These materials document property owned by the Eagle Manufacturing Company (later the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Company. They later passed to the Eagle & Phenix Mills when that entity was created after the bankruptcy of the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Company in 1898. The company eventually owned extensive property on both sides of the Chattahoochee River, mainly in Columbus, Georgia and Girard (later Phenix City), Alabama. There are also deeds for Alabama property outside the town of Girard in Lee and Russell Counties as well as in Eufaula, Alabama. The deeds are divided by state and thereunder chronologically by date of signature. Many of these conveyances have annotations about later sales or other transfers of ownership due to estate settlements, legal claims or other reasons. There may also be later dates of recording in deed books, occasionally several years later, or notarial or other certifications of copies, etc. The date used for filing is the date of the original signing of the agreement. Thus a deed dated 1846 between two private individuals which might have an endorsement saying that is acquired by the Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company in 1882 will nevertheless be filed in the 1846 folder. Of special interest are the so-called “Water Lots” in the city of Columbus, Georgia. The state of Georgia owns the entire Chattahoochee River, including both banks. In 1841 the Georgia General Assembly established the City of Columbus Water Lots Company which was created to market the lots. Each water lot had 72 feet of river frontage and included not only the land on the Georgia bank of the Chattahoochee River but also the use of the water, the bed of the river and even the Alabama riverbank up to the high water mark. The Water Lot Company then sold the lots with the goal of spurring the economic development of the City of Columbus. In addition to owning most of the Water Lots, the Eagle & Phenix eventually owned land on both sides of the river but, as noted above, only the Georgia side has access to the river. These deeds, and various related legal documents such as the agreements necessary to erect dams and other structures on and in the river, are filed in chorological order. Water Lot deeds are noted in the finding aid. These deeds are key to tracing the histories of those business which relayed on access to the river for power as well as for transport.