- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Wrightsboro historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--McDuffie County
Cities and towns--Georgia--Wrightsboro - Location:
- United States, Georgia, McDuffie County, Wrightsboro, 33.55041, -82.56902
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: At Wrightsboro on Wrightsboro/Stagecoach Rd., 4 mi. W. of U.S. 78
Text of marker: "WRIGHTSBORO. On this site in 1754, Edmund Grey, a pretending Quaker, founded the town of Brandon, named for one of its leaders. In Dec. 1768, Joseph Mattock and Jonathan Sell, Quakers, obtained a grant of 40,000 acres from the Royal Governor, Sir James Wright, revived the town and renamed it Wrightsboro, in his honor. By 1775 over 60 families had settled in the town and 200 in the township - all Quaker. During the Revolutionary War the fort here, Fort Wrightsboro, was commanded by Captain Thomas White. John Louis Porter edited the newspaper, "The Village Wreathe." Sherwood Roberts kept the inn. 094-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_wrightsboro
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_wrightsboro
- 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:
-
