Author of "The Young Marooners"-GHM 121-06-Richmond Co
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N 33° 20.029 W 082° 09.857
17S E 391645 N 3688899
US 1 at Bath-Edie Road near Bath
Waymark Code: WM7AFW
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2009
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Robert Francis Goulding, preacher, teacher, author, inventor, as minister of the Bath Presbyterian Church from 1843 to 1851, occupied its manse, about 1 mi. north. During the time he wrote the most popular of his several books: "The Young Marooners."
Born at Midway, Ga. (1810), and graduated from the University of Georgia and theological seminary of Columbia, he served as Chaplain during the War Between the States, preached and taught at numerous churches and schools ih this section and died impoverished at Roswell, Ga. (1881).
He invented a sewing machine in 1842, four years before Howe´s invention was patented.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-6
Date: 1988
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER
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