Twiggs Cemetery-GHM 121-26-Richmond Co
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Sprinterman
N 33° 20.732 W 081° 58.567
17S E 409170 N 3690019
Ga 56 at Goshen Rd, about 2 miles south of Tobacco Road
Waymark Code: WM7AEZ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2009
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In the cemetery about 300 yards from here are buried Major-General John Twiggs, a hero of the American Revolution, for whom Twiggs County is named, and his son, Major-General David Emanuel Twiggs, who achieved military distinction in the Mexican War and after resigning his commission at the outbreak of the War Between the States, became a Major-General in the Confederate Army
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-26
Date: 1956
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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