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Allison Nelson Historical Marker
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- Allison Nelson State Historical
Marker
- Located on Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. (Ga. 139) just
east of the Chattahoochee River
(Text)
- BIRTHPLACE OF ALLISON
NELSON
One mile north where Sandy Creek
flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the house of John B.
Nelson, owner of Nelson's Ferry in the 1820's. His son, Allison
Nelson was born there March, 1822. After service in the Mexican
War, he was a representative in the Georgia General Assembly
(1848 - 1849) & ninth Mayor of Atlanta (1855). Removed to
Texas in 1856 where he engaged in Indian warfare & in 1860,
became a member of the Texas legislature.
Commissioned Brig. Gen. in the
Confederate Army, Sept. 12, 1862, he served until his death near
Austin, Lonoke Co., Arkansas, Oct. 7, 1862.
060-150 GEORGIA HISTORIC
MARKER 1992
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