Richmond County (121)

Historic Markers Across Georgia

Richmond County was created on Feb. 5, 1777.
The county seat is in Augusta, GA.,
and the county is 328.5 Square Miles in area.

Click here to visit the Richmond county home page.

There are 92 Historic Markers in Richmond County.

1806 Eve 1877 -
598 Telfair at Sixth Street, Augusta	WM2J1		P

Augusta State University - GHS 121-8
on University Hall lawn, ASU, Augusta	WM78NC		P

Author of "The Young Marooners" - GHM 121-6
US 1 at Bath-Edie Road near Bath	WM7AFW		P

Bath - Remove - WPA A-17
(Old?) US 1 near Bath, about 3 miles NE of Blythe		R

Bellevue - GHM 121-41
At the home at Augusta College on Walton Way at Katharine St	WM25C6		P

Birthplace of Augusta Chronicle - GHM 121-35
5th Street between Broad and Ellis Streets, Augusta	WM7A3K		P

Birthplace of General Joseph Wheeler - GHM 121-43
Wheeler and Aumond Roads, 1 mile NW of Augusta city limits	WM78KW		P

Blue Star Memorial - GCG
US 278 at Gate 1, Fort Gordon

Blue Star Memorial Highway - GCG
Georgia Welcome Station, Westbound I-20	WM91JA		P

Blue Star Memorial Highway - GCG
US 1 (?), Fort Gordon

Blue Star Memorial Highway - GCG
5th St at Reynolds, Augusta	WM7A44		P

Bobby Jones and the Beginning of the Grand Slam - GHS 121-1
Entrance to Forest Hills Golf Club, Augusta	WM78KJ		P

Boyhood Home of Woodrow Wilson - GHM 121-18
Telfair and 7th Streets, Augusta	WM7A35		P

Church of the Most Holy Trinity - GHS 121-3
720 Telfair Street, Augusta	WM6XNE		P

Colonial Fort Augusta - GSCD
on the grounds of St Pauls Church 6th and Reynolds Streets, Augusta, GA	WM7AG9		P

Confederate Powder Works - GHM 121-20
Broad Street at the Augusta Canal, Augusta	WM7AB8		P

Curtis Baptist Church -
1326 Broad St, Augusta

De l'Aigle Brick Yard - WPA 1 A-11
3rd Street near Walton Way mounted on the brick wall on the north side of the building at the entrance to the cemetery	WM7A75		P

DeSoto In Georgia - GHM 121-50
8th Street at Riverwalk (river side), Augusta	WM51RE		P

Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman 1794-1885 - GHM 121-52
719 Broad Street, Augusta	WM79HP		P

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - GHS 121-9
629 Greene St., Augusta	WM7A2X		P

First Ebenezer Baptist Church - GHS 121-7
Ebeneezer Rd. at Windsor Spring Rd. north of Hepzibah	WM7AFT		P

Fort Augusta-Fort Cornwallis - replaced by GHM 121-30 - GHM 121-15
6th and Reynolds St, Augusta		R

Fort Augusta-Fort Cornwallis-St. Paul's Church - GHM 121-30
6th and Reynolds Streets, Augusta	WMJ1Q		P

Fort Grierson - GHM 121-4
Eleventh at Reynolds Streets, Augusta	WM7940		P

Georgia R.R. and Banking Company - GHM 121-5
8th Street near Telfair Street, Augusta	WMJH4

Georgia's First School of Medicine - GHM 121-49
124 Greene Street, Augusta	WM7A7D		P

Georgia's State Capital - GHS 121-9
Bay Street near Elbert Street, Augusta	WM7A69		P

Great Indian Trading Path - DAC
McDowell St at Johns St, Summerhill, Augusta	WM258V		P

Great Indian Warrior/Trading Path - DAC
on Riverwalk, Augusta	WM51QP		P

Haines Normal and Industrial Institute - GHS 121-14
in front of Laney High School at the intersection of Laney Walker Blvd and Phillips St in Augusta, GA	WM78VY		P

Hephzibah Methodist Church - GHM 121-32
South of Ga 88 at the church in Hephzibah	WM7AFP		P

Home of Governor Telfair - GHM 121-13
Broad Street at East Boundry, Augusta	WM7A7M		P

Home of John Forsyth - GHM 121-22
Milledge and Cumming Roads, Augusta	WM78RH		P

Home of Nicholas Ware - GHM 121-24
Telfair at 5th Street, Augusta

Home of Richard Henry Wilde - GHM 121-31
2229 Pickens Road, Augusta	WM25A6		P

John McClinton Tutt 1886-1986 - GHS 121-13
in front of one of the buildings at the Museum of Black History at 1108 Phillips St., Augusta, GA	WM78VG		P

Joseph R. Lamar, Associate Justice Supreme Court - GHS 121-6
415 Seventh Street, Augusta	WM7A2Z		P

Joseph Rucker Lamar - replaced - GHS 121-6
reportedly removed to the Grand Lodge of Georgia at Masonic Temple, 3201 Wrightsville Rd., Augusta		R

Kaolin - Removed - WPA A-16
10 mi SW of Augusta, US 1		R

LaFayette Visits Augusta - GHM 121-42
McArtan Street at Jones St, Augusta	WM79HQ		P

Liberty Methodist Church - GHM 121-47
E of Hephzibah and US 1 on Liberty Church Rd S of Browns Rd	WM7AF4		P

Liberty Methodist Church - Replaced by GHM 121-47 - GHM 121-33
E of Hephzibah and US 1 on Liberty Church Rd S of Browns Rd		R

Lucy Craft Laney - GHS
Laney Museum, 1116 Phillips St., Augusta	WM78VK		P

Magnolia Cemetery - GSCD
3rd Street near Walton Way	WM7A6V		P

Meadow Garden-Home of George Walton - GHM 121-34
4 13th and Independence Streets, Augusta	WM78WG		P

Medical College Building - GHM 121-14
Sixth and Telfair Streets, Augusta

Miss Lucy Craft Laney 1854-1933 - AAAHC
at the corner of Laney-Walker Blvd and Phillips St. in Augusta, GA	WM78WC		P

Montrose: Home of Col. Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. - GHM 121-38
2249 Walton Way, Augusta	WM78RQ		P

Old Richmond Academy Building - GHM 121-9
500 block of Telfair Street, Augusta	WM28T		P

Overton, Home of Gov. John Milledge - Removed - WPA
635 Gary Street, Augusta		R

Paine College - GHM 121-46
Paine College Campus on Druid Park Avenue, Augusta	WM78RZ		P

Paine College Founding Site -
10th and Broad (NW corner) in Augusta

Pendleton King Park (Sand Hills) -
Kissingbower Rd at Woodland Ave, Augusta

Pierce Memorial Methodist Church - GHM 121-37
1441 Jackson Road, Augusta	WM78KA		P

Residence of William Schley - Removed - GHM 121-16
Augusta		R

Richmond Academy - Removed - WPA
4 blocks north of Telfair St, Augusta		R

Richmond County - GHM 121-27
Courthouse, Greene Street, Augusta	WM2Q3		P

Samuel Hammond - DAR
in the median of Greene St. between 8th and 9th streets Augusta, GA	WM79HV		P

Signal Corps Aviation School 1911-1913 - GHM 121-44
Sand Bar Ferry at Oak Street, Augusta	WM7A9A		P

Spirit Creek Baptist Church - GHS 121-4
1783 Dixon Airline Road, Augusta	WM7ACE		P

Springfield Baptist Church, Birthplace of Morehouse College - GHM 121-51
Reynolds St and 12th Street, Augusta	WM793W		P

St. James United Methodist Church - HAI
439 Greene Street, Augusta 30901			P

Stoney Nurses Home of the Lamar School of Nursing - GHS 121.5
R.A. Dent Blvd. and Saint Sebastian Way, Augusta	WM78V8		P

Summerville Cemetery - GHM 121-36
Cumming Road at John's Road, Augusta	WM78P9		P

The "Haunted" Pillar of the Lower Market - GSCD
on the median at 5th and Broad Streets, Augusta	WM7A3T		P

The Augusta Arsenal - GHM 121-25
Walton Way at Augusta College, Augusta	WM78NR		P

The Augusta Canal - GHM 121-1
13th Street at Walton Way and Fenwick St, Augusta	WM4E23		P

The First Academy of Richmond County - GHM 121-17
Bay and Fourth Streets, Augusta	WM7A6Q		P

The First Baptist Church - GHM 121-29
Greene and Eighth Streets, Augusta	WMHDF		P

The First Presbyterian Church - GHM 121-11
500 block of Telfair Street, Augusta	WM7A39		P

The Home of Charles Jones Jenkins, Jr., LL.D. - GHM 121-39
2248 Cumming Road, Augusta	WM78R9		P

The Mayham Tower - GHM 121-23
Eighth and Reynolds Streets, Augusta	WMHCV

The Medical College of Georgia - GHM 121-3
1400 block of Laney-Walker Blvd at the College, Augusta	WM78V5		P

The Signer's Monument - GHM 121-28
Greene Street opposite the courthouse, Augusta	WM28R		P

The Sisters of Saint Joseph in Augusta - GHS 121-11
1220 Monte Sano Dr., Augusta	WM78M0		P

The Tobacco Road - GHM 121-10
Ga 56 (Old Savannah Road) at Tobacco Road, Augusta

The White House or Mackay's Trading Post - Replaced by GHM 121-48 - GHM 121-21
1822 Broad Street, Augusta		R

To Commemorate the Great Congress of Five Indian Nations - GSCD
Located on the wall of St. Paul's Church 6th and Reynolds Streets, Augusta, GA	WM7AG1		P

To George Walton (1740-1804) - F. & A. M.
North side of Meadow Garden property, 13th & Independence	WM793D		P

Twiggs Cemetery - GHM 121-26
Ga 56 at Goshen Rd, about 2 miles south of Tobacco Road	WM7AEZ		P

Two Early Augusta Churches - GHM 121-45
Greene St in front of St John's Methodist Church, Augusta	WM79V6		P

U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth (1754-1794) - GHS 121-12
St Paul's Episcopal Church, 605 Reynolds St, Augusta	WM7A9H		P

Untitled (Georgia Railroad and Banking Company) -
At 1st Union Bank, Broad Street at Seventh, Augusta	WMJH4		P

Ware High School Civil Rights Milestone - GHM 148-7
Reynolds and Kolloch St at Golf Hall of Fame site, Augusta	WM79CB		P

Washington's Southern Tour - GHS 121-2
St Pauls Episcopal Church, 605 Reynolds St, Augusta	WMGCN		P

White House Tract - GHM 121-48
1822 Broad St, Augusta at Harris House	WM7AC2		P

William Bartram Trail Traced 1773-1777 - GCG
Riverwalk at 8th Street, Augusta	WM51RG		P

William Bartram Visited Augusta, 1773 - GHM 121-7
In the plaza at the Post Office, Augusta, on East Ford St

William Makepeace Thackeray - GHM 121-8
700 block of Broad St., Augusta	WMP2R		P

William Schley 1786-1858 - F. & A. M.
Richmond Hill Rd at Bobby Jones Expressway, Augusta	WM7AC4		P

Woodrow Wilson Spring - GHM 121-40
US 25 at McBean Creek, at the Burke County line

M - The marker is missing.
P - There is a picture of the marker on the detail page.
P* - There is a picture of the marker on the detail page and I have personally visited this marker.
R - The marker has been removed.

Waymark of *NE - This marker is not eligible to be waymarked.