- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- The Great Seal of Georgia historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Baldwin County
Seals (Numismatics)--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: In front of the old Baldwin County Courthouse in Milledgeville
Text of marker: "THE GREAT SEAL OF GEORGIA. When Federal troops entered Milledgeville in November, 1864, Georgia Secretary of State Nathan C. Barnett hid the Great Seal under a house and the legislative minutes in a pig pen 30 yards east of this point. Later they were returned to the Statehouse. Again in 1868 Governor Charles J. Jenkins (Governor, 1865-1868) removed the Great Seal to thwart state fund payments which had been ordered by the United States military authority which inaugurated Georgia's carpetbag regime. Federal General Meade replaced Governor Jenkins with United States General Thomas H. Ruger of Wisconsin (who served only part of the year 1868), the last of the Milledgeville governors. With the return of home rule in 1872 the Great Seal was returned to the new capitol in Atlanta. 005-20 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1960" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_great-seal-of-georgia
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_great-seal-of-georgia
- 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:
-
