- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of court street, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, ca. 1900-1939?]
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1939
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Gordon County
Architecture--Georgia--Calhoun
Cities and towns--Georgia--Calhoun - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, Calhoun, 34.50259, -84.95105
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Calhoun, early 1930s. Court Street looking toward the Gordon County Courthouse. The courthouse was completed in 1889. The home seen atop the hill at the left was that of Dr. John H. Boston. It was known as Mount Alto. Contractor W. Laurence Hillhouse built the home in 1909. The J. Roy McGinty family later occupied it. Dr. Boston founded the Mount Alto Bedspread Company ca. 1920. He was a pioneer in the tufted bedspread industry in Gordon County.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor108
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor108
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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