Meadow Garden

Meadow Garden was the home of George Walton, a Revolutionary patriot and soldier who served as Governor, Congressman, Senator, and jurist. Along with Button Gwinnett and Lyman Hall, he signed the Declaration of Independence for the State of Georgia on July 4, 1776. Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1749, Walton went to Savannah about 1769 and read law under Henry Young, Esq. Prominent in Revolutionary activities from the beginning at Tondee’s Tavern on July 27, 1774, he became President of the Council of Safety and a delegate to the Continental Congress. In 1777 he married Dorothy Camber of Chatham County. Commissioned a Colonel by Gov. Bulloch, he was wounded and captured in the siege of Savannah in 1779, and soon after his release he was elected Governor. In 1780 he built Meadow Garden on a 200 acre tract of land on the edge of Augusta. Many great men of the day visited Meadow Garden, including George Washington in 1791 and Gen. LaFayette in 1825. George Walton died at Meadow Garden on February 2, 1804, and was buried at Rosney Chapel before his body was later moved to the Signers Monument in front of the Courthouse. Purchased in 1900 by the Nat. Soc. DAR, Meadow Garden, one of the foremost shrines of the Revolution, is filled with rare colonial treasures and is maintained by the Augusta Chapter DAR with aid from other Georgia chapters.

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