Cornbread & Hoppin’ John
CORNBREAD & HOPPIN’ JOHN The Contributions of the Enslaved Community The influences for many of the Southern foods we have come to know, descend to us from colonial and antebellum slave quarters. Southern food is derived from a blending of European, Native American, and African origins realized at the hands of enslaved cooks. Southern [...]
Christmas 1921
Vintage Christmas Greeting Card 1922 Christmas 1921 The front page of the LaGrange Graphic, December 15, 1921, was devoted entirely to children’s letters to Santa. At the time, these were simple requests from children, however, looking back on these letters from today provides insight into the lives of children in this period. [...]
HDV Forklifts
HDV Forklifts This photo, from the cover of the October 1, 1951 Callaway Beacon, shows a line of new forklifts that had just recently been purchased for Callaway Mills with each forklift’s driver. The caption reads, “Drivers of Hyster lift trucks at HDV Division are (front to back) Tom Freeman and Johnny Ellison, Valway [...]
E. E. Willamson
Within our stacks, we have a small collection of just over thirty photographs. Surprisingly, these photographs dating to the late 1940s and early 1950s are not rendered in the black and white that is common to the period, but in glorious color. These photographs are a record of African-American life in the county as [...]
Dr. John Henry Jordan
Dr. John Henry Jordan The images show Dr. Jordan Henry Jordan, his wife, Mollie, and their son, Edward. In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. Dr. John Henry Jordan was born March 11, 1870 just outside of Hogansville to Berry and Isabella Jordan, [...]
Dorthey K. Harrison
Dorothy K. Harrison In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions and history of African-Americans in Troup County. So often, important people of color have slipped through the cracks of history. One of those people seemingly forgotten in the haze of history is Dorothy K. Harrison who was a champion of [...]
Black Drink
image shows the berries and foliage of the Yaupon holly While neither coffee—brewed from the seeds of shrubs in the genus Coffea—or tea—brewed from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis—are native to North America, the indigenous people got their caffeine from a drink known as the “Black Drink.” Made from the brewed [...]
Freedom Riders
Beginning in May of 1961, Civil Rights activists began staging protests against the enforcement of public bus integration in the South. Despite two U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing integration, many Southern states continued to enforce state and local laws requiring segregation. Protestors would board busses and travel through the South in integrated groups. Whenever [...]
