- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Thomas Benton Dodgen home, Mableton, Cobb County, Georgia, ca. 1908]
- Date of Original:
- 1908
- Subject:
- Architecture--Georgia--Mableton
Domestic life--Georgia--Mableton
Portraits--Georgia--Mableton - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Mableton, 33.81872, -84.58243
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- "Cobb County, ca. 1908. Floyd Road at Moss (now Center) Street. Thomas Benton Dodgen home. Left to right: Narcissus Jenn Dodgen, Thomas Benton Dodgen, their son Louis A. Dodgen.
Mableton, Cobb County, Georgia, home of Thomas Benron Dodgen, on Floyd Road at Moss (now Center) Street, built in 1889. He, his son Louis A. Dodgen, and his wife, Narcissus Gan Dodgen, are in the picture, she being youngest daughter of State Senator John Gann, who represented Cobb County in 1842 when the State Capitol was in Milledgville.
T.B. Dodgen owned and operated a general store in Mableton, on Front Avenue, around the turn of the century, which he sold to M.A.J. Landers.
Narcissus Gann was born in the John Gann home near the covered bridge the Dodgen family, refugeed to Monroe, Ga., during the War Between the States, and upon returning home following the Battle of Ruff's Mill, she rode horseback, as a teen age girl, to Lithia Springs to borrow garden seed to plant a garden.
Louis A. Dodgen was 91 years of age March 8, 1980.
Thomas Benton Dodgen was a son of John Lenoard and Elizabeth Goodson Dodgen, who owned and operated Dodgen Mill on Nickajack Creek before and after the War Between the States."--from field notes - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_cob743
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:cob743
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
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- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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