Things To Do in Barnesville, Georgia

overview: The Old Jail Museum is located in downtown Barnesville featuring a look back at Barnesville' s history as the Buggy Capital of the South. Loaded with memorabilia, you' ll have an opportunity to take a walk back ... More on MuseumStuff.com

Deer Trail Country Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Barnesville, Georgia. This medium-length layout has 3 sets of teeboxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience. Online t... More on TheGolfCourses.net

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Inscription. The historic Gachet home is situated at the crossing of Towns and old Alabama Roads, called Milner Cross Roads. This road was also an Indian trail. Benjamin Gachet, a French nobleman, fled from a San Domingo revolution ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In July 1864 the following hospitals were in Barnesville: Kingsville Hospital, Surgeon B. N. Avent. Kingston Hospital, Surgeon George W. McDade, Asst. Surgeon V. S. Hopping. This hospi... More on HMDB

Inscription. During the War Between the States, 1861-1865, 155 Confederate soldiers, wounded in the Battle of Atlanta and evacuated, died in several improvised hospitals in Barnesville. This marks ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Co. B – 121st Infantry, Barnesville, Georgia, “Old Gray Bonnet” This memorial is dedicated to all who served with the Barnesville Blues. This company served actively as a part of Georgias National Guard ... More on HMDB

Lamar County was created in 1920 from portions of Monroe and Pike counties and is named for Lucius Quintus Cinncinatus Lamar, a Confederate Army colonel, Secretary of the Interior under Grover Clev... More on Lamarcounty.georgia.gov

Inscription. Lamar County was created by Act of State Assembly August 17, 1920. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, lawyer, Colonel in the Confederate Army, U. S. Senator, Secretary ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Built in 1915 as the Johnstonville School. The school closed its doors in late 1945 and the building became the Johnstonville Community Clubhouse. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Goggans was named for the family of John F. Goggans. He donated the land for the railroad station, general store, where the post office was located, and access land to the Union Primitive Baptist Church. At different ... More on HMDB

Inscription. As Wilsons Federal Cavalry moved toward Macon, near this spot on Wednesday, April 19, 1865, some of them attacked a small Confederate force, “The Dixie Rangers.” Greatly outnumbered, “The Rangers” ... More on HMDB

Inscription. REA Project 75 was chartered in February 1937 and was energized August 11, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became Lamar Electric Membership Corporation. This day, January ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Dedicated August 11, 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rededicated to service 1988, E. J. Martin, Jr. President, W. H. Averett, Jr. V. President, J. H. Gunnels, Secretary, H. B.... More on HMDB