The monument, which is a 6-foot (1.8 m) granite historical marker, honors the county residents who, in 1933, helped a local farmer to rescue a pig of his that had fallen down a 40 ft (12 m) dry well.

In 1933, during the Great Depression, Bartow Barron, a farmer from Washington County, Georgia, lost his Duroc pig, which he was raising for meat for the winter.

[1] About 60 years after the event, Harold Lawrence, a local priest at First Methodist Church in nearby Milledgeville, Georgia, was collecting stories for a book of poetry about the region, Southland and Other Poems of the South, when a member of congregation told him about the pig story and took him to the location of the still-standing abandoned well, which by the 1990s had become a pine plantation.

[1] As of 2017, the monument is maintained by the descendants of the people who were involved in the 1933 event, as well as by several professors from Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville.

[2][4] The slab bears the following inscription:[1] ON THIS SPOT IN 1933 DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION NEIGHBORS OF A FARMER NAMED BARTOW BARRON JOINED TOGETHER TO RESCUE HIS PIG FROM A DRY WELL.