Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This collection includes an Elbert Couny, Georgia, deed from Dionysius Oliver and wife Mary Ann to John Oliver, 1793; deed between John Oliver, Granville Co., NC, and John Oliver, Elbert County, Georgia, 1800; and Elbert County deed from Dionysius Oliver and wife Jane to John Oliver, 1805 and 1806. Letters Testamentary and an attached will, 1864, are for Thomas W. Thomas. Genealogical data and a partial, unidentified letter are also included.

Correspondence, questionnaires, telephone interview notes, article manuscripts, reference material, and a very few photographs collected in the process of researching the history of Georgia's vanishing one-room schoolhouse buildings for an article in the GEORGIA JOURNAL.

Includes 1898 club charter for Fulton County, Georgia, and membership list; membership applications arranged by name of ancestor; and a biographical narrative on General Lucius J. Gartrell of Wilkes County, Georgia, later of 7th Regiment. Georgia Volunteers.

Records included are an early land division of the island by Bryan Morel and others and inventories of slaves held. There is also an 1863 Civil War bond for 1000 dollars. Related maps are found with the archives' land records.

Letter to Norris' mother from the Point Lookout, Maryland, prisoners camp, August 14

An 1863 letter from Sallie Marsh in Cartersville, Bartow County (Cass County), Georgia, to her brother, Cadet C. H. Marsh, who was enrolled in the Georgia Military Institute. Two letters (1898 and 1905) from Dr. J. S. Todd and Robert Rodgers of Atlanta to Carrie Marsh (Mrs. B. R.) Padgett, another Marsh sister, concern data and memories of the long dead cadet.

Announces the sale by auction of lots in downtown Palmetto, Fulton County, Georgia, December 6, showing a drawing of the lots bounded by Oak, Toombs, Church, Plum, and Maypop Streets and Highland Avenue. Original size 24 1/4" x 18 1/4". "No bids from colored people will be confirmed."

These reports contain narrative and statistical information describing the activities of the Board for the years listed below. The reports vary some in their content but they all have a statistical summary of receipts and expenditures and most of them have a list of persons whom they have released from prisons under their jurisdiction.

Collection contains four record books, 1906-1925, which list and evaluate course work and practical experience of students at the sanitorium. There is also a folder of mixed correspondence, requests for records, and a brief history of the Alumnae Association's first meeting.

This series includes correspondence, reports, research notes, and some publications. The bulk of the material is concerned with the program to erect historical markers in Georgia. Included are suggestions for possible markers and inscriptions for marker candidates. Some of the files deal with the Alexander Stephens State Park. Also included among the files is a 155 page report by a Dr. George Raffalovich, It Communal Experiments in Georgia."

This series contains correspondence of the assistant to the director and some other parties (director, engineers, etc.) concerning specific parks and the operation of the parks. Subjects discussed include: construction and maintenance of various park facilities and roads; placement of signs; attendance records; requisitioning of equipment; soil analyses, etc.

This series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, reports, and state parks’ weekly expenditure reports during Struble’s tenures as Assistant to the Director and Deputy Director. These documents pertain to routine park business and administrative decisions and directives concerning such matters as regulations for park patrons, property lines, personnel, new construction procedures, maintenance, replies to inquiries, etc.

This series contains the general correspondence of the director. In addition to regular park business and replies to routine inquiries, subjects treated include conservation, planning of new sites, expansion of recreational facilities and other projects.

This series consists of "yellow copies" of director's correspondence.

This series contains duplicates of the Director's correspondence which includes replies to inquiries and comments from park patrons and some letters relating to personnel matters, road and sign maintenance, recommendations concerning park facilities, etc.

These records from the office of former directors include correspondence, minutes of meetings of professional organizations, reports, brochures, proposals from new projects, memorandums, etc.

This series contains general office correspondence. Subjects treated are maintenance personnel, inspections, requisitions, fiscal arrangements, public relations and other aspects of park administration. Correspondence also includes replies to invitations and inquiries.

This series contains: (1) specifications for restoration projects, (2) specifications for construction projects, (3) correspondence and memorandums pertaining to specific research projects, (4) maps and plats, (5) legal documents, (6) news reports and publicity statements, (7) gift and loan documents, (8) microfilm inventories, (9) bids and appraisals, (10) inven­tories of furnishings, (11) dedication ceremony plans, and (12) annual reports on specific sites and related documents.

These published annual reports are very brief. A typical volume might contain the following chapters: (1) Organization and Administration; (2) Growth of Park System; (3) Recreation Programs; (4) Participation in National Youth Corps Program; (5) Land Acquisition; (6) Parks to be Opened, Transferred, Leased; (7) Land and Water Conservation Fund; (8) Major Projects Completed or Underway during Year, Listed by Park.

The Historic Preservation Section evaluates historic preservation certification applications of properties being considered for federal historic preservation tax incentives. Files include applications, sometimes called either a "Historic Preservation Certification Application" or a "Rehabilitated Historic Property Application," correspondence regarding the application, before and after photographs, floor plans, and exterior elevations of the structure.