Cheap Things To Do in Waynesboro, Georgia

The Burke County Museum is an interpretive facility, housed in an 1858 Georgian cottage style home. All items on exhibit have specific connections ot Burke County ... More on MuseumsUSA.org

Inscription. Historic Burke County, formerly St. George`s Parish, claims 8 Ga. Governors by birth, residence or marriage. JOHN HOUSTOUN (1744-1796), Rev. patriot, member of Continental Congress, Go... More on HMDB

Inscription. On Dec. 3, 1864, after a hard march across Buckhead, Rocky Beaver Dam and Rosemary creeks from camps N. of Birdsville and W. of Buckhead Church, the 14th Corps [US], Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, [US] (less Baird's division) ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Botsford Church, Constituted in 1773 by the Rev. Edmund Botsford, was the second Baptist church in Georgia. Originally located 25 miles below Augusta, known as the New Savannah Church, it was moved about 10 miles to this ... More on HMDB

Inscription. On Dec. 4, 1864, Kilpatrick`s cavalry division [Union] of Gen. Sherman`s army, supported by two brigades of Baird`s infantry division of the 14th Corps, drove units of Wheeler`s cavalry corps [Confederate] out of Waynesboro ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Late on Nov. 26, 1864, elements of the 3rd Cavalry Division [USA], Brig. Gen. J. L. Kilpatrick, USA, of Gen. Sherman`s army, reached the railroad bridge north of Waynesboro and partially burned it before being driven ... More on HMDB

Inscription. This tablet is placed to perpetuate the memory of Burke County (Ga) men who, in the service of their country in the World War, lost their lives in the sinking of the S. S. OTRANTO, October 6th 1918, Wm. Broadus Carter, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Shell Bluff on the Savannah River 15 miles northeast has been famous since Indian days because of its outcrops of fossil shells including those of giant oysters. These lived in the Eocene sea that covered this part of ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In Honor Of The Men Under Command, Of Colonel Twiggs And Colonel Few, Who Victoriously Defended The, Cause Of The American Revolution, At The Battle Of Burke Jail, In 1779 Erected by the Georgia Society and the Edmund ... More on HMDB

Inscription. On July 31, 1783, an Act was passed by the General Assembly meeting in Augusta to lay out a town, Waynesborough, on reserved or private land. Commissioners named (Thomas Lewis, Sr. Thomas Lewis, Jr. John Duhart, Edward ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The highway bearing left is the Old Quaker road, on of Georgia's earliest vehicular highways. It was opened about 1769 to provide a direct way from Savannah to a Quaker settlement centering around Wrightsboro in today's ... More on HMDB