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Photo Gallery: "Founding of Griffin"
This marker is located on Old US 41. Another similar marker
appears closer to the site mentioned in the marker below. See that marker
page for pictures of the area around that marker.
Sign text:
Near the present junction of the Central and Southern
Railways, from a stump near the town spring, on June 8, 1840, Gen. Lewis
Lawrence Griffin sold lots to the highest bidder, thus establishing the City
of Griffin. William Leake bought the first lot. Gen. Griffin, an early
advocate of the railroad and one of the welthiest men in Middle Georgia, was
the first president of the Monroe Railroad and Banking Co. A General in the
Georgia Militia, he fought in the Indian war known as the Florida Campaign
and in the wars against the Creeks. He served in the State Legislature in
1829 and 1830.
126-8 Georgia Historical Commission 1956
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