Bethany-GHM 051-7-Effingham Co
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Sprinterman
N 32° 24.516 W 081° 14.578
17S E 477152 N 3585753
On Clyo-Stillwell Road at Bethany Road
Waymark Code: WMD6A4
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/25/2011
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The settlement of Bethany was effected near here in 1751 by John Gerar William DeBrahm, His Majesty´s Surveyor General for the Southern District of North America. Comprised at first of 160 Germans, the group was joined 11 months later by an equal number of ´Relatives and Acquaintances´. A commodious church edifice was built, also a school house and a residence for the teacher.
Bethany was in existence until the Revolution, but during that war it began to decay, and was never rebuilt.
GHM 051-7 GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER 1988
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 051-7
Date: 1988
Sponsor: Georgia Historic Marker
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