- Collection:
- Coastal Heritage Society, Central of Georgia Rail Road Collection, Carpentry Shop Ledger
- Title:
- Central of Georgia Rail Road Carpentry Shop Ledger, part 4
- Creator:
- Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia
- Date of Original:
- 1860/1899
- Subject:
- Account books--Georgia--Savannah
Scrapbooks--Georgia--Savannah
Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia
Railroads--Georgia--Savannah
Railroad repair shops--Georgia--Savannah
Railroads--Freight--Georgia--Savannah
Carpentry--Georgia--Savannah
Railroads--Employees
African American railroad employees--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah (Ga.)--Economic conditions--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Savannah (Ga.)--History--19th century
Railroad trains--Maintenance and repair
Forge shops--Georgia--Savannah
Railway mail cars--Georgia--Savannah
Artillery--Georgia--Savannah
Railroad passenger cars--Georgia--Savannah
Confederate States of America
Terminals (Transportation)
Machine shops--Georgia--Savannah
Telegraph stations--Georgia--Savannah
Slaves--United States
Slaves--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- ledgers (account books)
scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Contents of the fourth of five sections of a nineteenth-century ledger and scrapbook documenting work conducted at the Carpentry Shop, within the Savannah Shops complex of the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia in Savannah, Georgia. This section of the ledger/scrapbook dates from 1860 to 1864, during the Civil War period, and contains details and financial data pertaining to the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. Topics include: railroad passenger cars, mail cars, railroad and train maintenance, forges, artillery (gun chassis, platforms, and ammunition), white laborers, enslaved African Americans, the depot yard, the passenger shed, the machine shop, the telegraph office, facility repairs, and tasks such as pumping gas. This section of the ledger/scrapbook also includes details about work contracted to the Confederate States of America.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:chso_cgrc_rrl-d
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:chso_cgrc_rrl-d
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 130 pages
- Original Collection:
- Coastal Heritage Society, Central of Georgia Rail Road Collection, Carpentry Shop Ledger, 1991.54.1
- Holding Institution:
- Coastal Heritage Society (Ga.)
- Rights:
-
