfair Academy
Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences
Telfair Family Mansion
Telfair Hospital for Females
Tender Frame Shop & Master Mechanic's Office
The 15th Corps at the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal
The 339th FTR Grp, 8th A.F.
The Battle of Savannah
The Berrien House
The Beverly M. Whitehead Human Resources Building
The Breached Wall
The Breached Wall
The Demilune
The Duchess
The Fighting Scouts Of The 8th Air Force
The First Act of Alcohol Prohibition in America
The First African Baptist Church
The Georgia Civil Rights Trail: The Savannah Protest Movement
The Georgia Hussars
The Georgia Infirmary
The Georgia Medical Society
The Georgia Medical Society
The Georgia Volunteer
The Great Dane Dog
The History of Victor B. Jenkins Jr. Memorial Boys Club
The Invention of the Cotton Gin
The Liberty
The Lions Club of Savannah
The March to the Sea
The Napoleon 12-Pounder Field Gun Model 1857
The Old Pirates House
The Oliver Sturges House
The Parade
The Propeller Club of the Port of Savannah
The Public Oven and Home for Strangers
The Public Store
The Resistance
The Rotary Club of Savannah
The Savannah
The Savannah and Ogeechee Canal
The Trustees' Garden
The Tybrisa Pavilion II
The Waving Girl
The Weixler's
The "John Randolph"
This is Yamacraw Bluff
This Memorial Commemorates The Act Of...
Through the Thick Brick Wall
To Arms
To Honor Our Patriot Ancestors
To The War Time Mothers of America
Tomo-Chi-Chi's Grave
Tondee's Tavern
Tribute to Captain MacDonald Austin and Sargeant Jack Berlin
Trinity Methodist Church
Turntable
Tybee Island
Tybee Lighthouse
United States Customhouse
Vaulting Through Time
Vernonburg
Vietnam War Memorial
Walter Bernard Hill Hall
Warren A. Candler Hospital
Washington Fire Company
Washington's Southern Tour
Washingtons Southern Tour
Wesley Chapel Trinity / John Wesley's American Parish
Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church
Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church Centennial
White Bluff Meeting House
William Bartram Trail
William Scarbrough
William Scarbrough House
William Stephens
Workers' Garden
World's Top Mustang Ace
Wright Square
WW II Bombardiers
"A World Apart"
"Hard 17"
"Hell's Angels" - "Might in Flight" 303rd Bombardment Group (H)
"Jingle Bells"
"Nye's Annihilators"
"P T's Pirates"
"Stubborn Jean"
"Tyrants Fall In Every Foe Liberty's In Every Blow"
About Chatham County
Chatham County Timeline
Chatham County, Georgia has a rich history dating back to its establishment in 1777. The area was originally inhabited by Native American tribes such as the Yamacraws and the Creek Nation, who relied on the fertile land and abundant natural resources for their livelihoods. In 1733, General James Oglethorpe established the colony of Georgia and founded the city of Savannah, which would eventually become the county seat of Chatham County.
During the American Revolution, Chatham County played a significant role in the fight for independence, with the Battle of Savannah being a major conflict. British forces occupied the area, but were ultimately repelled by the American Revolutionary forces. The county continued to grow and develop in the following decades, becoming a major center of trade and commerce in the region due to its strategic location and access to the Savannah River.
In the 19th century, Chatham County saw a boom in industrial development, particularly in the fields of cotton production and shipping. Plantations were established, and slavery became a crucial part of the county's economy. The county also experienced the impact of the Civil War, with Union forces capturing Savannah in 1864 and effectively ending Confederate control in the region.
In the 20th century, Chatham County continued to evolve with significant advancements in infrastructure and technology. The establishment of Fort Stewart in the early 1940s brought a military presence to the county, which further stimulated economic growth. Today, Chatham County is a diverse and thriving area known for its historic charm, vibrant culture, and its contributions to Georgia's economy as a leading tourist destination and major transportation hub.
During the American Revolution, Chatham County played a significant role in the fight for independence, with the Battle of Savannah being a major conflict. British forces occupied the area, but were ultimately repelled by the American Revolutionary forces. The county continued to grow and develop in the following decades, becoming a major center of trade and commerce in the region due to its strategic location and access to the Savannah River.
In the 19th century, Chatham County saw a boom in industrial development, particularly in the fields of cotton production and shipping. Plantations were established, and slavery became a crucial part of the county's economy. The county also experienced the impact of the Civil War, with Union forces capturing Savannah in 1864 and effectively ending Confederate control in the region.
In the 20th century, Chatham County continued to evolve with significant advancements in infrastructure and technology. The establishment of Fort Stewart in the early 1940s brought a military presence to the county, which further stimulated economic growth. Today, Chatham County is a diverse and thriving area known for its historic charm, vibrant culture, and its contributions to Georgia's economy as a leading tourist destination and major transportation hub.
Chatham County Timeline
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Chatham County, Georgia.
- 1732: Chatham County is established as one of the original counties of the Province of Georgia.
- 1758: Savannah, the largest city in the county, is incorporated.
- 1779: During the American Revolutionary War, British forces capture Savannah.
- 1790: Chatham County's population reaches over 8,000.
- 1820: The First African Baptist Church is established in Savannah, becoming one of the first African-American churches in North America.
- 1850: Chatham County's population grows to over 20,000.
- 1864: Union forces capture Savannah during the American Civil War's "March to the Sea."
- 1909: The Georgia State Railroad Museum opens in Savannah.
- 1966: Chatham County becomes the first county in Georgia to adopt a consolidated city-county government system.
- 1996: The Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art opens, becoming the largest university art museum in the country.
- 2005: Hurricane Katrina causes significant damage to the county's coastal areas.