While not incorporated as a separate community until 1861 (with boundaries being a circle with a one mile radius from Gould’s Corner -Walton Way and Milledge Rd.), Summerville was occupied before the turn of the 19th Century. Early residents included George Walton (signer of the Declaration of Independence, solider, senator, governor, and judge), John Milledge (soldier, governor, representative, and senator), Lord and Mrs. Sandwich (who ran Mount Salubrity School) and Thomas Cumming (patriarch of the Cumming clan of Augusta Canal and Mayoral fame), who welcomed General George Washington to the City of Augusta in 1791. ~ Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia, 1990.