Myrtle Hill Cemetery
Rome, GA
Floyd County
2012

Col. George Washington Lee (1831-1879) on November 18, 1864 engineered the train carrying the State Archives of Georgia safely from Milledgeville to Augusta and kept them from Federal capture.

Saving the South from Itself: George W. Lee and Internal Conflict in Civil War Atlanta - by Robert Scott Davis

Savior of Georgia state archives honored in Rome - February 12, 2012 Article in The Rome News Tribune