Griswoldville-GHM 084-4-Jones Co
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Sprinterman
N 32° 52.267 W 083° 29.331
17S E 267134 N 3639745
On Henderson Road in Griswold
Waymark Code: WM6WTK
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2009
Views: 5
The town is named for Samuel Griswold who moved his iron foundries and cotton gin factories here from Clinton to be on the railroad. A disastrous unrecorded battle was fought here in 1864 when a force of old men and youths under Gen. Phillips, Capt. Robert H. Barron & Lt. Henry Greaves, sent from Macon by Gen. Howell Cobb in an attempt to force the Federals from the city, fought a bloody diversionary action against Kilpatrick´s Union Cavalry which then proceeded to Irwinton. Griswold´s factories and property were destroyed because he had made arms and ammunition for the Confederacy.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 084-4
Date: 1954
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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