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The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Hinesville, Georgia. Pages in category "People from Hinesville, Georgia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Settlement of the area by European settlers was sparse until 1752. In that year, a group of Congregationalists from Dorchester, South Carolina petitioned the royal government of Georgia for grants of land in an area known as the Midway District, located between the Ogeechee and South Newport Rivers. The land was granted to them, and they moved ...
The foundation was founded by the chaplains' families and survivors of the Dorchester tragedy, including three survivors of U-boat 223, which sank the Dorchester on February 3, 1943. The Queen Mary transported these men to the US as POWs one year after the sinking of the Dorchester. [62]
By this method, Escanaba saved 133 men (one died later) and Comanche saved 97 men of the 904 aboard Dorchester. [11] The sinking of Dorchester was the worst single loss of American personnel of any American convoy during World War II. [12] Life jackets offered little protection from hypothermia, which killed most men in the water. Water ...
Dorchester Academy was a school for African-Americans located just outside Midway, Georgia. Operating from 1869 to 1940, its campus, of which only the 1935 Dorchester Academy Boys' Dormitory survives, was the primary site of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 's Citizen Education Program.
Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site sits along the Ashley River, near the town of Summerville in Dorchester County, South Carolina. In 1969, the site was donated to the South Carolina State Park Service and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1969. [ 1 ]
The Bacon-Fraser House is a historic home in Hinesville, Georgia in Liberty County, Georgia, built in 1839, two years after Hinesville was founded. It is a two-story Plantation Plain style house with weatherboard sides. The house is raised and rests on Savannah brick piers.
The James Blake House, oldest surviving home in the city of Boston, is located at Edward Everett Square. This is the historic intersection of Columbia Road, Boston Street, and Massachusetts Avenue, a few blocks from the Dorchester Historical Society. The Blake House was constructed in 1661, as was confirmed by dendrochronology in 2007. [23]