Author - The Young Marooners

Author - The Young Marooners is a Georgia historical marker in Richmond County, dedicated 1988.

At the intersection of Deans Bridge Road (U.S. 1) and Bath-Edie Road (Georgia Road 75), on the right when traveling south on Deans Bridge Road in Augusta.

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Francis Robert Goulding, preacher, educator, author, and inventor, served as minister of the Bath Presbyterian Church from 1843 to 1851. During that time, he wrote his most popular book, The Young Marooners. Born in 1810 in Midway, GA, he graduated from the University of Georgia and the Columbia Theological Seminary. He invented a sewing machine in 1842, four years before Elias Howe's lockstitch sewing machine was patented. Goulding served as Chaplain during the Civil War, and preached and taught at numerous churches and schools in this area. In 1881 he died impoverished in Roswell, GA.

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1795 · State of South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1809 · United States of America, southern part. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Author - The Young Marooners

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