- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Gov. Troup's Tomb historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Treutlen County
Memorials--Georgia--Treutlen County
Governors--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Treutlen County, Lothair, 32.35517, -82.65541
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Paved county road about one-quarter mile from the end of Spur Ga. 199 west of Lothair
Text of marker: "GOV. TROUP'S TOMB. George Michael Troup, twice Governor of Georgia, lies buried here beside his brother. He died Apr. 28, 1856 while visiting here at Rosemont, one of his many plantations. Troup was born Sept. 8, 1780, at McIntosh's Bluff on the Tombigbee R. in a part of Ga. that is now Ala. Educated at Princeton he was a member of the bar, legislator, congressman, U.S. senator and governor. Retiring from public life in 1833 he was that year nominated for the Presidency by a Ga. States Rights convention. His home plantation "Valdosta" was near Dublin. 140-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_gov.-troups-tomb
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_gov-6
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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