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Augusta's literary Hayne Circle raised this 1898 monument to poet, congressman, and lawyer Richard Henry Wilde, Dublin-born and best remembered for the elegiac lyric 'My Life Is Like the Summer Rose,' written for a brother killed in a duel.
Richard Henry Wilde Monument is a historical marker in Augusta, Richmond County, erected in 1896. It is one of 148 historical markers documented in Richmond County, among 249 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.4742, -81.9689 near Augusta. The nearest cataloged historic site is 4th Infantry (Ivy) Division (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Veterans of 1898-1902, Bell System at Augusta, Georgia, and Samuel Hammond.
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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