JAMES HENRY HAMMOND (0)
8/19/12 •
James Henry Hammond was born on November 15, 1807. But wait a minute, let’s back up and look at his parents. The descendents of the Hammond family settled in Massachusetts back in 1634. It wasn’t until 1802, that a representative of the Hammond family came to Charleston, South Carolina. His name was Elisha Hammond. When [...]
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GRANDISON HARRIS – “The Resurrection Man” (0)
7/31/12 •
Grandison Harris was a black man born in the year of 1816 in West Africa. In 1852, then 36 years old, Grandison found himself on the slave auction block in Charleston, South Carolina. That day the dean of the Medical College in Augusta, Georgia came to Charleston to bid on a slave. He saw Grandison [...]
Wylly Barron (0)
7/17/12 •
Wylly Barron was a man who lived and worked here in Augusta, Georgia. He was born in the year 1806 about 25 years after the Revolutionary War, when we won our freedom from England. I don’t know where he was born, or when he moved to Augusta, but he did. While Wylly Barron was in [...]
Charles Dawson Tilly (0)
7/12/12 •
Charles Dawson Tilly was born June 16, 1845 in Carlow, Ireland. “He entered Dublin University at an early age and finished his education in Paris. He then came to the United States and in 1869 was induced to go to Augusta, Georgia by Major Branch, of the firm of Branch Scott & Co., and whose [...]
My Georgia – Augusta (0)
6/24/12 •
The state of Georgia goes way back in time -back to when James Edward Oglethorpe founded Savannah at Yamacraw Bluff in 1733. In 1736, Oglethorpe sent two men, Kennedy O’Brien and Roger DeLacy, up the Savannah River to establish a fort, that would be a door to the back country. Today we know the area [...]
