Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of civil and criminal case files involving: (1) Prossessory warrants (2) Caveats (3) Laborers' liens (4) Magistrates summons (5) Summons of garnishment (6) Actions on accounts (7) Suits on accounts (8) Attachments (9) Distress for rents (10) subpoenas (11) complaints (12) Judgments (13) Receipts for court costs.

This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of civil and criminal case files involving: Debts, Actions of drafts, Equities, Actions of defendants, Actions on accounts, Complaints, Petitions and bonds and orders for renewal, Judgments, Criminal warrants, and Grand jury presentments.

Recollections, letters, photographs, and other papers generated by the family of Taylor McKee, who grew up southeast of Atlanta in what is now DeKalb County, Georgia, before and during the Civil War. His older brothers, Samuel Payne, William Martin, and Madison Church McKee, served in the 18th and 22nd Georgia Regiments of the Confederacy.

This collection includes four letters from G. O. Megarity to his family while he was serving in Phillips' Legion GA Vols., Co. C, during the latter half of 1864. The 1870 letter is from his brother, J. A. Megarity, in Arkansas, whose friend Lee shot a African American and it was thought that Lee would be executed by hanging. Also included is an 1846 Milledgeville letter that mentions Archibald Magarity's land grant in Cobb County, Georgia.

"Recollections of My Boyhood: the Picnic at Pittman's Mill," occurring around 1895 in Clarke County, Georgia.

This vivid typescript memoir, covering 1840-1865, was compiled by the general's daughter from his diaries and letters. Disasters continually struck the young Gardner on his travels north to West Point Military Academy, then southwest to serve in the Mexican War and California, and finally as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War. Among the interesting people he met and described were Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Mary E. Walker, M.D.

!987, A Short History of Bainbridge (5 copies)

This series includes reports, studies, memorandums and similar documents which are related to onsite and other manpower appraisals and staffing studies, many of which often include comments and justifications for conclusions reached. The records document one of the chief functions of the Manpower Division of Central State Hospital in its unceasing search for improved management practices within the various branches of the vast hospital complex.

These policy and procedure memorandums are circular letters issued by the Central State Hospital to all employees outlining new policies and procedures.

This series contains the Records Management Directives released by the Superintendent of the Hospital to all Department, Division, Unit and Section Heads since the advent of the program. Several have been amended or superseded subsequent to their original release date. Most are numbered and dated, but some are of a general nature as their titles indicate and are not numbered.

This is a quarterly newsletter of the Division of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. A typical issue numbers eight pages in length and contains brief articles on such subjects as deinstitutionalization programs, alcoholism services, changing roles of the day training center, mobile mental health clinics, news of Division personnel, recommended readings, training sessions pending, office humor and a guest editorial contributed by an expert in the field.

The Mental Health Division of the Department of Human Resources was created in 1972. This division was formerly part of the Georgia Department of Public Health. The Act of March 26, 1958 created the division for administrative purposes. It currently is composed of Central State Hospital, the Georgia Retardation Center, Gracewood State School and Hospital, the Georgia Mental Health Institute and other hospitals in the Department of Human Resources.

This is the newsletter of the Institute. Researchers interested in other publications of the Institute should consult Record Groups 26-25-99, and 82-5-33.

This weekly publication is prepared by the staff members of the Georgia Mental Health Institute and includes news from the North Georgia Community Mental Health Center, The Northeast Georgia Community Mental Health Center, the Gwinnett-Rockdale Mental Health Service and the North DeKalb Mental Health Center. The publication is primarily an account of the activities of the staffs of the above mentioned institutions and the professional activities in which they take part.