Ray's Place-Now Raytown-GHM 131-8-Taliferro Co
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Sprinterman
N 33° 34.160 W 082° 45.153
17S E 337333 N 3715782
Crossroads in Raytown
Waymark Code: WM6T4V
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/16/2009
Views: 2
Ray´s Place, oldest community in Taliaferro County, was, in the late 1790´s and early 1800´s; a recreation center on Little River for the "livelier social set" of Washington. It was named for a Ray family from New York who lived in Washington for several years. In later years the famed Wrightsboro Road came through Raytown and the stage road from Double Wells (Barnett) to Washington. The parents and grand¬parents of Jefferson Davis owned plantations near Raytown in the early 1800´s. Mrs. Davis, fleeing Federal forces in 1865, spent a night in Raytown.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 131-8
Date: 1956
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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