Historical Marker
Wheat House
Historical marker location:
2355 Etheridge Road, Jefferson, Georgia
( Marker can be reached from Etheridge Road just south of Johnson Mill Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm.
Georgia was the last of the original 13 colonies to be established. It was founded in 1732, over 100 years after the first English settlement in Virginia.