Abstract

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

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This collection is comprised of a single volume anonymous diary. The diary includes a first hand account of the Charleston earthquake of 1886.

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.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, drafts of legal papers, newspaper clippings, informational booklets, working papers, and other materials related to the Augusta-Richmond County Merger Charter Committee that attempted to merge the city of Augusta and Richmond County into a single governmental entity during the 1970s. The collection tracks the development of the strategic plan to merge the city with the county, along with vital documentation that tracks the major...

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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 Most files contain pamphlets, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and/or photocopies of historical documents.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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Augusta-based court docket that contains common law, equity, appeal, motion, Garnishes, Claims & Illegality Courts. From 1869-1870.

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A City of Augusta court docket that documents criminal cases, dates, and actions of the court.

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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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This collection is comprised of two boxes of the papers of the Gardner family and includes legal documents and correspondence.

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This collection is comprised of the single land deed conveying lots of land from John Milledge to Thomas Flournoy.

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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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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.