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Fruitland Nurseries (Augusta, Ga.)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Prosper Jules Alphonse Berckmans Collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS961
Scope and Contents of the Records The Prosper Jules Alphonse Berckmans Collection contains personal and business records pertaining to Prosper Jules Alphonse Berckmans, Sr. and other Berckmans family members. The collection documents the activities of Fruitland Nurseries, one of the first commercial horticultural nurseries in the South. The collection contains family records, including correspondence, journals, newspapers articles, and photographs. The collection also has business records of Fruitland Nurseries, including...
Dates: 1828-2000, undated

Prosper Jules Alphonse Berckmans landscape architectural drawings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS278
Scope and Content

This collection contains drawings that provide details of the land owned by the Berckmans family in both Belgium and Augusta, Georgia. Also part of the collection is a landscape drawing by P. J. Berckmans Company for an estate in Eatonton, Georgia and color landscape plans produced by the lawn and garden fertilizer company Vigoro.

Dates: 1852-approximately 1920

Tucker Family Bills and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS205
Scope and Content The majority of this collection includes monthly invoices, bills and other financial transactions initiated by Sarah Tucker after the death of her husband, Henry Holcombe Tucker. Almost all of the transactions involved businesses in downtown Atlanta. The collection provides insight into the lifestyle and monthly financial responsibilities of a wealthy widow in Atlanta during the 1890s. Included among Ms. Tucker’s purchases are groceries, dry goods, building supplies, labor, utility bills,...
Dates: 1877-1899, undated

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Horticulturists -- Georgia 2
Nurseries (Horticulture) -- Catalogs 2
Agriculture -- Georgia -- History 1
Augusta (Ga.) -- History 1
Dry-goods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1