Begun in 1871, Clay County’s vernacular courthouse is the oldest in the Pataula Judicial Circuit and one of the oldest in South Georgia.
Category Archives: Fort Gaines GA
Coca-Cola Mural, Fort Gaines
Restored several years ago, this early 1900s mural adorns the side of the Sutton’s Corner Museum. Please visit their website for more information.
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Volunteers’ Memorial, Fort Gaines
Placed by the Fort Gaines Historical Society in 2010, the plaque on this boulder bears the inscription:
A Tribute to the Unpaid Volunteers of the Small Villages of Small Town Georgia Who Offer Their Time, Money and Energy For the Betterment of Their Part of Heaven Called Home – In Memory of Volunteer Fire Chief George M. Coleman by Progeny Geo. M. Coleman, Coleman’s Opera House
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Wayside Inn, Fort Gaines
This served as a temporary Confederate hospital in1863. I would estimate its construction to the mid 1840s-1860 era.
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Brown House, Circa 1830, Fort Gaines
This has served as a private residence and a hotel during its long history. The “doorway to nowhere” and porthole-like windows on the frieze are quite unusual.
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Dill House, Circa 1827, Fort Gaines
Built by General John Dill, an aide to General Edmund Pendleton. General Dill’s wife was the widow Elizabeth Stewart, one of three survivors of the massacre that led to the Seminole Wars of 1817-18.
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Fort Gaines Presbyterian Church, 1904
J. W. Atwood was pastor at the time this church was constructed.
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