Franklin Heard
In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. From 1949 to 1968, Callaway Mills published the Callaway Beacon, a regular newsmagazine for its employees. Within the magazine’s pages are profiles and highlights of many of the mill’s employees as well as announcements of marking their private [...]
Sweet as a Georgia Peach: the introduction of peaches into Georgia
This page of Mrs. Hill's Practical Cookery and Receipt Book offers just a few of many peach recipes. TCA collections Botanists believe that peaches are native to northwestern China. By the time of the Roman Empire peach trees grew in the Mediterranean region. The scientific name, Prunus persica, means Persian apple, indicating [...]
Records: From Colonial Era to Prohibition Era
This letter from the Marquis de Lafayette is a simple statement regarding supplies but bears his signature. It was donated to TCA in 2018. When you work for an archival repository all kinds of people will ask to give you things to put into the collections. I have been stopped walking into [...]
Changing Clothes, Changing Fashion
My grandmother was a fabulous seamstress. As a housewife, she stitched many of my clothes, and almost all the clothes of my mother and aunt until they were no longer in her home.I have fond memories of sitting at her kitchen table sketching dresses for my dolls. Perhaps, that is where my love of [...]
A Scrap of the Past: Scrapbooks within TCA Collections
This flower and scrap are part of the scrapbook of Ellen Rebecca Pattillo Callaway. TCA Collec-tions, Accessions #MS-107. Troup County Archives holds dozens of scrapbooks ranging from the Victorian Era to modern day. Each one is unique, yet they share common elements. By definition, they are bound albums filled with paper ephemera. [...]
Lafayette in LaGrange: A Revolutionary Banquet
The Historical Society’s Banquet, themed around the remarkable Marquis de LaFayette, was an unmitigated success. We added two additional tables this year and still the event was, again, a “sell-out.” Held on August 4, 2017, at Del’avant, the evening kicked off with social time from 6:30 to 7:30. Executive Director Shannon Gavin Johnson welcomed [...]
