GEORGIA HISTORICAL MARKERS
Location: City Park adjacent to the Lions Hall on Wiley Avenue, Donalsonville, Georgia Marker Dedication or Erection Date: October 5, 1980 Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the City of Donalsonville, 1980.
City of Donalsonville According to a map "Plan of Donalsonville" dated April 1889, the town was laid out by John Earnest Donalson. On December 8, 1897, a charter, signed by Governor William Yates Atkinson, was granted incorporating the Town of Donalsonville. Officers appointed were: Thomas Chason, Mayor; John E. Donalson, W. B. King, S. D. Cherry, R. D. Carr, Aldermen. This charter was amended August 12, 1922, and the name changed to City of Donalsonville.
Location: Off Georgia Highway 39, in Seminole State Park, sixteen miles south of Donalsonville, Georgia Marker Dedication or Erection Date: April 11, 1981 Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Seminole County Commission, 1980.
SIDE 1: Sabacola El Menor Located in Seminole County, near the forks of he Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, was a town of Hitchiti-speaking, Lower Creek Indians. A Spanish mission, Santa Cruz de Sabacola el Menor, was established there in 1675. By 1685, English traders from Charles Town had contact with the Lower Creeks. The English in Carolina and the Spanish in Florida were both seeking the alliance of the tribe.
SIDE 2: Sabacola El Menor Spanish efforts to establish missions further up the Chattahoochee were unsuccessful and the Christianized portion of the Indians moved south to Sabacola. In 1717, the pro-Spanish Indian leader Cherokeeleche (Cherokee-killer) built a stockade on the site. The town was abandoned after a raid by pro-English Indians in 1724. The site of Sabacola is now under the waters of Lake Seminole.
Location: Intersection of GA Highway 253 & County Road 12, Reynoldsville, Georgia Marker Dedication or Erection Date: January 1, 1991 Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the descendants of R. A. Reynolds, 1991.
SIDE 1: Site of U.S. Post Office Reynoldsville, Georgia On this site was situated the Reynoldsville Post Office from April 5, 1898 to April 20, 1913. The community was named by the Post Office Department in honor of Reuben Arthur Reynolds who served as its first postmaster. He was a pioneer environmentalist who practiced forestry managment and soil conservation on his vast land holdings of several thousand acres. Reynolds erected the post office building directly across the road in front of his home. After the Reynoldsville Post Office was discontinued, the building was used as a jail before it was razed about 1945.
SIDE 2: Reuben Arthur Reynolds This prominent agriculturist was born in Clinton, North Carolina on November 4, 1848. In 1850 he moved with his family to Decatur County, Georgia. At the age of 15 he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as a private in Company I, Third Regiment Infantry, Georgia Reserves. Reynolds was married four times and fathered twelve children whom he taught to be frugal and faithful stewards of the land. He was an active and faithful member of Bethany Baptist Church. Reynolds died on September 21, 1922 and is interred in the Bethany Cemetery.