Scope and Contents The Smith papers document a family's accomplishments and thoughts over 200 years as Georgia grew from a near-wilderness to an agricultural area interspersed with cities to the late 20th century state whose capital was becoming a major metropolis. Among the dozens of types of records in the collection are letters, letter books, plantation account books, slave and freedmen records, legal documents, estate records, receipts, company records, land records, medical records, books, scrapbooks,...

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Description of the Frances B. Forrest and William Smith household kitchen in 1877 (the year of Frances' death), recollected later by Smith's grandchild, possibly a daughter of Ann Elizabeth Smith and James A. Park. An unusually detailed account of life on an 1870s farm with both white and African American workers in the Peavine Creek area of Catoosa County, Georgia.