The March to the Sea

Historical marker location:

Lithonia, Georgia

( Marker is on Covington Highway (U.S. 278) 0.1 miles east of Panola Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1957

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.