HIST. MARKERS

The following Historical markers are located in Haralson County.

LOCATED AT THE HARALSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, BUCHANAN

GHM 071-1 Old Courthouse, US27 and GA 120, Buchanan HARALSON COUNTY....This County, created by Act of the Legislature Jan.26,1856,is named for Gen. Hugh A. Haralson. Member of Congress and Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs during the Mexican War. The County Site is named for James Buchanan, last Democratic President before the War. Among the first County Officers were: Sheriff John K. Holcombe, Clerk of Superior Court Van A. Brewster. Clerk of Inferior Court Jesse M. Jeans. Tax Receiver Hiram Ray. Tax Collector Alfred H. Green. Ordinary George H. Hamilton. Surveyor William D. F. Mann and Coroner John McClung. 071-1 GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER 1954

LOCATED AT FREEMAN ST., TALLAPOOSA

GHM 071-3, US78 at Freeman Street, Tallapoosa....HISTORIC TALLAPOOSA Tallapoosa was a place of great ceremonial importance to the Indians. Here in 1826 settlers discovered "Charles Town", an Indian village named for one of their great warriors. Several Indian trails intersected here and the Choctaw, Creek and Cherokee tribes frequently assembled here in a grove of "Seven Chestnuts" to trade or to make war. A local farmer, William Owens, found gold here in 1842. and some 100,000 pennyweights were mined. Tallapoosa achieved internation renown in 1890 when Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts and other notables including two United States Treasurers....A. U. Wyman and James W. Hyatt--organized the Georgia-Alabama investment and Development Co., to build a new city along the tracks of the Georgia Pacific Railroad, which had been built in 1882. The new city of Tallapoosa attracted some 15,000 investors, 3000 new inhabitants and a billion dollars in capitalization. It was a city "built as if by magic," Henry W. Grady said: "One which challenged the attention and admiration of the world.

HUNGARIAN COLONY GHM 071-3 US 78, .3 MI. WEST OF WACO JUST WEST OF WACO SCHOOL ROAD.

In 1888, three winemaking communities were founded here on some 2000 acres. A local land developer, Ralph L. Spencer, invited some 200 Hungarian wine-making families to settle this region. They named their largest community BUDAPEST, in honor of the capital of Hungary. The village of TOKAJ recalled the famous wine-making region of Hungary, and NYITRA was named after an ancient fort in the northern region of their homeland. Homes, streets, shops, a school, a Catholic church, a cemetery and other municipal facilites were built. The wine industry flourished in this climate. In 1908 the passage of the Prohibition Act in Georgia spelled their doom. The residents were forced back to the Pennsylvania mines. The rectory still stands on a hill, a fine tribute to the master masons who erected it. The pioneer Hungarians who became a part of the Georgia soil lie in the little fenced cemetery over the hill, many graves still marked with names which sound foreight to these parts. By ancient tradition the inhibitants lie with their heads toward the East and their beloved homeland.

SANDTOWN TRAIL UDC JUNCTION OF GA 120 AND GA 100, TALLAPOOSA

"This road was orginally the Sandtown Trail traveled by several tribes of Creek Indians. It connected Sandtown on the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta, Ga. with another Sandtown in Tallapoosa Co., Ala. Later became Old Ala. Road over which early white settlers traveled. Itg was at one time a stagecoach route through this section." A. D. McBride Chapter, U.D.C. 1970

SEVEN CHESTNUTS UDC BOWDEN AND CHESTNUT STREETS, TALLAPOOSA.

"On this site under seven chestnut trees the
Creek Indians held their
council meetings." A. D. McBride Chapter, U.D.C. 1970