Site - Lacy Hotel

Eastward across R. R. stood the 2-story frame hotel, leased by George M. Lacy in 1859 as an eating house for passengers on the State-owned railway until June 9, 1864, when Federal forces occupied Big Shanty. On April 12, 1862, the Andrews Raiders [US] seized the locomotive "General" while the train crew and passengers were breakfasting at the hotel. Fortified by a stockade, the hotel housed a Federal garrison from June 9 to Oct. 3, 1864, when Confederate forces recaptured it. After Federal troops reoccupied it, they maintained it as an R. R. blockhouse until they abandoned and burned it on Nov. 14.

Kennesaw, Georgia · United States