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Creation Date
9-5-2010
Description
Wildes Massacre Marker Waycross GA
The text on the marker reads as :
" Here, on a Sunday morning in July, 1832, seven members of the Wildes Settlement were murdered by an Indian raiding party from the Okefenokee Swamp. Six of the victims were of the Wildes family, one was a 12-year-old girl of the Wilkinsons. Five children escaped to the Post House 2 miles away. After the massacre, the Indians robbed, then burned the Wilds home."
Georgia Historical Commission 1958
Latitude, Longitude
31.21130000, -82.35510000
Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Keywords
Taylor, George Lansing, Jr.; Lance Taylor; Photographers -- Florida -- Jacksonville; Photograph collections -- Florida -- Jacksonville; Wildes Massacre Marker; Wildes Settlement; Wildes Family; Wildes Massacre; Historical marker --- Georgia--- Waycross.; Images