Site - Lacy Hotel

SITE - LACY HOTEL. Eastward across R. R. stood the 2-story frame hotel, leased by George M. Lacy in 1859 - an eating house for passengers on the State-owned railway until June 9, 1864, at which time the Federal forces occupied Big Shanty. April 12, 1862, the Andrews Raiders [US] seized the locomotive "General" while train crew & passengers were breakfasting at the hotel.

Fortified by a stockade, it housed a Federal garrison from June 9 to Oct. 3, 1864, when it was captured by Confederate forces. Reoccupied by Federal troops it was maintained as a R. R. blockhouse until abandoned & burned by them, Nov. 14. 033-41 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954