Gachet Home-GHM-085-1-Lamar County
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Sprinterman
N 33° 03.677 W 084° 12.502
16S E 760644 N 3661546
Ga 18 at Five Points Rd, 3 miles west of Barnesville
Waymark Code: WM4JVB
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2008
Views: 12
The historic Gachet home is situated at the crossing of Towns and old Alabama Road, called Milner Cross Roads. This road was also an Indian trail.
Benjamin Gachet, a French nobleman, fled from a San Domingo revolution and settled in what is now Lamar County.
On March 19th, 1825, General Marquis de LaFayette, on his official visit to Georgia, spent the night at the Gachet home and the noted Frenchman was doubly welcomed as a patriot and visitor from France.
This tablet was erected at the request of the Lamar-LaFayette Chapter, N.S.D.A.R.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 085-1
Date: 1954
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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