Author "The Young Marooners"
»—1mi.?
Francis Robert Goulding, preacher, teacher,
author, inventor, as minister of the Bath
Presbyterian Church from 1843 to 1851,
occupied its manse, about 1 mile North.
During that time he wrote the most popular
of his several books: " The Young Marooners".
Born at Midway, GA (1810), and graduated
from the University of Georgia and the
Theological Seminary of Columbia, he
served as Chaplain during the War Between
the States, preached and taught at numerous
churches and schools in this section and
died impoverished at Roswell, GA (1881).
He invented a sewing machine in 1842, four
years before Howe's invention was patented.
Marker is at the intersection of Deans Bridge Road (U.S. 1) and Bath-Edie Road (Georgia Road 75), on the right when traveling south on Deans Bridge Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
