About: Hopewell Baptist Church was organized in 1851. We are a member of the Hightower Baptist Association, which is part of the Georgia Southern ...
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Circa 1815. Jeremiah Field, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, came with his family to settle in the Cherokee Nation at a site to be known as Fiel...
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The Dinsmore Sawmill was one of at least 30 sawmills in Milton County in the 1940s and 1950s. Some mills were fixed, others were portable so they c...
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This structure served the Birmingham community as one of seven militia district court-houses in Milton County. Rolls were maintained of eligible ma...
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By the time the first school was established here in 1874, the area had already been settled by several pioneer families. Many of their names appea...
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John B. Broadwell was the great-grandson of Jesse Broadwell, an early (1838) settler of the area. Jesse obtained four land lots (160 acres) in Crab...
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In 1834, Thomas Byrd of Hall County paid $400 to purchase Land Lot 403 -- a swath of 40 acres in what was then Cherokee County. Circuit riders ofte...
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The community takes its name from Bethany Baptist Church. Constituted on December 27, 1850, the church was significant in the settlement of the are...
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The Saint Aidan's Episcopal Church Cemetery is located by Alpharetta North Park on Cogburn Road. There are no burials, but there ashes from cremati...
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Intersection of Thompson Rd and Scotlandwell Place,
Milton, GA
The Hardeman-Dinsmore Family Cemetery is located in the City of Milton, at the intersection of Thompson Rd and Scotlandwell Place in the Potter Sto...
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