- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Ray's Place - Now Raytown historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Taliaferro County
Cities and towns--Georgia--Raytown - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Taliaferro County, Raytown, 33.5693, -82.75236
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Crossroads in Raytown
Text of marker: "RAY'S PLACE - NOW RAYTOWN. Ray's Place, oldest community in Taliaferro County, was, in the late 1790s and early 1800s, a recreation center on Little River for the "livelier social set" of Washington. It was named for a Ray family from New York who lived in Washington for several years. In later years the famed Wrightsboro Road came through Raytown and the stage road from Double Wells (Barnett) to Washington. The parents and grandparents of Jefferson Davis owned plantations near Raytown in the early 1800s. Mrs. Davis, fleeing Federal forces in 1865, spent a night in Raytown. 131-8 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_rays-place-now-raytown
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_rays-place-now-raytown
- 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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