3rd Confederate Georgia Cavalry

Historical marker location:

Chickamauga, Georgia

( Marker is on Cove Road (Georgia Route 341) south of Gordon Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1898

Harrison's Brigade. Wharton's Division.

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.