Historical Marker

Camp Recovery

Located at the intersection Shotwell and South Broad Streets, Bainbridge · Bainbridge · Decatur

Georgia marker

Inscription

CAMP RECOVERY. On the east side of Flint River, twenty-one miles southwest is the site of Camp Recovery, established during the First Seminole Indian War as a hospital base to which the sick soldiers from Fort Scott were sent to recover. A Federal Monument on the site marks the burial place of U.S. officers and soldiers who died during the hostilities in the Flint and Chattahoochee River Counties 1817-1821.

[U.S. Works Progress Administration Marker]

Location

AddressLocated at the intersection Shotwell and South Broad Streets, Bainbridge
CityBainbridge
CountyDecatur
StateGeorgia
Coordinates30.903800, -84.575470

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