Things To Do in Perkins, Georgia

Inscription. On August 5, 1936, an organizational meeting of the Planters Electric Membership Corporation was held in the Bellevue Plantation commissary building. Those present and elected to become officers were Porter W. Carswell, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. 4.3 miles west of this point stands Old Buckhead Church. The present structure built around 1845 housed one of the oldest Baptist Congregations in the United States. The Buckhead Churc... More on HMDB

Inscription. This church, near Buckhead Creek, from which it derives its name, was probably organized before the Revolution by Matthew Moore, Baptist minister whose loyalist sympathies led him to l... More on HMDB

Inscription. Site of Camp Lawton, A Confederate Military Prison, built in 1864 to relieve the, overcrowded condition at, Andersonville Prison in Macon, County. Lawton Prison was a, stockade, enclosing 42 acres. 1398 feet by 1329 feet ... More on HMDB

Inscription. This is one of the older settlements in this part of Georgia having been established sometime prior to 1840 and receiving its name from Enoch or Hardy Scarborouogh of Screven County. In 1839 it became Station No. 7 on ... More on HMDB

Jenkins County, the 138th county formed in Georgia, was created in 1905 from territory then belonging to the counties of Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel and Screven. The county was named for Governor Charl... More on Jenkinscounty.georgia.gov

Inscription. Jenkins County was organized from territory cut from Burke, Screven, Bulloch, and Emanuel counties in 1905, and officially began its function as a new political unit on Jan. 1, 1906. T... More on HMDB

Inscription. ( South Face ), 1861-1865, Erected June 3rd.1909, By, The Wayside Home, Chapter. U. D. C. In Honor Of Our, Confederate Soldiers, Whom Power Could, Not Corrupt, Whom Death Could, Not Terrify, Whom Defeat Could, Not Dishonor. ... More on HMDB

Inscription. This boulder is placed by, The Wayside Home Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, of Jenkins County, Georgia and, The Margaret Jones Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederac... More on HMDB

Inscription. Was erected near this spot, by patriotic citizens of this, vicinity for the sick and, wounded soldiers and all, weary and hungry wearers, of the Confederate Grey, , Erected 1951 by Wa... More on HMDB

Inscription. On Nov. 28, 1864, the 3rd Cavalry Division Union Brig. Gen. J. L. Kilpatrick, USA, was driven south from Waynesboro by the Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee Confederate Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA. Retreating under constant ... More on HMDB

Inscription. On the night of Dec. 2, 1864. Hq. Military Division of the Mississippi [US]. Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman. USA, camped on the west bank of Buckhead Creek near the bridge. During the late afternoon of the 2nd, the 17th Corps ... More on HMDB