Confederate Camp Milner

Historical marker location:

Griffin, Georgia

( Marker is on Pimento Avenue, 0 miles south of Camp Northen Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1956

Georgia was the site of the first American gold rush, but it was also the site of the first American oil rush. In 1905, oil was discovered in Bibb County, and the state's oil industry began to grow rapidly.