William Augustus Bootle

Historical marker location:

475 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia

( Marker is on Mulberry Street (Georgia Route 49) west of 3rd Street Lane, on the right when traveling west.)

Federal Building and United States Courthouse. Dedicated June 29, 1998.

The state of Georgia was home to the first American-born saint, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Sacred Heart Orphanage in Savannah in 1900.