- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- "July" 1858 The Original July Foxhound historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Hancock County
Foxhounds--Georgia--Hancock County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hancock County, Sparta, 33.2757, -82.97626
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Ga. 16 N.W. of Sparta at Mile Marker 5 (at Oakland Plantation)
Text of marker: ""July" 1858 The Original July Foxhound. In July 1858 an Irish Foxhound arrived in Georgia as a gift from the noted hunter, Nimrod Gosnell of Roxbury Mills, Maryland, to Colonel Miles G. Harris of Hancock County. The male puppy was named "July". Col. Harris invited fox hunters for miles around to join him on a fox hunt during October 1859. They brought their choicest runners with them, but they were no match for "July's" superior performance in the hunting field chasing red foxes. Hunters from surrounding counties and in some cases adjacent states brought their best bitches to be bred to "July". Thus began the strain of hounds known by the name of its progenitor "July". Erected by lovers of July Hounds" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_july-1858-the-original-july-foxhound
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_july-1858-the-original-july-foxhound
- 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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