Year Erected: 1956
Image Credit: Mike Stroud
Marker Text: West of here is Meadow Garden, home of George Walton, Revolutionary soldier, governor, state delegate, senator, and Chief Justice of Georgia. With Button Gwinnett and Lyman Hall, he represented Georgia in signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Born in Cumberland County, Virginia, around 1749, Walton went to Savannah in 1769 and read law under Henry Young, Esquire. Walton was prominent in Revolutionary activities from the beginning, meeting at Savannah’s Tondee’s Tavern in July 1774. He soon became president of the Council of Safety and delegate to the Continental Congress. In 1778, he married Dorothy Camber of Chatham County. Commissioned a colonel by Governor Bulloch, Walton was wounded and captured in an attack on Savannah in 1778. Soon after his release in 1779, he was elected governor. In the early 1790s, he built Meadow Garden on a 200-acre tract of land at the edge of Augusta. George Walton died at Meadow Garden on February 2, 1804, and was buried at Rosney Chapel. His body was later moved to the Signers Monument in front of the Augusta Courthouse. Meadow Garden was purchased in 1900 by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and is now maintained by the Georgia State Society of the DAR.
Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2025
Tips for Finding This Marker: On 13th Street (U.S. 1) near Independence Drive, on the left when traveling north in Augusta.
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