Jefferson Davis Heritage Trail plans historical marker here

Donna Hardy discusses possible sites with Stephanie Macchia and Steve Longcrier, Executive Director, Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails, and (far left) Alex Wiley, MACTEC Engineering & Consulting, Inc.

Washington is to be the site of an interpretive marker for a planned Jefferson Davis Heritage Trail, and the trail's director visited this week to choose a site for the proposed marker.

Executive Director of Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails Steve Longcrier, and Alex Wiley of MACTEC Engineering & Consulting, Inc., met with Donna Hardy of the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce and Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation President Stephanie Macchia on Monday to discuss the most appropriate location for the heritage trail marker.

The Jefferson Davis Heritage Trail, one of six planned by Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails, runs from Elberton to Irvinville then back to Macon and marks the location of Jefferson Davis' flight through Georgia in May 1865. The Jefferson Davis Trail is to have a total 32 separate interpretive markers that tells the story of his flight from Richmond.

In Washington, the recommended site is to be on the west side of the courthouse lawn within the footprint of the old Bank of Georgia Branch building (also known as the Heard House), which was the very location where Davis presided over the last cabinet meeting of the Confederate government.

The W-WHF provided the funding and annual maintenance costs for the marker. Longcrier said the interpretive marker itself will be about waist-high off the ground and contain picture and text information on a three foot by two foot plaque about Davis' stay in Washington May 3 & 4, 1865.

Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails has two Trails, March to the Sea and Battle of Atlanta, already in place. The Jefferson Davis Trail is the third Trail.

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