Byron Herbert Reece

Historical marker location:

Blairsville, Georgia

( Marker is on Gainesville Highway (U.S. 19/129) 0.8 miles north of Georgia Route 180, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2006

(1917-1958).

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.