- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Joshua Lee historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Lanier County
Memorials--Georgia--Lakeland - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Lanier County, Lakeland, 31.04104, -83.07515
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Entrance to Banks Lake Outpost at 307 W. Highway 122, Lakeland
text of marker: "JOSHUA LEE (1782-1855). Joshua Lee built the first grist mill on this location in c.1830 in what was Lowndes County. He owned five and one half Land lots (2.690 acres) which were not yet free of Indians. He built a low level dam across a stream flowing through his property. The water flooded the land around the ancient cypress trees where a natural pocosin existed probably as a result of tidal action of the ocean thousands of years ago. His mill afforded the farmers a place to grind their grain and gin their cotton without going a great distance. The Mill was located on the old stagecoach road from Waycross to Thomasville. Farmers and merchants who gathered at this location established it as a trade center. A post office in 1838 established the town of Alapaha, but changed to Milltown in 1857 and later to Lakeland in 1925. The legacy of this property is the remembrance of the pioneers who came to this land and created a community, and of their descendants who wish to protect the land. This marker sponsored by The National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century John Howell Sr Chapter 2004 and placed by the descendants of the Lee family." - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_joshua-lee
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_joshua-lee
- 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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