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Hardee's Salient Historical Marker
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- Site: Hardy Pace's Res. Howard's
Headquarters Historical Marker
- Located at a house on Paces Mill Rd., Vinings
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- SITE: HARDY PACE'S RES.
- HOWARD'S HEADQUARTERS
Hardy Pace (1785-1864), operated
the Chattahoochee River ferry at site of bridge where Pace's
Ferry rd. crosses. Federal forces occupied Vining's Station,
July 5-17, 1864, while preparing to cross at Pace's & Power's
for the move on Atlanta. Gen. O. O. Howard, 4th A. C., had headquarters
at the Pace res., July 5-10. Vining's temporary terminal of the
R. R. , was the subsistence & ammunition dump of the Federal
army during the siege & capture of Atlanta. Wounded from
the Atlanta front were sent to Vining's where the Pace house
was used as a hospital later, destroyed by fire.
033-84 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
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