Image Credit: Banks County Historical Society
Year Erected: 1953
Marker Text: Colonel Elijah Clarke, distinguished Revolutionary soldier, fought a battle with the Cherokees at the meeting of the Broad and Savannah rivers and conducted a guerrilla campaign against British troops in the region. The river bridge, known as the Line Bridge, is on the survey line of the “Last Four Mile Purchase Tract” bought from the Cherokee Nation by the government. Colonel William Wofford and a party appointed by the state legislature rode horseback to Washington to petition the federal government to buy this land. The resulting treaty was signed in 1804 and ratified in 1824.
Tips for Finding This Marker: On Ga 184 near the Middle Fork of Broad River near Baldwin.
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