Wrightsboro-GHM-094-5-McDuffie Co
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N 33° 33.046 W 082° 30.602
17S E 359815 N 3713368
At Wrightsboro on Wrightsboro/Stagecoach Rd, 4 mi W of US 78
Waymark Code: WM6Q7M
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2009
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On this site in 1754, Edmund Grey, a pretending Quaker, founded the town of Brandon, named for one of its leaders. In Dec. 1768, Joseph Mattock and Jonathan Sell, Quakers, obtained a grant of 40,000 acres from the Royal Governor, Sir James Wright, revived the town and renamed it Wrightsboro, in his homor. By 1775 over 60 families had settled in the town and 200 in the township-all Quaker. During the Rev- olutionary War the fort here, Fort Wrightsboro, was commanded by Captain Thomas White. John Louis Porter edited the newspaper "The Village Wreathe." Sherwood Roberts kept the inn.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 094-5
Date: 1956
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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