The Rainey Plantation

The Rainey Plantation is a Georgia historical marker in DeKalb County, dedicated 1954.

At the intersection of Shallowford and Chamblee Tucker Roads in Atlanta.

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July 18, 1864. The marching columns of the Army of the Tennessee [US], having diverged 5.5 miles N.W., rejoined here when Dodge's 16th A.C. moved East from Old Cross Keys to Rainey's. Blair's 17th A.C. moved 1.75 miles S. on old Shallow Ford rd. & camped at Blake's Mill, N. Fork Peachtree Cr.; Dodge's 16th 1 mi. S. (at Candler Rd.) with headquarters at the Rainey house. Logan's 15th A.C. moved S.E. from here to Browning's Court House (TUCKER) to support Gen. Garrard's cav. in a foray on the Georgia R.R. at Stone Mtn. Logan's route was approximately the present-day Chamblee-Tucker Road via Antioch and Pleasant Hill churches.

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1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1888 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of The Rainey Plantation, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1866, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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The Rainey Plantation

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