Year Erected: 1953
Image Credit: SBW Handyman Property Services
Marker Text: According to legend, around 1821 the traveling evangelist Lorenzo Dow visited Jacksonboro, the seat of Screven County. His fiery sermon and attempt to destroy the local saloon's stock of liquor angered the townspeople, who in turn ran him out of town. Sow found refuge in the home of fellow Methodist Seaborn Goodall, and the next day, after crossing Beaverdam Creek near this spot, he pronounced a curse upon the town, asking that only Goodall and the home be spared. Jacksonboro declined in the following years, and in 1847 the county seat was moved to Sylvania. The Dell-Goodall House is the only remaining building of old Jacksonboro and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2026.
Tips for Finding This Marker: US 301 at Jacksonboro, 5 miles north of Sylvania.
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