Historical Markers in Walker County, Georgia
101st Indiana Infantry
104th Illinois Infantry
10th Indiana Infantry
10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (US Volunteers)
10th Ohio Infantry
10th Tennessee Infantry
113th Ohio Infantry
115th Illinois Infantry
11th Indiana Battery
11th Michigan Infantry
11th Michigan Infantry
121st Ohio Infantry
123rd Illinois Infantry
124th Ohio Infantry
125th Ohio Infantry
125th Ohio Infantry
15th Pennsylvania Cavalry
15th South Carolina Infantry
17th Indiana Mounted Infantry
17th Kentucky Infantry (USA)
17th Ohio Infantry
17th Tennessee Infantry
18th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery
18th Indiana Battery
18th Ohio Infantry
19th Illinois Infantry
19th Ohio Infantry
1st Battalion, Ohio Sharpshooters
1st Ohio Cavalry
1st Wisconsin Cavalry
21st Michigan Infantry
21st Michigan Infantry Detachments
21st Ohio Infantry
22nd Illinois Infantry
22nd Indiana Infantry
22nd Michigan Infantry
23rd Tennessee Infantry
24th Wisconsin Infantry
25th Tennessee Infantry
25th Tennessee Regiment
26th Ohio Infantry
26th Tennessee Infantry / 1st Georgia Infantry Memorial
27th Illinois Infantry
27th U.S. Missouri Infantry
2nd & 3rd Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.)
2nd Georgia Cavalry
2nd Georgia Cavalry
2nd Indiana Cavalry
2nd Michigan Cavalry
2nd Michigan Cavalry
2nd Minnesota Infantry
2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment
2nd, 4th, 5th, & 6th Kentucky Cavalry (USA)
30th Tennessee Infantry
31st Ohio Infantry
35th Ohio Infantry
36th Illinois Infantry
36th Illinois Infantry
37th Indiana Infantry
39th Indiana Mounted Infantry
39th North Carolina Infantry
3rd Battalion South Carolina Infantry
3rd Confederate Georgia Cavalry
3rd Confederate Georgia Cavalry
3rd Georgia Cavalry
3rd Georgia Cavalry
3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment (US Volunteers)
3rd Ohio Cavalry
3rd South Carolina Infantry
3rd Tennessee Infantry
3rd Wisconsin Battery
3rd Wisconsin Battery
40th Ohio Infantry
41st Ohio Infantry
41st Tennessee Infantry
42nd Illinois Infantry
42nd Indiana Infantry
44th Indiana Infantry
44th Tennessee Infantry
4th Georgia Cavalry
4th Georgia Cavalry
4th Indiana Cavalry
4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (US Volunteers)
4th Michigan Cavalry
4th Ohio Cavalry
4th Tennessee Cavalry
50th Tennessee and 1st Tennessee Battalion Infantry
51st Illinois Infantry
58th Indiana Infantry
58th North Carolina Infantry
59th Illinois Infantry
5th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (CSA)
5th Wisconsin Battery
63rd Tennessee Infantry
64th Ohio Infantry
64th Ohio Infantry
65th Ohio Infantry
65th Ohio Infantry Regiment
68th Indiana Infantry
72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry
74th Illinois Infantry
74th Indiana Infantry
75th Illinois Infantry
78th Illinois Infantry
7th Indiana Battery
7th Indiana Battery
7th South Carolina Infantry
82nd Indiana Infantry
84th Indiana Infantry Regiment
86th Indiana Infantry
87th Indiana Infantry
88th Illinois Infantry
88th Illinois Infantry
88th Indiana Infantry
89th Ohio Infantry
8th Indiana Battery
8th Indiana Battery
8th South Carolina Infantry
8th Wisconsin Battery
8th Wisconsin Battery
96th Illinois Infantry
96th Illinois Infantry (Two Companies)
98th Illinois Infantry
98th Ohio Infantry
9th Indiana Infantry
9th Indiana Infantry
9th Kentucky Infantry (USA)
9th Michigan Infantry
9th Michigan Infantry
9th Ohio Infantry.
9th Pennsylvania Cavalry
African American Pioneers of the Marsh-Warthen-Clements House
Agony of the Wounded
American Indian Occupation of the Area
Anderson Campsite
Anderson's Brigade
Anderson's Brigade
Army of the Cumberland
Bailey's Crossroads
Barnes' Brigade
Battery B, 26th Pennsylvania
Battery C, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
Battery D, 1st Michigan Artillery Marker
Battery E, 9th Georgia Artillery Battalion
Battery G, 1st Missouri Light Artillery
Battery G, 1st Missouri Light Artillery
Battery G, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
Battery I, 4th U.S. Artillery.
Battery I, 4th U.S. Artillery.
Battery M, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
Battery M, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
Battery M, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
Battery M, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
Bird's Mill and Worthens' Gap
Bledsoe's C.S.A. Missouri Battery
Boynton Avenue
Bradley's Brigade
Bragg Avenue
Bragg's Headquarters Shell Monument
Brannan's Division
Brannan's Division
Buell's Brigade
Buell's Brigade
Camp George H. Thomas
Catletts Gap
Cavalry Corps.
Chattooga Academy
Chattooga Academy
Chattooga Academy - John B. Gordon Hall
Chestnut Flat
Chicago Board of Trade Battery
Chickamauga Prince Hall Lodge No. 221
Chief John Ross
Clark Lee: Chickamauga's Black Confederate Soldier
Close of the Battle
Confederate Square
Connell's Brigade
Contributions of Enslaved African to the Area
Cooper's Gap
Crawfish Spring
Crittenden Avenue
Crittenden's Corps at Lee and Gordon's Mills
Crittenden's Headquarters Shell Monument
Croxton's Brigade
Croxton's Brigade.
Cruft's Brigade
Cruft's Division
Davis' Cross Roads
Davis' Division
Davis' Division
Deas' Brigade
Deas' Brigade
Defense of Snodgrass Hill
Dent's Alabama Battery
Dent's Alabama Battery
Dick's Brigade
Dick's Brigade
Dick's Brigade
Do You See 7 States?
E. Kings Brigade (Detachment)
Field Headquarters Army of the Cumberland
Field Headquarters Army of the Cumberland.
Fort Cumming
Garrity's Alabama Battery
Geary's Division
General Joe Wheeler's Attack
General LaFayette
Gowans (Gowers) Ford And Widow Glenns Grave
Gracie's Brigade
Granger's Headquarters Shell Monument
Grangers Reserve Corps
Gregg's Brigade
Grose's Brigade
Harker's Brigade
Harker's Brigade
Harker's Brigade
Harker's Brigade
Hazen's Brigade
Hazen's Brigade
Helm's Brigade
Hindman's Division
Hindman's Division
Hindman's Division
Home of John Ross
Hood Avenue
Hood's Headquarters Shell Monument
Hooker's Column
Hospital, 1st Division, 14th Corps Union Army
Hospitals, Right Wing, Union Army.
Humphreys' Brigade
Humphrey's Brigade
Iowa State Monument
Ireland's Brigade
J. Beatty's Brigade
J. Beatty's Brigade
John B. Gordon Hall
John B. Hood
John Ross Home
John W. Bull Memorial
Johnson's Brigade
Johnson's Brigade
Johnson's Brigade
Johnson's Division - Hood's Corp
Kelly's Brigade
Kelly's Brigade.
Kershaw's Brigade
Kershaw's Brigade
Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade
La Fayette Presbyterian Church
Laiboldt's Brigade
Laiboldt's Brigade
Lee & Gordon's Mills
Lee and Gordon's Mill
Lee Avenue
Lieut. George W. Landrum
Longstreet Avenue
Longstreet's Corps
Longstreet's Headquarters Shell Monument
Lytle's Brigade
Lytle's Brigade
Lytle's Brigade
Manigault's Brigade
Manigault's Brigade
Manigault's South Carolina Brigade
Mark Thrash
Marsh-Warthen House
Martin Davis House and Farm
McFarland's Gap
McLaw's Division
McNair's Brigade
McNair's Brigade
McPhersons Army at Snake Creek Gap
Medal of Honor Heritage Trail
Mitchell's Brigade
Negley's Division
Negley's Division
Negley's Division
North and South Reunited
Old Federal Road
Old Tavern Road
Osterhaus' Division
Owing's Ford and Childress Plantation
Palmer's Division
Peavine Church
Post's Brigade
Preston's Division
Rock Springs Church
Rosecrans' Headquarters Shell Monument
Rosencrans Avenue
Rossville Gap
Rossville High Alumni Veteran's Memorial
Rossville Memorial Fountain
Rossville, McFarland House & Spring
S. Beatty's Brigade
S. Beatty's Brigade
S. Beatty's Brigade
S. Beatty's Brigade
See Seven States
Sheridan's Division
Ship's Gap
Sickness at Camp Thomas
Sirwell's Brigade
Sirwell's Brigade
Skirmish at McLemores Cove
Skirmish at McLemores Cove
Skirmish at McLemores Cove
Snake Creek Gap
South Carolina State Monument
Stanley's Brigade
Start of the Atlanta Campaign
Steedman's Division - Granger's Corps.
Stephens Gap
Stewart's Division
Tennessee C.S.A. Infantry
Tennessee U.S.A. Cavalry
The Army of Tennessee
The Battle of LaFayette
The Gordon - Lee Mansion
The Lynching of Henry White / Racial Injustice in America
The Marsh House
The Real Rock of Chickamauga
The Town of Lytle
The Xzanders G. McFarland House and McFarland Gap
Thomas Avenue
Thomas' Corps
Thomas' Headquarters Shell Monument
Thomas' Night March
To Missionary Ridge
To Our Confederate Soldiers
Trigg's Brigade
Trigg's Brigade
Trigg's Brigade
Twenty-First Army Corps
Van Cleve's Division
Van Cleve's Division
Van Derveer's Brigade
VanDerveers Brigade.
Villanow
Walker County
West Armuchee Valley
Wheeler's Cavalry Corps
Whitakers Brigade.
Widow Glenn's House Site
Wilder Avenue
Wilder Brigade Monument
Wilder's Brigade
Wilder's Brigade
Wilder´s Defense
William H. Lytle Memorial Shell Monument
William Little House
Williamson's Brigade
Woods' Brigade
Wood's Division
Wood's Division
Worthen's Gap
York's (Georgia) Battery
York's Georgia Battery
York's Georgia Battery
York's Georgia Battery.
About Walker County
Walker County Timeline
Walker County, Georgia has a rich and diverse history that spans several centuries. The area was originally inhabited by various Native American tribes, including the Cherokee and Creek peoples. European exploration of the region began in the 16th century, with Spanish conquistadors and French explorers venturing into the area. However, it wasn't until the 19th century that Walker County began to take shape as settlements were established.
In 1833, Walker County was officially formed, named after Major Freeman Walker, a Georgia legislator who played a crucial role in the state's early development. The county quickly grew, attracting settlers from across the country seeking opportunities in agriculture, mining, and industry. The discovery of iron ore and coal in the county led to the development of several mining towns, including Rossville and Chickamauga.
During the American Civil War, Walker County played a significant role, particularly during the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. The county served as a battleground between Union and Confederate forces and experienced significant damage and loss of life. After the war, Walker County began to rebuild and recover, focusing on agriculture and industrial development.
In the 20th century, Walker County continued to evolve and adapt to changing times. The county saw the rise of textile mills, which brought employment and economic growth to the region. However, like many other areas in the United States, Walker County faced challenges as industrial decline and globalization impacted its economy. Today, Walker County remains a hub for agriculture, tourism, and recreational activities, attracting visitors who appreciate its natural beauty and historic landmarks like the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
In 1833, Walker County was officially formed, named after Major Freeman Walker, a Georgia legislator who played a crucial role in the state's early development. The county quickly grew, attracting settlers from across the country seeking opportunities in agriculture, mining, and industry. The discovery of iron ore and coal in the county led to the development of several mining towns, including Rossville and Chickamauga.
During the American Civil War, Walker County played a significant role, particularly during the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. The county served as a battleground between Union and Confederate forces and experienced significant damage and loss of life. After the war, Walker County began to rebuild and recover, focusing on agriculture and industrial development.
In the 20th century, Walker County continued to evolve and adapt to changing times. The county saw the rise of textile mills, which brought employment and economic growth to the region. However, like many other areas in the United States, Walker County faced challenges as industrial decline and globalization impacted its economy. Today, Walker County remains a hub for agriculture, tourism, and recreational activities, attracting visitors who appreciate its natural beauty and historic landmarks like the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
Walker County Timeline
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Walker County, Georgia.
- 1833: Walker County was created and named after Senator Freeman Walker.
- 1838: The county seat was established in LaFayette.
- 1850: The population of Walker County reached 5,545.
- 1861-1865: Walker County residents served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
- 1886: The Chattanooga Southern Railroad was constructed, improving transportation in the county.
- 1932: The Walker County Mineral Museum opened in LaFayette.
- 1979: The city of Chickamauga was added to Walker County.
- 1985: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was established, preserving the area's historical significance.
- 2020: Walker County celebrates its 187th anniversary.