Bill Moffat papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Bill Moffat papers
Creator: Moffat, William
Inclusive Dates: 1842-2019
Language(s): English
Extent: 8.75 Linear Feet (8 boxes, 1 oversized folder, and 1 portfolio)
Collection Number: ms4630
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Bill Moffat is a historian and preservationist specializing in the vernacular architecture of Georgia. During the 1970s and 1980s he photographed and documented houses, structures, and buildings in several counties throughout Georgia. Moffat also served as a preservation planner for the Northeast Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission.

Scope and Content

This collection contains research files compiled by Bill Moffat on the vernacular architecture of Georgia. The majority of papers are copied texts and brochures from historic sites. However, several original papers from the 1840s to 1890s are found throughout the collection.

Many of the photographs of structures were taken by Moffat during the 1980s and 1970s. Of note are original photographs collected by Moffat from buildings and individuals mentioned in the collection.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], [Bill Moffat papers, ms4630], Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Notes on the collection and transcript of Bill Moffat interview , 2019

 

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David C. Barrow, Demosthenian bench

 

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Bibb, pamphlets and brochures

 

1

3

Bibb, Ocmulgee National Park

 

1

4

Bibb, maps

 

1

5

Bibb

 

1

6

Bibb County, Fort Hawkins

 

1

7

Butts County

 

1

8

Butts, Indian Spring

 

1

9

Sword from Butts County documentation

 

1

10

Sword from Butts County, maps

 

1

11

Butts Department of Transportation (DOT) map

 

1

12

Butts, soil survey

 

1

13

Scull Shoals

 

1

14

Scull Shoals, maps

 

1

15

Scull Shoals vicinity

 

1

16

Scull Shoals vicinity, Greene

 

1

17

Scull Shoals vicinity, maps

 

1

18

Interviews, Reynolds Project

 

1

19

Oglethorpe

 

1

20

Oglethorpe, brochures

 

1

21

Oglethorpe, William H. Crawford

 

1

22

Oglethorpe, Gilmer house and Goosepond

 

1

23

Oglethorpe, Reed's Ku Klux Klan

 

1

24

Oglethorpe, Buffalo Lick, Devorsey

 

1

25

Indexes to History of Oglethorpe County and Ninety-Four Years

 

1

26

Oglethorpe map gazetteer

 

1

27

Terrell house, Putnam County

 

1

28

Warthen

 

1

29

Early Hill, Greene County

 

1

30

Coleman-Hogan House, national register nomination

 

1

31

Jefferson Hall, Greene County, national register nomination

 

1

32

Japanese relics

 

1

33

Oil portrait

 

1

34

Chronicles of the Canebrake

 

1

35

Glascock

 

1

36

Glascock, Rebecca Knighton

 

1

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Glascock County, Jimmy Carter

 

1

38

Greene, Greensboro vicinity

 

1

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Greene, Union Point vicinity

 

1

40

Greene, Crackers Neck and White Plains

 

1

41

Greene County, Penfield vicinity

 

1

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Greene, early settlements on the Oconee River

 

1

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Greene, Thomas Stocks' Oak Hill house and Richard Willis' Dover house

 

1

44

Greene, Jackson house and cemetary

 

1

45

Greene, Laura Alfriend and Tableau of the Confederate States

 

1

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Greene, Arthur F. Raper

 

1

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Greene, maps

 

1

48

Hancock

 

1

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Hancock, Mt. Zion and vicinity

 

1

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Hancock, Sykes-Treadwell Plantation

 

1

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Hancock, Granite Hill Plantation and vicinity

 

1

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Hancock, Rockby

 

1

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Hancock, Linton

 

1

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Hancock County, Conquered Banner sheet music

 

1

55

Hancock houses

 

1

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Hancock, maps

 

1

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Putnam, brochures

 

1

58

Putnam, miscellaneous

 

1

59

Putnam, census history

 

1

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Putnam, family histories

 

1

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Putnam, cemeteries

 

1

62

Putnam, Rockville and vicinity

 

1

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Putnam, Stanfordville

 

1

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Putnam, The Glades, B. F. Grant Forest

 

1

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Putnam, houses

 

1

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Putnam, Mills Springs

 

1

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Putnam, maps

 

1

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Putnam, slave narratives

 

1

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Putnam, Indians

 

1

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Putnam foxhunting

 

1

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Putnam, Eatonton factory

 

1

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Putnam in the war

 

1

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Putnam, March to the Sea, maps

 

1

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The Countryman, Joseph A. Turner

 

1

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Putnam County, Turnwold

 

1

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Putnam County, Union-Phoenix-Turnwold Academy

 

1

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Turnwold in the war

 

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Turnwold, vicinity, maps, and roads

 

1

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Joel Chandler Harris

 

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Putnam, William H. Seward Ward house

 

1

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Putnam, Uncle George Terrell

 

1

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Turnwold, Captain Isaac Turner

 

1

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Denhamville, history

 

1

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Denhamville, Putnam County

 

1

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Denham in the war

 

1

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Sherman's destruction of Denhamville

 

1

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Denham, C. S. Arsenal, Macon

 

1

88

Denham, Tanyard chimney's fish weathervane

 

1

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Denhamville, manufactures census

 

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Denhamville, population census and ledger index

 

1

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Denham, genealogical

 

1

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Denhamville, Putnam County, maps

 

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Humphriesville and environs census material, population

 

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Humphriesville and environs census material, agriculture

 

2

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Humphriesville and environs tax digests and related material

 

2

4

Humphriesville, maps and plats

 

2

5

Artifacts from Humphriesville and the River Road area

 

2

6

Humphries, genealogy, obituaries, and cemeteries

 

2

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Thomas S. Humphries

 

2

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Thomas S. Humphries and The Compromise of 1850

 

2

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River Road, cemeteries and obituaries

 

2

10

Redfield Cemetery report

 

2

11

River Road, crimes

 

2

12

Humphriesville and environs, miscellaneous

 

2

13

River Road area, Benjamin and Lavinia Hawkins, Thomas M. Ellis

 

2

14

River Road vicinity, schools and churches

 

2

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River Road settlement, roads, ferries, and mills

 

2

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Dames Ferry, Holton Ferry, and Popes Ferry

 

2

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Tom's Ford on the Ocmulgee River

 

2

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Tuskio-Micco path, route in River Road area

 

2

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River Road, Town Creek Indian site

 

2

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War 1861-1865, River Road area

 

2

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Jones County, secession, war, and reconstruction

 

2

22-24

Humphriesville, E.W. Hawes

 

2

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Humphriesville, Lowe-Hawes

 

2

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Humphriesville, Lowe-Hawes, publications

 

2

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Healy, publications

 

2

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Healy, miscellaneous

 

2

27

Healy, court case of slave Margaret and children

 

2

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Free and enslaved noted African-Americans in River Road area

 

2

29

Jones-Bibb counties, proposed canal on Ocmulgee River, water power of the United States, tenth census

 

2

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River Road, family histories

 

2

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Jones County, miscellaneous

 

2

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Fortville, Jones County

 

2

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Jones, Adam Carson-Cabiness-Hunt house

 

2

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River Road area, war of 1812

 

2

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Jones County, Department of Transportation (DOT) map

 

2

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Jones County, manufacturing census, large planters

 

2

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Soil survey of Jones County and related material

 

2

38

Civil War in Jones County, maps

 

2

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Post office maps

 

2

40

River Road, maps and plats by W.G.M, based on 1914 Jones County soil map

 

2

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Humphriesville, aerial maps

 

2

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River Road area, maps

 

2

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River Road, land speculation and developers

 

2

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Jones County and Bibb County, maps

 

2

45

Jones County, River North

 

2

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Fannie Thomas' house, photographs

 

2

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1938 survey of River Road

 

2

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River Road and Jones County, miscellaneous notes

 

2

49

Glascock

 

2

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Glascock, maps and related material

 

2

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Glascock, census data

 

2

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Glascock, kaolin

 

2

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Dismuke chairs

 

2

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Edward Thomas Dismuke

 

2

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Dismuke, census and genealogy

 

2

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Glascock, Pool sisters

 

2

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Jasper

 

2

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Butts, Seven Islands, maps and photographs

 

2

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Butts, Seven Islands

 

2

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Butts, Seven Islands, war

 

2

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Jasper County, maps

 

2

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Jasper County, brochures

 

2

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Jasper, Seven Islands

 

2

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Jasper, David K. Roach of Seven Islands

 

2

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Jasper, Seven Islands, maps

 

2

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Planters factory, Ocmulgee mills, Seven Islands, original pages from Georgia Travelers Protective Association

 

2

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Ocmulgee mills, letters

 

2

68

McDuffie

 

2

69

Tom Watson, McDuffie

 

2

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Sweetwater iron works, McDuffie

 

2

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McDuffie County, map

 

2

72

Wrightsboro, McDuffie

 

2

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McDuffie, soil survey

 

2

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McDuffie, a history

 

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Putnam

 

2

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Putnam, Kinchen-Little family

 

2

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Putnam, Kinchen-Little house, history and photographs

 

2

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Putnam, Philadelphia Church

 

2

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Taliaferro

 

2

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Taliaferro, Thomas Holley Chivers

 

2

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Crawfordville, Foster house

 

2

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Taliaferro, Sharon, Raytown, South Liberty Church, Wrightsboro Road, Locust Grove

 

2

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Taliaferro, Mendenhall, Macfie house

 

2

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Taliaferro, A.H. Stephens

 

2

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Warren

 

2

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Warren, Fountain Campground

 

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D.A. Jewell, Sr. residence, photographs

 

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Bowen-Jewell Company mill in Chickamauga, photograph

 

3

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Vera Birdsong Williams' photograph collection

 

3

4-5

Hancock

 

3

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Hancock, brochures

 

3

7

Hancock, Shoulder Bone Mill vicinity

 

3

8

Sparta, Hancock County, letters to Dr. E.M. Pendleton

 

3

9

Madison

 

3

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Warren

 

3

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Warren County, reconstruction

 

3

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Warren, great hall house, over mantle cottage

 

3

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Warren, Mount Pamona

 

3

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Warren, Dennis-Woodruff mill

 

3

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Warren, Beall Springs

 

3

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Hamburg mill community, store ledger

 

3

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Hamburg and vicinity

 

3

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Hamburg mill community, census for names on 1836 store ledger

 

3

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Hamburg, maps

 

3

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Washington County, Hamburg potteries

 

3

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Jewell history

 

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Jewell history and copies of miscellaneous manuscripts

 

3

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Jewell, clippings

 

3

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Jewell, Rock Mill Plantation

 

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Jewell, biographical and genealogical papers

 

3

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Jewell, miscellaneous

 

3

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Jewell, ledger material

 

3

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Jewell, census data

 

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Jewell, Gazetteer material and related items

 

3

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Jewell, river studies

 

3

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Jewell, interviews

 

3

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Pencil drawing of Bowen, Jewell, and Company store

 

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Jewell, maps and plats

 

3

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Georgetown

 

3

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Georgetown, maps

 

3

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Shoals of Ogeechee

 

3

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Mayfield, Hancock, Warren

 

3

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Johnson County, Laurens County, Spell diary

 

3

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Maps for Spell diary

 

3

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Spell diary, transcript

 

3

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Spell diary, original

 

3

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An Archaeological Survey of the Shoulderbone Tract, Hancock County

 

3

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Archaeological Testing on Reynolds Plantation, Greene County

 

3

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Archaeological Investigations at Buzzard Root, Taylor County

 

3

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Augusta, Confederate states powder works

 

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Augusta, Richmond County

 

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Baldwin

 

3

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Baldwin, brochures

 

3

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Clarke, Oconee

 

3

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Greene

 

3

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Hancock, Rockby, The Starry Crown

 

3

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Dr. James F. Barron and the McCarthy-Pope house, photographs

 

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Clinton materials

 

3

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Bunkley trial

 

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Jones County

 

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Griswoldville

 

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Griswold pistol factory relics

 

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Griswold revolvers, general information

 

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Griswoldville, maps

 

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Jones County, Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge (PWR) survey

 

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Cotton gin history

 

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Cook and Brother's Armory, Athens

 

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Vanishing sites of old Wilkes

 

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Research aids

 

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Newton County factory

 

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Curtwright factory, letters

 

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Curtwright factory, archaeological report

 

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Georgia textile mills

 

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Glascock, Rivers papers

 

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Cahawba, Alabama

 

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Middle Georgia Ramble file

 

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Lower and upper creek path, slide program

 

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Kups of Kauphy

 

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Georgia battlefield brochures

 

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Montgomery, Marion

 

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River Road settlement, correspondence

 

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Baldwin County, Tom's Ford on Oconee River

 

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Baldwin

 

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Baldwin, Scott-Carter-Furman house

 

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Scottsboro, Baldwin County, photographs found in the Scott-Carter house

 

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Baldwin, forts and early settlements on the Oconee River

 

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Baldwin, maps

 

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Columbia

 

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Columbia County, John Eubank Blanchard's farm journal

 

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Columbia County, map

 

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Elbert County

 

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Elbert, Petersburg

 

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Jasper

 

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Jasper, Alfred Cuthbert

 

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Jasper, David Adams

 

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Jefferson County

 

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Jefferson, Omaha Spring

 

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Johnson, Laurens, maps

 

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Johnson County

 

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Laurens

 

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Laurens, Governor Troup

 

4

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Lincoln

 

4

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Lincoln, McCorkle family

 

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Morgan

 

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Morgan County, Whatleys-Greggs-Waltons mill

 

4

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Morgan County, High Shoals factory

 

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Morgan, March to the Sea

 

4

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Newton

 

4

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Washington

 

4

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Washington, March to the Sea

 

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Washington County, map

 

4

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Wilkes

 

4

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Wilkes, Elbert, Anthony Shoals

 

4

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Wilkes, Joseph Belknap Smith

 

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Wilkes, Kettle Creek

 

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Birdges and ferries from T.R.R. Cobb's digest

 

4

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Middle Georgia

 

4

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Middle Georgia church history

 

4

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Miscellaneous

 

4

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Middle Georgia, maps

 

4

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Georgia maps, miscellaneous

 

4

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Georgia gristmills

 

4

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Georgia flag

 

4

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Georgia origins of the sacred harp

 

4

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Log house in Georgia

 

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Georgia militia districts

 

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July-Birdsong dogs

 

4

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Woodward's reminiscences, index

 

4

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Cotting's geological report

 

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Middle Georgia, erosion

 

4

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Gideon Lincecum autobiography

 

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Fort files, Goff collection

 

4

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Middle Georgia, March to the Sea

 

4

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Rziha maps, DeLaubenfels

 

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March to the Sea, manuscript maps

 

4

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Sherman in Putnam

 

4

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Seven Islands

 

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Seven Islands

 

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Bartram's report to Dr. Fothergill

 

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Bartram Trail, brochures and maps

 

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Trans-Oconee Republic

 

5

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John Lyon's journal

 

5

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Asbury's Georgia visits

 

5

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Upper creek path

 

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Lower creek path

 

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Tom's path, Toblers

 

5

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Creek Indians, Ben Hawkins

 

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Middle Georgia, early travel narratives with maps

 

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Laws of Creek Indian and miscellaneous

 

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Journal of commissioners running the line between state of Georgia and the Creek Nation

 

5

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Sunbury Road by Goff

 

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The River Road Settlement of Jones County, A Social and Economic History

 

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Eugenia Humphries

 

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Humphriesville and Jones County, negatives

 

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Humphriesville and River Road, photographs

 

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Jones County, Humphries farm on Upper River Road

 

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Photographs

 

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River Road settlement, Lowe brother's store at River Road and Clinton Road, photograph

 

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Lowe-Hawes, photographs

 

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Humphriesville, River Road, photographs

 

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Dames ferry, photographs

 

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River Road in Jones County, notebook

 

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Walker and Humphries store

 

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Clippings

 

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Humphries family original papers, 1842-1950

 

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Estate of Thomas S. Humphries, circa 1870s

 

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Robert T. Walker original papers, 1888-1891

 

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Day books, circa 1890s

 

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Land indenture, Humphries and McDonald, 1844

 

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Cases of slides, undated

Hancock, Putnam, Greene, Spell, Warren, Jewell, Denham, Turnwold, River Road settlement in Jones County, Thomas S. Humphries' plantation, Jones, Jasper, and Butts.

 

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Cases of slides, undated

Taliaferro, Morgan, Wilkinson, Oglethorpe, Washington, Elbert, McDuffie, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Baldwin, Lincoln, Newton, Oconee, Crawford, Madison, Richmond, and Wilkes.