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From the 1840s into the 1920s, three generations of the Sutton family ran this plantation crossroads of store, gin, and mill; after the war dozens of sharecropping families depended on its commissary, whose salvaged contents now fill a Fort Gaines museum.
Sutton's Crossroads is a historical marker in Fort Gaines, Clay County, erected in 2020. It is one of 19 historical markers documented in Clay County, among 63 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.6010, -84.8469 near Fort Gaines. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sutton, Warren, House (historic place), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Oakland High School, Enon Baptist Church Cemetery, and Enterprise Cemetery.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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