Year Erected: 1993

Marker Text: Charles Holmes Herty, one of America’s outstanding chemists, was born near this site on December 4, 1867. He spent his early life in Milledgeville where he attended the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College (now Georgia Military College). Later he studied at the University of Georgia and Johns Hopkins University. Aided by his efforts, American chemistry became a giant industrial enterprise, and the Georgia pine became a valuable raw product in this new industry.

Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2016