As we do more and more research we think this house was built and George Waltons home was later moved to join it. The defining point of the houses is that there are two different levels. From this wall back is the newer structure. As i step down into the room, we are in the older structure of the house. This would have been the primary room for entertaining. I should point out that none of the furniture is original to the house or the walton family. Everything is period appropriate. He stayed in philadelphia for a year and he worked on much of their wallwork. He stayed in philadelphia when a lot of people fled. He had to leave to come back to georgia because he was also a kernel in the militia. He came back in time to defend savannah from the british but unfortunately he was not successful and in fact he was wounded. He was captured by the british. This is why he was fortunate because the physicians were able to take care and heal him. This made him very concerned about dorothy. He wan
Home of president Woodrow Wilson in a gusto in augusta georgia. Dr. Wilson was originally from stephenville, ohio, and had gone into the presbyterian ministry. When he first came to augusta, he was making 2500 a year. They liked him so much and wanted him to stay, so they sweetened the pot, so to speak and raise the salary to 3000 a year and but a new house, which is the one we are in today where the family moved in 1860. To give you an idea of what 3000 was in those days, most families in the united states, depending on where they lived and their circumstances, but most families lives on between 300 and 800 a year. He was making a large income. We own exactly the same property that they occupied in the 1860s. This is the pastor posterity where he would have spent a lot of his time during his congregational work and sermons, meeting with parishioners, keeping covered additional records, but it was remembered by Woodrow Wilsons younger brother of being lined with books and smelling of t
He is it her young man when he signed the declaration, 26. We do not know if he was the youngest. There was a signer from South Carolina born in november, we do not know when george was born. He was born in a time between 1749 and 1750. His father had made provisions for education. His father died very close to birth. His mother died when he was seven years old. He was taken into the family of his economical. His aunt and uncle. When he turned of age, about 13, he was apprenticed to a carpenter. Either he was not a very good carpenter, or more likely he wanted he left that apprenticeship in his late teens and came to georgia to study law. He came to study with a prominent lawyer. He was clerk and did very well. He passed the bar. When you pass the bar, you have to swear loyalty to the king. His mentor was also a loyalist. He had many cases before the bar. He became a very prominent lawyer. He also accorded a young lady by the name of dorothy and her father was a prominent loyalist. Tha
Decision that he was going to march to the sea, come hell or high water. There were so many rumors going on in that era of him coming through georgia. Rumors scare. The people get scared. Of the people think he is coming in than they do not move there almost paralyzed. That caused as much far as him actually attacking this area. Strategically he never intended to. He marched to the sea started in north georgia. He came down from tennessee general sherman, he started in north georgia. He had a number of major skirmishes bottles, that were in north georgia. Went down to atlanta, and then from atlanta went right across the state to savanna georgia. Sherman never intended to come to augusta. That is well documented and he wrote an editorial to the local paper saying, i never wanted to come, i never intended to come but we made sure that you thought we were going to come. But lieutenant sherman was actually stationed here very early in his career. The reason i do not think he came here is b
Lucy craft laney was africanamerican, educated, and she was one of the most those attending africanamericans educated in the state of georgia. She was born in macon georgia in 1854. That was during a time where black people were not they could not be taught to read and write. Even though her father was a free slave, they had to work for slaveowners. Every day when lucy craft laneys mother went to the big house as they called it, she would go to their library, which was a very nice one. When she did that, the slave owners sister, who was a really bright girl, she decided that she would teach her everything that she possibly could but lucy craft laney was 15 years old and she could read and write and she was a welleducated young lady. She matriculated into atlanta universitys firstclass along with four other students. When she completed her program there she decided that she would teach. She went back to macon, and there she talked or a short time. Then she went to the military and then