Georgia -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest Vandiver - Campaign paper, 1958
Item — Box 6, Item: 14
Collection number: Item 14
Scope and Contents
Newspaper put out by Ernest Vandivier while campaigning for governor. Quote across the top of the page reads: "No mixing of the races while I am your governor -- Vandiver."
Vandiver was the Governor of Georgia from 1959. until 1963.
Dates:
1958
Folder 5: Walker Papers - January - April 1916
File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Collection number: 5
Scope and Contents
A letter to J.R. Malner. Letter is damaged and torn, unsure who sent it. Discusses political opponents with several mentions of black voters possibly being involved as delagates.A letter condemning the proposal to change a rural postal route to an automobile route.Letters discussing the court case of the United States v. R.C. Tygart.Requests for postmaster oppointments continue. Proposed bills.Soldiers Homes, a bill for relief of the Cohen...
Dates:
Created: 1913-1917
Judge Harley and His Boys: The Langdale Story by John E. Lancaster
Book — Box 2, Book: 71
Collection number: 71
Scope and Contents
Published in 2002. Signed by Harley Langdale, Jr., John, John Wesley Langdale III.
Dates:
Acquired: 2003-05-16
The History of Alma and Bacon County [PDF], 1984
File
Collection number: 51932a70-de2c-4dba-abb1-ead1c3d2103c
Overview
In 1914, Bacon County was created, and named for Senator Augustus O. Bacon, a distinguished politician of Georgia birth. In 1914 this newly created 'piney woods’ county and a handfull of pioneer settlers joined together to begin a long journey into history. Its destiny is interrupted now only long enough to record between the covers of this book the progression of past events out of which has come the Bacon County of today’s modern living. Bacon County, unlike Williamsburg, is not rich in...
Dates:
1984