R.R. Wood Station

R.R. Wood Station is a Georgia historical marker in Whitfield County, dedicated 1953.

On Nance Spring Rd, .9 miles east of US 41 in Dalton.

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Approx. site of John H. Green's wood station during the 1860s - which was a fuel supply depot of the State R.R. April 12, 1862: Andrews' Raiders [US] with the locomotive GENERAL, paused to wood up while closely pursued by the locomotive TEXAS [CS]. May 9, 1864: 18 men of the 9th Illinois mounted infantry, [US] burned station & cut telegraph wires - an episode of McPherson's [US] first move on Resaca. The severed wires were spliced by two intrepid women of the vicinity: Mrs. Bachman and her sister, Miss Carrie Sims.

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Historical maps covering this location

1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Dalton, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of R.R. Wood Station, 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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