Madison County (Fla)--History.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Gramling Civil War Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1971-129
Scope and Contents
The two items in this collection are a copy of a typescript made by Clifton Paisley from the original holograph diary and a biographical sketch of the author of the diary, Wilbur W. Gramling. The original of the diary, which the donor described as being in "small handwriting and some of it is illegible because the ink has badly faded," was found among the belongings of the late Owen Irvin Gramling Sr. of Tallahassee, founder of O. I. Gramling and Company and nephew of the author. The original has subsequently come into the possession of O. I. Gramling Jr. of Tallahassee.
Wilbur Gramling joined Company K of the 5th Florida Infantry Regiment, which eventually became part of a small...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1865; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/1971
Red Hills of Florida Collection
Collection — OS Box 1: Series Series 8
Identifier: MSS 1994-002
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of the background files, notes, correspondence, permission, maps, manuscripts, and other materials that were collected or created by Clifton Paisley during the writing of his work, Red Hills of Florida. Included among these items are biographical sources, census data, maps and surveys of the Red Hills region, letters to and from local organizations and persons, newspapers, and interviews. The majority of the collection consists of those materials which actually played a part in the publication of the book. These items include notes, manuscripts, galley proofs, camera ready copies, and photographs mainly dating from the 1970s...
Dates:
Created: 1820-1994
Smith Family papers
Collection — Box 157
Identifier: MSS 0-232
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of ten Smith family letters, thirty-three receipted invoices, one bill for tuition, and one diary, all dating between 1782-1864. The letters were chiefly among members of the Smith family and confined to family subjects, but several have educational value in that they represent the thinking of that period, the closeness of family, their religious nature, and in one case a letter by a young lady who moved from Rhode Island to Savannah, Georgia, writes back to her family in Rhode Island and tells of her impressions of the South. One very religious letter by James W. Smith of Thomasville, Georgia, dated 1864, to his uncle, Mr. Remington Smith of Pawtucket, Rhode...
Dates:
Created: 1782-1864; Other: Date acquired: 04/24/1956
West Yellow Pine Lumber Company Records, 1855-1916
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1-25
Abstract
The West Yellow Pine Company records include correspondence, letterpress books, time books, invoices, account records, lumber orders, lumber reports, and railway waybills. The collection also includes the records of the Madison Southern Railway, owned by the West Yellow Pine Company.
Dates:
Created: 1855 - 1916; Other: Majority of material found in 1900-1916
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