Hardwicke Historical Marker
N 31° 52.981 W 081° 13.807
17R E 478236 N 3527492
Hardwicke Historical Marker on Ga 144 Spur 2.1 miles East of Ga 144
Waymark Code: WM1QYV
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/27/2007
Views: 31
"This site on the Great Ogeechee, 14 miles from the Atlantic, was selected in 1755 by Governor John Reynolds for the capital of Georgia. He named it for his kinsman, Lord High Chancellor of England, Phillip Yorke Hardwicke. Reynolds said: "Hardwicke has a charming situation, the winding of the river making it a peninsula and it is the only fit place for the capital." In 1761, Sir James Wright, the Province Governor, determined against the removal of the capital from Savannah. Hardwicke then became little more than a trading village and it is now listed among "the dead towns of Georgia."
Georgia Society, Daughters of the Amercan Colonists - 1968"
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: None
Date: 1968
Sponsor: Georgia Society, Daughters of the American Colonists
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