"Hall's Knoll": Home of Dr. Lyman Hall

Home-site of Dr. Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the First Continental congress, governor of Georgia, member of Midway Congregational church near here. Hall was born in Wallingford, Conn. on April 12, 1724, and graduated from Yale University in 1747. Dr. Hall moved to the Puritan Colony at Dorchester, S.C. in 1757 and after those Puritans had established themselves here in Saint John's Parish in the Province of Georgia, he moved to this place and became the leading physician of his time. He died on Oct. 19, 1790, and was buried on a bluff overlooking the Savannah River. In 1848, his body was re-interred in Augusta with that of George Walton, another Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence, beneath the Signers Monument, a granite obelisk.