William Bartram Trail

Historical marker location:

Thomson, Georgia

( Marker is on Wrightsboro/Stagecoach Road, 4 miles west of U.S. 78, on the left when traveling west.)

Traced 1773-1777. Deep South Region.

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.