Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials include: city and county records; family papers; business-related materials; Civil War records; military records; biographical sketches; transportation records; records of local institutions such as The Bradley Theater, Fort Benning, Historic Columbus Foundation; various textile mills; and notable local people such as poet and physician Francis Orray Ticknor, Tom Darby, the Benning Family, the Boykin Family, a riverboat pilot named Will Carpenter, and others. Most of the...

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Newspaper advertisement regarding land in Venezuela offered for sale to southern planters seeking to emigrate and an invoice from Thomas Gilbert & Co. of Columbus to Henry M. Price for 82 dollars for running the ad (January 18, 1865); a letter from Dr. Joseph B. Mahan regarding the timing of the Battle of Columbus (August 21, 1958)

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These materials include: city and county records; family papers; business-related materials; Civil War records; military records; biographical sketches; transportation records; records of local institutions such as The Bradley Theater, Fort Benning, Historic Columbus Foundation; various textile mills; and notable local people such as poet and physician Francis Orray Ticknor, Tom Darby, the Benning Family, the Boykin Family, a riverboat pilot named Will Carpenter, and others. Most of the...

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Statement of business and settlement of accounts of the steamer Shamrock (June 18, 1868) and a newspaper clipping with an interview with Will Carpenter, a retired Chattahoochee riverboat pilot (1950s?)

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Newspaper clippings regarding Dr. Gorrie, physician and inventor of the ice machine