- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of croquet players, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, 1903]
- Date of Original:
- 1903
- Subject:
- Croquet--Georgia--Calhoun
Women--Georgia--Calhoun
Recreations--Georgia--Calhoun - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, Calhoun, 34.50259, -84.95105
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Calhoun, 1903. Nellie Peters Black (Mrs. George Robinson) playing croquet with her nephew, Wimberly Peters on the lawn of the home which is part of Peters Farm. The home, seen in the background, is located where East Belmont Drive and Peters Street meet. Mrs. Black was the daughter of Richard Peters, who about 1830 purchased some 4000 acres in what was to become in 1850 Gordon County. He had come to Atlanta from Pennsylvania. He was a civil engineer and achieved prominence in Atlanta. During the Civil War the farm buildings were not destroyed and Union troops were housed there. The home was built after the war. Mrs. Black managed the farm as did other members of the Peters family over the years. In 1950 Burton J. Bell purchased the home and some 160 acres.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor187
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor187
- 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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