James Gardner Account Books

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS-148

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of business sales ledgers from a local business with two locations in Petersburg and Augusta, Georgia. These ledgers document sales, debts, and payments between 1796-1799.

Dates

Created: 1796, 1799
Other: Date acquired: 11/02/1989

Conditions Governing Access

No current access restrictions on this collection. Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Augusta University Special Collections & Institutional Archives is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research purposes only. Materials within the collection are subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Augusta University Special Collections & Institutional Archives may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Biographical / Historical

Not much is currently known on James Gardener and his businesses in the Augusta area.

Petersburg, Georgia, was a prominent frontier boomtown in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but it is now a ghost town. Established in 1786 at the confluence of the Broad and Savannah rivers in Elbert County, it faded by the 1830s and was ultimately submerged in the early 1950s by the creation of Clarks Hill Lake (now J. Strom Thurmond Lake).