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Creation Date
12-29-2011
Building Name
Webster County Courthouse
Description
First Confederate Flag Raising Marker, Preston, GA.
This marker is placed in the Webster County Courthouse, Preston, Georgia where the first Confederate flag raising took place in 1861.
The text on the marker reads as :
" On this Courthouse lawn the first Confederate flag raising in Georgia took place March 31, 1861. Judge David B. Harrell of Webster County, Capt. James Pickett of Red Hill, Dr. Harvis Pickett of Weston, with their companies of soldiers, trained in Preston. Voting for Miss Mollie Josey as the most popular girl in town, the troops chose her to raise the flag. With much ceremony and enthusiasm a vast crowd witnessed the rites. At the end of the war Union troops stationed in Preston cut down and destroyed the flagpole."
Sponsored by the Georgia Historical Commission 1955.
Latitude, Longitude
32.06620278, -84.53713333
Recommended Citation
George Lansing Taylor, Jr. "First Confederate Flag Raising Marker, Preston, GA." (2011). Image Collection. University of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections and Archives. UNF Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/3125/
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