Gwinnett County (Ga.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Erna Lee Mason papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1234
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an unbound scrapbook and records collected by Erna Lee Mason about her farm and the Mason family. The scrapbook includes photographs, deeds, correspondence, brochures, and ephemera. Farm records document maintenance and finances, such as acreage reports to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and tree upkeep. The collection also includes newspaper clippings about the Spanish-American War, Glover Cleveland’s presidency, and President Roosevelt’s economic policies.
Dates:
1878-1985, undated
Fulton, Gwinnett, and Walton County legal documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS128f
Scope and Content
This collection includes property deeds, abstracts of title, warranty deeds, loan deeds, bonds, resident petitions, claims court cases, wills, and insurance documents presented in the courts of Fulton, Gwinnett, and Walton counties in Georgia.
Dates:
1860-1948
Mitchell and Mitchell real estate records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS448
Scope and Content
This collection contains real estate records used by the Mitchell and Mitchell law firm. The bulk of the collection are abstracts of title that track a property's legal history. Most of the abstracts are for Fulton County residences, but some document businesses; railroads; churches and cemeteries; streets; and neighborhoods. In addition to Fulton County, there are abstracts from Cobb, DeKalb, Bartow, Campbell, Cherokee, Clayton, Clinch, Floyd, Gwinnett, and Milton counties. The collection...
Dates:
1849-1958, undated
Thomas Maguire papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS145
Scope and Content
The majority of the Thomas Maguire papers revolves around plantation records from 1834 to 1876. There are two ledgers Maguire kept from 1834-1838, and 1838-1839 with chronological lists of purchases of various quantities of supplies. An account book from 1883 to 1884 contains similar information. A third account book belonged to John E. and James H.C. and recorded shipments of goods in rleation to their mill from 1879-1890. Another account book from 1850 is almost completely in short hand....
Dates:
1829-1949, undated