Washington's Southern Tour-GHS 25-4-Chatham Co
Posted by: Sprinterman
N 32° 10.842 W 081° 11.280
17S E 482277 N 3560480
Ga 21 North just south of I-95, Port Wentworth
Waymark Code: WMCGFE
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2011
Views: 8
Near here stood Mulberry Grove, plantation home of General Nathanael Greene and Catherine Littlefield Greene. President George Washington twice visited the widowed Mrs. Greene at Mulberry Grove during the Southern tour of 1791. Traveling downriver from Purrysburg, South Carolina to Savannah on Thursday, May 12, Washington ´called upon Mrs. Greene & asked her how she did,´ Three days later, en route overland from Savannah to Augusta, the President ´dined at Mulberry Grove´ before traveling on to lodge at ´one Spencers´ fifteen miles north in Effingham County. After traveling through modern-day Screven and Burke counties, Washington reached Augusta on Wednesday, May 18.
1999.19 Erected by The Georgia Historical Society, The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia, and the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Georgia 25-4
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 25-4
Date: 1999.19
Sponsor: Erected by The Georgia Historical Society, The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia, and the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Georgia
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