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History of Richmond County (unfinshed manuscript); Genealogy; Letters

Scope and Contents This collection includes brief business histories and timelines for 26 businesses from the Augusta, Ga. area. The histories were collected by the Augusta Richmond County Historical Society for an event in the fall of 1988, entitled "Golden Business of Richmond County," which highlighted the business history of the area. The majority of the histories are brief typed timelines or historical narratives written by a company employee, though some companies provided informational pamphlets or...

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This collection is comprised of a single copy of a map depicting Augusta, Georgia's metropolitan region.

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The Augusta-Richmond County vertical files collection contains information on a range of local organizations, families, and individuals. Most files contain pamphlets, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and/or photocopies of historical documents. The collection is no longer being actively added to, but can serve as a historical resource for topics related to the history of the Augusta area.

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This collection is comprised of materials relating to the Coleman and Catlett families, collected by Dr. Warren Soleman in the course of geneaolgical research into the families. Collection materials include financial records, legal documents, and correspondence from various members of the Catlett and Coleman families, as well as the later materials of Dr. Warren Coleman, including his geneaology research materials, and correspondence relating to his genealogical research.

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This collection is comprised of geologic maps from 12 Georgia counties, including: McDuffie, Lincoln, Columbia, Glasscock, Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Richmond, Screven, Burke, Wilkes, and Taliaferro.

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This collection is comprised of a single copy of the "New road map of Richmond, Burke, Screven, Jenkins, Emanuel, and Bulloch Counties, S.E. Georgia. The map depicts roads in the above counties, with a scale in miles. It was published by the Hudgins Company in Atlanta, Georgia, 1911.

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The collection consists of clippings, letters, booklets, brochures, photographs, hand-written notes, largely about Augusta and Richmond County, but includes genealogies and materials about other subjects of interest to Mrs. Winter.

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Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee,  Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers

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This collection is comprised of the single copy of a map of Richmond County, Georgia, depicting property boundaries as defined by county land records as of 1777.

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Two bound books plus some loose papers of meeting minutes of the Richmond County Historical Society.

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This collection is comprised of 2 copies of a 1908 map of Richmond County, Georgia.

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The Richmond County Medical Society Alliance is composed of spouses of Richmond County Medical Society members. This collection includes papers written and presented by members of the Alliance for their “Research in the Romance of Medicine” series; annual reports, newsletters, yearbooks; state and national material; scrapbooks, and photographs and videos.

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1852 Richmond County, Georgia receipt for sale of three male slaves

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This collection is comprised of a single folder of research materials related to the establishment of the boundaries of Richmond County, and a paper written on the topic by Alex M. Hits.

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Records of individuals owning enslaved persons.  Many records note the names of the enslaved persons.

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Diploma was awarded to Sarah G. Stokes by the Public Schools of Richmond County, a high school Diploma from the Girl’s [Tubman] High School on June 28. 1878

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This collection is comprised of a single map of Richmond County, Georgia, created by Stoughton.