Richard Peters' Plantation

Richard Peters' Plantation is a Georgia historical marker in Gordon County, dedicated 1953.

At the intersection of East Belmont Drive and Peters Street in Calhoun.

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May 16, 1864 Williams' 1st & Geary's 2d divs., 20th A. C. [US], crossed the Coosawattee at McClure's Ferry near Pine Chapel, & night of the 17th, reached this cross-roads -- Buschbeck's brigade of Geary's div. camping on the Peters plantation. These troops, together with the 4th & 14th Corps [US] on the Atlanta road 1 mile W., were of the Army of the Cumberland & center of Sherman's advance S. from two days of battle at Resaca. The 4th & 14th Corps marched to Kingston; the 20th, to Cassville.

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1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Richard Peters' 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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This historical marker is part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program and was erected by the Georgia Historical Commission. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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