Year Erected: 1953

Marker Text: Home of Joseph Watters (1792 - 1866), pioneer settler in Floyd County; an admirer of Andrew Jackson, he named it 'Hermitage.' A settlement of that name is 1mi. S. E.

May 17, 18, 1864: Brig. Gen. K. Garrard's (2d) div. of Elliott's Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, [US] moved down this road from near Calhoun to strike the Rome R.R. west of Kingston.

Operating on the right wing of McPherson's Army of the Tennessee, [US] Garrard turned S.E. here & reached Barnsley's ~ noon, May 18, in advance of McPherson's troops which had turned E. at McGuire's, 3mi. N.E.